hi there brian
and from another brian here is the info you require,the msi n9600gt has a 700mhz core clock and 1gb of ddr3 memory running at a default clock rate of 950MHz (effective speed of 1900MHz DDR)
however some manufacturers will both reduce and overclock the core speeds depending on the model of the card
for example i previously purchased a "point of view" geforce 7600gt(agp) which had the standard 560mhz core clock however the memory clock was just 400mhz(800mhz ddr effective) when the agp version should be 700mhz(1400mhz ddr effective),this is a massive difference in memory speeds and in memory bandwidth it halfs it from 22.8gb/sec to jusr 12.8gb/sec,which is actually the bandwidth of the geforce 7600gs,so as you can imagine i felt a bit ripped off
whats the 9600gt like,i am looking for a new card for my pci-express based pc,its my wifes but a new card is needed,and the geforce 9600gt isnt that expensive and has some decent allround specs
heres the full list of all the msi N9600gt,s specifications
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT GPU (G94)
505 million transistors
3D GPU clock = 700MHz
64 Stream Processors at 1680MHz
NVIDIA Unified Architecture
GigaThread technology
Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10
Geometry shaders
Geometry instancing
Streamed output
Shader Model 4.0
Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline
NVIDIA Lumenex Technology
16x full screen anti-aliasing
Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with anti-aliasing
32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data
Support for normal map compression
Z-cull
Early-Z
NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology
Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation
Simulate and render physics effects on the graphics processor
NVIDIA SLI Technology
NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
Dedicated on-chip video processor (VP2)
High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
HDCP capable
Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
Noise Reduction
Edge Enhancement
Bad Edit Correction
Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
High-quality scaling
Video color correction
Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support
Advanced Display Functionality
Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600
Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution
NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability
10-bit display processing
Built for Windows Vista
Full DirectX 10 support
Dedicated graphics processor powers the new Windows Vista Aero 3D user interface
VMR-based video architecture
Designed for PCI Express 2.0
Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory
Advanced thermal monitoring and thermal management
Graphics Memory 256-bit memory interface
512MB Graphics DDR3 SDRAM
Default clock rate of 950MHz (effective speed of 1900MHz DDR)
Display Capabilities Dual 400MHz RAMDACs that support resolutions of 2048x1536@85Hz
Dual-link DVI capability to drive displays of up to 2560x1600
Connectors 1 x mini-DIN connector (for Video-out)
2 x DVI-I connector (HDCP Ready)
Drivers & Software Driver support for Microsoft Windows Vista/9x/ME/2000/XP/XP MCE/XP Pro x64, Linux and Macintosh OS (including OS X)
MSI Beyond Multimedia (Drivers & Utilties)
Other Information PCI Express x16 2.0 compliant
Dedicated 6-pin PCIe Molex power connector required (not shared or split)
Power supply rated for 400W or higher recommended by NVIDIA
any problems let me know
good luck brian !