Manli Geforce 9600OC 512MB GDDR3 Graphics Card Review

This time Manli released their new product the Manli Geforce 9600OC 512MB GDDR3 to enable them compete in the mainstream market. This graphic card is using the 9600 GT chipset, which had been downgraded on the stream processor from 96 core to 48 core but with overclocked core and memories.

This graphic card is already equipped with Arctic Cooling HSF to overcome the heat during workload. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come with steel holder to keep the graphic card straight. The effect is that the graphic card looks a bit bent, even though it doesn’t interfere with its performance.

The card is stable enough at testing. Chip magazine tried to test it by playing Company of Heroes with 1024 x 768 screen resolution. It can be said that the card could play the game at medium setting.

Looking at the test results it can be said the card is quick. Even though it only has 48 Streaming Processors the Overclocking did quite an effect and overall it offers a very good performance. Another testing using CUDA shows a good performance that would make it suitable for playing with images with Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Conclusion:

The Manli Geforce 9600OC 512MB GDDR3 is a card with good performance. A good choice for its class and it comes with very good HSF.

Specifications:

Chip: NVIDIA Geforce 9600OC ™

Interface: PCI Express x16

Memory: 512 MB

Core Clock: 650 MHz

Memory Clock: 900 MHz

Shadder: 1625 Mhz

HDTV output: Available

DVI output: Available

HDMI output: Not Available

Genius Memory: GDDR3

Memory interface: 256-bit

Package: Quick Guide, CD Driver, HDMI Donggle, DVI, Donggle, SPDIF, PCI Converter

Benchmark:

3DMarks Vantage : P4175

Company of Heroes DX9: 59.8

Company of Heroes DX10: 33.7

F.E.A.R.: 143

Quake 4: 155.7

This product is tested with this tested system:

Mainstream Mobo: MSI P35-NEO2 FIR

Extreme Mobo: ASUS Maximus

ATI Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD3870

NVIDIA Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT

Memory: Corsair DDR2-PC6400, DDR2-PC8500, DDR3

Hard Disk: Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200RPM, Raptor

Power Supply: Tagan 700W, 800W, 1100W

Flash Memory: Kingston UFD, SDHC, SD, MicroSD, CF

Keyboard & Mouse: Genius USB, optical

Optical Drive: AOpen DVD-RW 2012S

Cooling System: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7Pro/64Pro dan Accelero X1/X2

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