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The Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic is hard to miss on the store shelves: it comes in a reflective, bright green box. The same cyber-frog that adorns the card itself is on the box with a sombre expression. I believe his name is 'Frobot.'

The back of the box is lists a few specifications about the product, in 12 different languages, reflecting Palit's international nature.

Bundle

The Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic comes with a DVI/VGA adapter, a molex-to-PCIe power adapter, a S/PDIF connector cable, and a driver CD. The driver CD could have been a little bit better executed -- there is no 'easy install' option to get the VDOTool (overclocking) tool going, and additionally, the user manual on the CD is quite sparse; not to mention woefully in need of an update, as it references DirectX 8.1, and appears to have been written before the release of Vista.

On the positive side of things, the 9600GT Sonic comes with a program called muveeNow, which can be used to assemble your home photos and video into movies, and additionally  the package includes the Anniversary edition of Tomb Raider. While this is not the greatest game of recent years, it is nonetheless welcome to see, and rounds out the bundle nicely.