9500m GS > 9600m GT

Hey guys, i posted about my 9500m GS i think it's dying in my other thread, not sure tho..

anyways, i'm thinking of getting a 9600m GT.

is it worth it? is there much of an improvment on performance over the 9500m GS?

and which one, ddr2 or ddr3?

Thanks.

 

try to get DDR3 version. This way it will be a noticeable improvement.

 

Double posting, or cross posting goes against the Forum Rules. If the thread has gotten no response, and you still need help on that, post again to give it a bump.

But a DDR2 GPU cannot compete with the same GPU with GDDR3.
If you are talking between RAM DDR2 vs DDR3 their performance difference is negligible.

 

what he said

 

Of course, 9600M GT GDDR 3have the better/superior performance than 9500M GS GDDR 2 very much.
GDDR 2 is weak. The performance boost is not very significant if you upgrade to 9600M GT GDDR 2 from 9500M GS GDDR 2.

 

DarkSilver, GDDR2 is actually the wrong term - the 9500M GS uses standard DDR2 modules. Take a look at Wikipedia here.

Junglebungle, the 9600M GT has some compatibility issues with certain Acer models (5920G for one). What machine do you have?
Also, have you considered switching to a Radeon HD 3650?

 

I really don't mind, as long as i get better performance than what i got right now.

i bought an Acer 6930G with a 9300m GS, upgraded to a 9500m GS. now i wanna go higher.... would i be better off with a Radeon HD 3650 then? i heard the 9600m GT outperforms the Radeon?

 

yes, 9600m gt ddr3 outperforms the 3650.

 

But the Radeon HD 3650 with 256MB of GDDR3 VRAM should outpace the 9500M GS, key word being "should."

 

Sorry for my wrong term. As long as, OP understand, I guess it is OK already. LOL.
The problem only lies on the compatibility of the laptop of OP.

 

Thanks guys, 9600m GT ddr3 it is then, AcerGuy, do you think my Acer 6930G will take it?

 

Test reveal the 9500m gs is excellent for gaming performance. I proved that it could bump up to 5.2k 3dmarks (06) at max resolution.

Though the 9600m gt IS better.

 

Yeah i would overclock mine more but i think iv screwed mine by doing that, so new card it is lol

 

Good luck there.
One advice? Dont push the GPU to its very limits, you dont want another fried one...lol

 

Yeah i'll note that for next time lol, mind you, my 9500m gs is working fine now? the wierd colours and squares are not appearing now in games, i think it was bad contact with the thermal paste, i opened it and made it better, now it seems to working fine, still can't overclock to my original OC when flashing it though, get that nvdl error when boot then bsod.

 

hmm weird, what does the bsod say

 

Cheer~ I told you before, it was the stupid paste ^^!
That's why I don't use Thermal Paste myself(Noob at it).
Now, you should be glad and revert it to original clock. After that, overclock it instead of flashing it.

 

it was the nvlddmkm.sys bsod error. then restart, same thing again.

DarkSilver, i wanna use newer drivers and overclock though, not the 169.04 which are too old, mind you, dox 181.22 let me soft overclock, i might try the 185.85 again.

 

Go to your device manager and find system devices tab.
Check your Nvidia driver there. I got system errors(for ntune) last time due to that nvidia driver got disabled by unknown reason. Not sure if this will work for you.