The BFG NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 GT OC2™ 512MB graphics card offers the same powerfully immersive entertainment experience as standard models, but is OC2™ overclocked to deliver improved frame rates and better over all performance in the hottest Microsoft® DirectX® 10 games. The revolutionary PureVideo® HD engine plays the latest HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc® movies with brilliant jitter-free clarity. Couple two BFG NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 GT OC2™ graphics cards together with an NVIDIA nForce® motherboard for an optimal graphics platform, giving you the gaming horsepower to handle the most demanding games with NVIDIA SLI® technology. With the BFG NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 GT OC2™, amazing graphics performance is now within your reach.

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Features

NVIDIA GeForce™ 9600GT:

NVIDIA's fourth-generation GPU architecture built for Windows Vista.

NVIDIA unified architecture:

Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs.

GigaThread Technology:

Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.

Full Microsoft DirectX 10 Support:

World's first DirectX 10 with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects. It provides reference GPU for industry's DirectX 10 API development and certification.

NVIDIA Lumenex Engine:

Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy at ultra-fast frame rates:

16x Anti-aliasing:

Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 16x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.

128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range(HDR) Lighting:

Twice the precision of prior generations for incredibly realistic lighting effects - now with support for anti-aliasing.

NVIDIA SLI™ Technology:

Delivers up to 2x the performance of a single graphics card configuration for unequalled gaming experiences by allowing two cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI technology dramatically scales performance on today's hottest games.

NVIDIA ForceWare Unified Driver Architecture (UDA):

Delivers a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications. ForceWare provides the best out-of-box experience and delivers continuous performance and feature updates over the life of NVIDIA GeForce GPU.

PCI Express 2.0 Support:

Designed to run perfectly with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 16 GB/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth(twice that of first generation PCI Express).

NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology:

Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU - all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI.

OpenGL 2.1 Optimizations and Support:

Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL application.

PureVideo™ HD technology

The third generation technology, combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate colour, and precise image scaling for movies and video. It provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, VC-1, WMV, MPEG-2 HD and SD movies.

HDCP Capable

Designed to meet the output protection management (HDCP) and security specifications of the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, allowing the playback of encrypted movie content on PCs when connected to HDCP-compliant displays.

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Specification

Chipset: 9600 GT

Edition: OC2

Chipset Features: 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR)

16x Anti-aliasing

Microsoft DirectX® 10

NVIDIA ForceWare Unified Driver Architecture

NVIDIA GigaThread Technology

NVIDIA Intellisample 4

NVIDIA Lumenex Engine

NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Technology

NVIDIA Quantum Effects

OpenGL 2.1

PureVideo HD

Shader Model 4.0

GPU Speed: 690 MHz

Memory: 512MB

Memory Bit Rate: 256 Bit

Memory Type: GDDR3

Memory Speed: 1880 MHz

Pipelines/Stream Process: 64

Cooling: Fan

Interface: PCI-E (x16)

Connectivity:

SLi: Yes

HDCP Ready: Yes

£108.61