[Damse]

Last week my XFX 9800 GTX was having slight frame rate issues so I suspected that the fan wasn't ok, and my suspicion turned out to be correct after I took a closer look, so went to my retailer and told him that it needed repair or I could get my money back, because I was kind of ticked off since the card wasn't even 2 months old, he took it in and told me he would exchange it for a Gainward Bliss 9800 GT Golden Sample with 1 GB of ram.

I was surprised to see that it was very overclockable and was already factory over clocked in the first place, so he convinced me to give it a go, and after I read some reviews on this card I saw that it matched the GTX when overclocked by just 50 Mhz, well to tell you the truth I was always an XFX fan boy but the malfunction of my last XFX card has brought into a new position I am very pleased with this Gainward card and since I got a 100 bucks in return for exchanging my old card for this one I consider it a bargain, note my old 9800 GTX was the standard edition.
And to top it all off I just spent my salary on new hardware including 1 extra GB of ram and a new CPU [IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/DAMIRC%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif[/IMG]Thinking now I could have used the money for something else!? [IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/DAMIRC%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif[/IMG]

But the bottom-line is that I have found Gainward’s cards to be very well made so for everyone who considers a GPU upgrade and has a budget be sure to check this card out, because it really performs fantastic for the money.

[Hybr!d]

If you want to link to images they need to be hosted online, you cannot link direct to images on your PC.

[Damse]

Darn it! I somehow knew that would happen alright I'll try again then

[Hybr!d]

http://www.mediafire.com/

Upload your pics there (its free) then link to them using the img tags.

[Damse]

This is the 9600 GT version but it looks the same on the outside, only the box art is different.

Here is a review - http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...8848&Itemid=40

[Hybr!d]

Nice review does it perform better than your XFX 9800 GTX?

[thingie2]

looks like a nice card, How does it do?

[Damse]

To my big surprise it performs really well better than my standard XFX 9800 GTX, I can't say how good it would fair against the tripple XXX editions and what not, but its memory of 1 GB is enough to make it compare with every GTX. I found it to bee really cool even when overclocked to the max, I get a better read on framerates with fraps with this card in crysis than I got with my old GTX, for me its 5-7 frames faster than before? Which I consider a great thing since I got this cheaper than the GTX, saved me some money too.

[thingie2]

Sounds like a win-win situation then, but I suppose you would expect that if you get your card replaced because it was faulty

[Damse]

It wasn't faulty when I had bought it, and I'm comparing the FPS when the GTX was working normally, so it's still faster than my old card.