Sure the NVIDIA 9800 series of video cards are the current crème de la crème of gaming performance, but what if you don’t have the scratch to afford such a beast? Well that’s where the NVIDIA 9600 series comes in. Foxconn sent us over their pre-overclocked 9600GT. As an overclocked card, it should give us a bit more kick than your standard garden variety card. Let’s check it out!

For a few generations now, the x600 series of each NVIDIA chipset has been the midrange workhorse. They generally provide moderate performance at an equally moderate price, and are the cornerstone of many a budget gaming box. The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics chip is no different; offering performance that should get you into most games and a price that allows you to upgrade to a full SLI rig later on. Eventually, as the product line matures, we’ll see new cards with different memory configurations and feature sets. For now it’s just the base model 9600 GT, with a slight overclocked twist courtesy of Foxconn.

The video card we’re looking at today isn’t just a base GeForce 9600 GT. The tweakers over at Foxconn has taken the stock card and, much like they did to the 9800 GTX we reviewed, have overclocked it to give an extra performance boost. All this is packaged into a single slot design that is said to be both cool and quiet.

You can read the entire review at Futurelooks.