Video card for sale....

Any gamers out there interested in buying a second-hand midrange video card? I recently upgraded my video card, and I now I have a spare one that I'm willing to sell for only a fraction of the cost of an equivalent brand new unit.

Image hosting by PhotobucketThe video card is a HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 Pro powered by an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro VPU. The core is fully DirectX 9 compliant and runs at 400 MHz. Its memory runs at a frequency of 300 MHz (600 MHz effective), which gives it a bandwidth of about 9.6 GB/s. The card itself is AGP 4x/8x compatible with 128 MB of high speed DDR SDRAM accessed through a 128-bit memory interface. It's cool-running, power efficient (does not require an external power connector) and highly overclockable, able to reach 9600XT speeds with absolutely no artifacting or stability problems whatsoever.

The Radeon 9600 Pro VPU is based on ATI's R350 core which contains 75 million transistors, more than an Athlon XP/Socket A Sempron (Thoroughbred and Barton cores) or Pentium 4 (Williamette or Northwood cores) and is built on .13 micron process. Internally, it has four pixel pipelines and two vertex engines.

Performance is outstanding at 1024x768 or below (typical for 17" CRT/15" LCD monitors or less) with 2x antialiasing, and is more than adequate for such demanding titles such as Doom 3 or Half-Life 2. In fact, due to some design flaw with NVIDIA's previous generation GeForce FX, the Radeon 9600 Pro can actually outperform video cards in this series, including the flagship GeForce FX 5950 Ultra when running in DX9 mode.

If you're a casual gamer, or a gamer on a budget, this card is perfect for you. It'll run basically any game you can throw at it with good frame rates and excellent image quality.

However, if you're a hardcore gamer who likes his or her games running at 1280x1024 or higher (19" CRT/17" LCD monitors or higher) with antialiasing and anisotropic filtering settings maxed out, this card isn't for you. Actually that's why I upgraded. :-)

Here are a couple of pictures:

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HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 Pro. The fan and heatsink are overrated for this particular card, being similar to that originally designed for the more powerful and hotter running 9700 Pro.

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The box it comes in. Comes with a software and game bundle.

If anyone is interested just feel free to leave a comment or tag with your email address, and I'll get back to you.

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