Saturday, February 14th 2009
Palit GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition Does Away With Auxiliary Power Input
Where invention pauses, innovation takes over. This seems to be the case with NVIDIA's initiative to release "Green Edition" products of some of its popular GPUs, which brandishes energy-efficiency. NVIDIA's move to release revisions of the G92 and G94 GPUs built on the newer 55 nm process, coupled with clock-speed and core voltage reductions, seems to have made it possible for manufacturers to redesign the cards in a way that they end up being not only energy efficient, but also cheaper to produce.
Palit seems to be one of the first to be out with a 9600 GT Green Edition accelerator that lacks a 6-pin PCI-Express power input. The card has reached retail channels in Japan, pictured by AKIBA. The card uses a core clock speed of 600 MHz, with its 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900 (1800 DDR) MHz. The card uses Palit's regular radial GPU cooler design. It draws all its power from the PCI-Express slot. It lacks an SLI connector. Output options include DVI, D-Sub and HDMI. It is priced at ¥ 7980 (around US $86.7).
Source:
AKIBA PC Hotline
Palit seems to be one of the first to be out with a 9600 GT Green Edition accelerator that lacks a 6-pin PCI-Express power input. The card has reached retail channels in Japan, pictured by AKIBA. The card uses a core clock speed of 600 MHz, with its 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900 (1800 DDR) MHz. The card uses Palit's regular radial GPU cooler design. It draws all its power from the PCI-Express slot. It lacks an SLI connector. Output options include DVI, D-Sub and HDMI. It is priced at ¥ 7980 (around US $86.7).
25 Comments on Palit GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition Does Away With Auxiliary Power Input
One thing I really like is the size of the PCB, reminds me of my old ATI 9600 Pro. It would be nice to see more cards take use this size of PCB as technology improves, I don't mind anymore that my GTX260 is a monster, but it would be effing amazing if they could harness the GTX's power on a PCB the size of that 9600GT Green. I know that's a far cry from reality, but even harnessing the 9600GT's power, albiet I'm sure much more limited, is still pretty good to see.
:toast:
Edit: You know, I don't know if it is actually required to do SLi. The higher end crossfire cards require a Crossfire connector, and I believe the same it true on nVidia's side.
my 8600gt 256mb GDDR3 runs most games well enough at 1680*1050, I might not be able to put on AA for some of them but it suits me fine in a matx LAN rig.
Dont underestimate the power of this card. It would happily run the most popular games of today (Mirrors Edge, L4D, COD5WaW).