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Gainward Bliss 9600GT Dynamic Duo

The Slaughter House

Written by Firefox and filed under Reviews > GPUs & Graphic Cards
Published on April 7, 2008, 1:34 am

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For this review, we opt to use not just a QX9650 but one that's been placed under water cooling and overclocked to a cool 4.41GHz (420MHz x 10.5) alongside Corsair CM3X1024-1800C7D blazing away at DDR3-1680/ 6-7-6-17. All of these supported by an ASUS P5K3 Deluxe platform to ensure that the graphics performance does not get bottlenecked by the rest of the system. For electronic juice, we had a SilverStone Olympia power supply packing a whopping 1.2kW of power and a Dell 30" monster ensured that we could rev up the resolution and really put these cards to the test. Pictures of the respective cards in the setup after the break.

Gainward 9600GT setup
First up, the not-so-regular 9600GT from Gainward.

Gainward 9600GT Golden Sample setup
The Golden Sample placed on the bench.

As for the benchmark setup in more detail, take a peek below.

  • Intel QX9650 running at 4.41GHz (10.5 x 420MHz)
  • ASUS P5K3 Deluxe
  • Corsair CM3X1024-1800C7D running at (1680MHz, CL6-7-6-17)
  • 2 x 80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
  • Dell 3007WFP LCD
  • SilverStone Olympia 1200W PSU
  • Windows Vista Ultimate
  • Intel Chipset Driver 8.3.1.1009
  • NVIDIA Forceware 174.16 WHQL

Now that we have gotten through that, lets take a look at how the cards stack up in the ever popular FutureMark 3DMark benchmarks.