Those considering a 9600GT would be well advised to keep in mind the new Calibre P960 Gbox, which has superior overclocking powers.
Taiwan based graphics card manufacturer Sparkle has released two new graphics cards, the Calibre P960 Gbox and the Calibre P960G Gbox, though we can't for the life of us work out what the 'G' is for, or what the difference between the two is.
Both cards come with a nifty chassis-mountable display panel which can be set to monitor any one of a number of running measurements, including fan speed and GPU temperature.
Overclocked out of the box, the new cards reportedly have a major boost in performance over the bog standard GeForce 9600GT on which the card is based, because of the use of a high quality MOS circuit and low-ESR solid aluminium capacitors.
The PCI Express 2.0 card offers DirectX 10 support, HDMI at 1080i and Dual Link DVI straight out of the box.
Pricing is not known as yet but the card is expected to come in at around the same price point as a standard 9600GT.
Tech Specs:
Model Number: Calibre P960 GBOX / Calibre P960G GBOX Graphics Processing Unit: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Core Clock: 700 MHz Memory Type: 512MB GDDR3/ 1GB GDDR3 Memory Interface: 256-bit Stream Processors: 64 Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.0 RAMDAC: 400 MHz DVI-I: Dual DVI-I HDTV: Resolution up to 1920 X 1080i HDCP: Yes