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XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO REVIEW

"XFX GeForce 9600 GSO also featuring MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC. The XFX GeForce 9600 GSO has a 16% lower clock speed, 8% higher memory speed and 224 less pixel shaders compared to the MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC. Software used for testing was Quake Wars and Unreal Tournament 3."

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO


SYSTEM INFORMATION
VIDEO CARD XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO
MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC
PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON64 X2 4800
MOTHERBOARD ECS NFORCE4 A939
ATI DRIVER CATALYST v8.10 WHQL
NVIDIA DRIVER FORCEWARE v177.83 WHQL
MEMORY 2 x 1GB OCUK PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP

QUAKE WARS

NORMAL QUALITY

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO155
MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC162

HIGH QUALITY

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO94
MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC98

EXTREME QUALITY

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO60
MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC62

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC

COMMENT - "XFX GeForce 9600 GSO loses to the MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC by 5% with Quake Wars."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3

NORMAL QUALITY

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO132
MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC138

HIGH QUALITY

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO98
MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC101

EXTREME QUALITY

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO66
MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC68

XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO MSI RADEON HD 3850 OC

COMMENT - "XFX GeForce 9600 GSO loses to the MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC by a slim 4% with Unreal Tournament 3."

FINAL RESULT

COMMENT - "The XFX GeForce 9600 GSO performed much better than was expected against the MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC. However the XFX GeForce 9600 GSO was beaten by the MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC by a slim 5%. If the MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC was not the Overclocked version then I am sure that the XFX GeForce 9600 GSO would of won. The XFX GeForce 9600 GSO was able to use Normal, High and Extreme Quality settings with all of the games we used for tested which is very impressive indeed. The Final Result was so close between the XFX GeForce 9600 GSO and MSI Radeon HD 3850 OC that you can pick either and be guaranteed great gaming performance so pick which is the cheapest."
XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO SCORES 8/10!
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XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - XFX GEFORCE 9600 GSO INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, CALL OF DUTY 4 AND FEAR
PAGE 3 - QUAKE WARS AND UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3

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