The Vvikoo 9600GT Turbo is another custom designed graphics card we tested at ocworkbench.com. Being a custom design card, the card is factory default to run at a higher clocked speed as compared to the NVIDIA reference card. Attached with the Zalman VF-1000 Pure Copper cooler, this card has low noise and the heatpipe helps to dissipate heat faster than conventional designs.

NVIDIA 9600GT has 64 stream processors as compared to 8800GT's 112 and 8800GTS's 128 memory interface is 256bits. In our tests, we find that the performance of this card to be as good as a 8800GT. Whether it is at it's factory default clock or in overclocked mode.

As it uses a Zalman cooler, we check out what would be the temperature like when the card with a stress load. Using the ATitool's 3D artifact detection software, we left the card to run. Using ntune, we read off the temperature readings. At normal room temperature of around 30 Degrees, the GPU temp maintains at 33 degrees Celsius. After 10 mins of running the catalyst artifact scanner, the GPU temperature rises steadily to about 46 degrees Celsius. The card runs very cool. That is probably why it can o/c up to 805/1000 without much issues with this cooler. There isn't much noise generated.

Although it runs cool as a standalone card, the temperature is higher if two cards are on a board with two PCIe cards close together. Air circulation might not be as good as a single card.

If you notice, the card's SLI connector isn't the DUAL SLI connector type. Thus, it is unlikely that G94 series will be able to support 3 way SLI in the future unless it does not require a bridge but channel the control data via the PCIe bus.

In terms of technology, G92 does not support DX10.1 and SM 4.1. The card is also different from ATi cards which comes with an embedded audio controller for HDMI out. If you intend to use the card as a HTPC video processor, you would need to channel the audio from your audio card to the audio pins located on the card. This card is futureproof too with a DisplayPort. There is also S/PDIF out on the card too.

In conclusion, the card is superb in 3D performance. The card also display amazing overclocking performance. On top of that, you could use it to playback / decode your HD programmes with low CPU utilisation.

Price

Pros

• Noiseless
• DisplayPort
• Runs pretty cool at 46 and below
• Audio cable provided

Cons

• Two slot design
• No DX10.1 / No SM4.1
• Might not support 3 way SLI

Ratings

Here are my ratings out of 10 stars.