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Card Specs:
Nvidia Geforce 9500GT Chipset
1GB DDR2 RAM
1x DMS-59 Connector
1x AV Multi-Out Port
PCI 2.1 Interface
Model Number:VIDEO-498PCI-DLP
Box Contents:
1x DMS-59 to Dual DVI-I Cable
1x AV Break-Out Cable
Driver Disk
Manual
Box Pictures:
Package Contents:
The Card:
PLX PCIe to PCI Bridge Chip:
Testing Setup
Compaq SR2032X
A64 3500+ "Orleans @ 2750MHZ
250MHZ Ref. Clock
1250Mhz HT Link
4GB NANYA DDR2 800 @ DDR2 916 6-6-6-18-2T
Asus A8M2N-LA(Naos-GL6) cross-flashed with A8M2N-LA(Nodus) Bios V3.10
250W HiPro PSU
500GB OEM Momentus Thin HDD
Windows XP Pro SP3
GPU: Jaton 9500GT PCI 1GB and Gigabyte GT240 512MB GDDR5
Benchmark Method.
The 9500GT was bench marked 3 times in 5 version of 3DMark then averaged, the GT240 was benchmarked once on the same tests to provide a general baseline score. The benchmarks were ran at the default graphical settings the only change I made was enabling extra tests that weren't enabled by default.
Benchmark Results
3DMark 2000
9500GT:~2941
GT240: 23586
3DMark 2001
9500GT;~12488
GT240:28004
3DMark 2003
9500GT:~7772
GT240: 23985*
3DMark 2005
9500GT:~2884
GT240: 12540*
3DMark 2006
9500GT:~1711
GT240: 6705*
Conclusion: The 9500GT PCI appears to be absolutely choked for bandwidth as other benchmarks online put PCIe versions of the 9500GT at about 2-3 times slower than the GT240 and the 9500GT PCI is much much slower than the GT240 in this testing. During my testing of the card it seemed at times stuttery and there seemed to be screen tearing, It could have been my HP w17e, but given the poor performance of this card I would hypothesize that the card being choked for bandwidth is the culprit rather than the poor quality scaling and ADC equipment in the monitor. If you were thinking about getting one of these I recommend against it they are pretty hard to find, they are generally expensive, and it appears they are choked by the PCI bus , if you need a more "modern" PCI video card I would look towards an FX5200, FX5500, or Geforce 6200 as they are more common and generally less expensive and probably perform similarly since it appears that PCI reduces the performance enough that a newer and/or higher end GPU id pointless on PCI.
*GT240 benchmarks were only ran once, 9500GT benchmarks were ran 3 times and averaged.