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The ninth generation of NVIDIA's GeForce series is now here!

It's amazing how fast GPU (and gaming) technology develops. Time marches on, and video card technology races into the future. The difference between the state of the gaming art in 2008, and the state of the gaming art in 2004, is downright incredible. What future games will look like will be even harder to believe -- and today, we are one small step closer to this future, as the 8th generation of NVIDIA's GeForce passes into the 9th.

The 9600GT series is aimed to dominate the mid-range of graphic card options, and we are going to check out in depth. We're going to bench it against 9 other cards, and we also have some SLI numbers to look at, so hang on to your hats.

Today we will be looking at a 9600 GT design from Palit: the GeForce 9600GT Sonic. While the competition between the $170 and $235 mark is fierce with NVIDIA's 8800 GT 256/512 MB, and ATI's recently price-cut HD 3850/3870 in the fray, the competition is just about to go up another notch: the 9600 GT will be priced around $190 initially, putting it right into the thick of things. Our Palit 9600GT Sonic will be retailing for a little bit more than this standard 9600GT price, at a MSRP of $219 -- but as you'll see soon, it is not a standard 9600GT.