The NVIDIA GeForce 9 generation features a couple of low-cost cards, among which you will find the GeForce 9600 GSO. This card is positioned above the GeForce 9500 GT but it sells at a price similar, or a bit lower than the GeForce 9600 GT. We've seen many new cards this month, but many of those were just rebranded old stuff. Sadly, the GeForce 9600 GSO is not an exception to that rule as this card is nothing but the old GeForce 8800 GS with a fancy new name. Many of you probably never heard of the GeForce 8800 GS, as only a couple of partners such as ASUS and XFX incorporated it into their offer. Though now the rebranded GeForce 9600 GSO is more widely available. - FudZilla

Inno3D iChiLL 9600 GSO Xstriker3 Version Review

Inno3D decided not to waste this opportunity so now you can find the GeForce 9600 GSO cards in their low-cost offer. In order to draw some attention to this card, well Inno3D used the Xstriker3 cooler, which in turn enables for easy overclocking. The GeForce 9600 GSO found its place in Inno3D's iChiLL series famous for good thermal characteristics and quality of materials used. The Inno3D iChiLL series is aimed at enthusiasts with slightly deeper pockets, but who are willing to sacrifice some of their cash for top quality. The Xstriker3 cooler will surely be something that will make& you remember this graphics card.

The black cooler looks quite stylish with a white fan and gold TV-out and DVI connectors. In this case good looks is coupled with efficiency, and the cooler is good enough to enable for easy overclocking of the G92 core. For those who want a bit more power straight out of the box, Inno3D did a good job overclocking this card from default 550MHz to 610MHz core clock speed. However, we were a bit mystified as to why stream processors were left at default 1375MHz. In order to further enhance performance this card got a memory boost too. Reference speed of 1600MHz is overclocked by 100MHz and now runs at 1800MHz speed.

We removed one small black heatsink that keeps the memory modules cooled and found the mentioned Samsung memory. The heatsink in question is cooled by the air from Xstriker3 cooler that covers all the memory modules. The GeForce 9600 GSO is a card with a strange 192-bit memory interface, which results in unusual memory quantity. In this case it's 768MB of GDDR3 memory, while weaker models have half this number, meaning 384MB. The G92 graphics core is built in 65nm and it puts 96 stream processors at your disposal which is higher than the GeForce 9600 GT graphics card version.

Inno3D sent us their GeForce 9600 GSO graphics card and this card comes with an excellent Xstriker3 cooler which is sure to provide some nice overclocking potential. The cooler doesn't get loud, is very acceptable and it looks really good. This card packs 768MB of GDDR3 memory and it comes with a 192-bit memory interface. Under the cooler you will find a 65nm G92 core with 96 unified shaders and 12 raster operating units. For those who don't want to trouble themselves with overclocking, Inno3D already did it for you as it runs at 610MHz core clock speed. To make things more interesting, Inno3D included a gift game.

With an overclocked core, and memory at 1800MHz effectively and some lower resolutions, this card will let you play all the popular games. This is a DirectX 10.0 card with PhysX and CUDA support, something all NVIDIA GeForce 8th and 9th generation cards feature. The Inno3D GeForce 9600 GSO Xstriker3 is a good card if you want to play games and you don't want to splash out more than $115, which is the price of this card. All in all, we sincerely recommend it, especially if you were planning on buying a GeForce 9500 GT, since this card will provide much better gaming experience.