AMD announced Radeon HD4600 series, and one single 9500GT can not secure the entry market for itself. NVIDIA hurried to roll out it’s “New” 9600GSO to make sense.

New version of GeForce9600GSO is based on G94 core, and the amount of shader reduces to 48 (9600GT has 64SP), but memory interface keeps at 256bit, memory size will be 256MB or 512MB. So we can take it as a shrinked 9600GT. It is sure that the new 9600GSO will have lower performance than G92-9600GSO and 9600GT, but hopefully it can bring its price down.

The card will hit the market at the end of October, but HD 4650 has already reduced its price to 70USD. Even NVIDIA’s magic shrink brings down the price but the new 9600GSO may be still late for the show.

wow , 256bit 9600GSO is fun !
but then , when arrive to malaysia ?

if you are confident in your soldering skills you can get some solderballs and apply the missing memory cluster, then you have a 8800GT at least

its totally possible to solder fbga if you know how to make your own solderballs which is actually pretty easy,(at least for me it is)

but nvidia did not lock the cores on the G92-150-A2's, the cores have the shaders disabled via the bios but with 384mb you will only get 96 and 12 rops, the extra memory cluster will give you the extra 4 rops though since there is 4 rops per cluster

even if you flash a new bios it does not matter because its still a g92 bios and they are all coded to take away those missing sp's with less memory clusters just as the G80's were

you guys could always rewrite the bios though lol

This post has been edited by KainXS: Nov 1 2008, 01:08 AM

Get an old cat to upgrade bios and keep training so then you'll be a pro LOL

Still dont exist a mod for 8800gs/9600gso owners to unlock the shadder? if we got only 6 memchip, it would be good if at least getting the all shadders what is sleeping

you would have to solder the extra missing bank, I did that on my XFX 8800GS but it will only unlock 112, the other shaders are bad

thats the problem, its a game of chance

Nvidia was really smart when they wrote the reference bios's, its its costless vs disabling the cores physically which requires very expensive equiptment, the G92's have 32sp's and 4 rops per memory cluster, therefore by removing 1 cluster nvidia got 96 sps and 12 rops on the GS, the only exception is the 8800GT's who's cores do not have 128SP, only 112 as the G92-270-A2's with 28sp's per cluster were the very first G92 cores, the G92-400-A2's were the 128sp core versions but during production the lower binned cores were pushed to another line where they were labeled the G92-150-A2, some are just as good as their 8800GTS512/9800GTX brethen but some aren't.

for example on my GS I could get it up to near stock 8800GTS 512mb performance before I modded it which was amazing for a 50 dollar card

This post has been edited by KainXS: Nov 6 2008, 09:50 AM

did u hacked the card manually?
interesting...
can u show a picture of it? it is unbelivable to me.
from where did u know what should u do?

This post has been edited by Ityam: Nov 7 2008, 07:04 AM

i am courious abt this too.. any prove for us to see...

USD70?

That's around RM250... Should be around USD170.

Did anybody a pencil voltmod to this Galaxy 9600GSO OC?
It has a 0.8ns samsung memory. it should hit at least 2500Mhz but mine can only 2320Mhz.
probably it get lower Voltage that is recomended.
in the samsung specification this memory require 2.1V and the most 1ns memory require 1.9V. Probably the reference board design gives to our cards memory the 1.9V.
Or did somebody tried to check the voltages how much is that?

edit:i havent found the small thing where i should use the pencil. probabli the galaxy dont use reference 8800gt PCB

do somebody know where should apply the pencil mod with galaxy 9600GSO OC?

This post has been edited by Ityam: Jan 19 2009, 03:18 AM