Nvidia Geforce 9500GT!Help Me To Choose!, Serious & Sure Help Needed..

I am planning to buy a 1GB nvidia geforce 9500gt card for my pc soon...MY main headache is WILL IT WORK WITH MY M.B WHICH HAS A PCIe x16 SLOT???
Also saw that some partners makes this card with passive cooling(fanless) & some with fan..Which one will be good?Our weather stays hot maximum time..

PC CONFIG:
P4 3ghz ht
1.5gb ddr1 ram at 400mhz (soon increase it to 2.5GB)
intel 915GAV mb
400 watt PSU

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Please post your valuable replies waiting....

Why a 9500GT?
Bcoz of my poor system & my pocket..

Thanxxx coozie7...

+1 to the other guys...

If you are set on a 9500 then try to get the DDR3 version if you can find it. For this card, the 1gig isn't worth it. I am not that familiar with the v1.1, but if you could, the 9600 with 512 of DDR3 will do phenomenally better than a 9500 and the 9600's aren't that much more. I think i've seen them for low 70's with a 10 MIR.

I have a 9600 in one machine and a 9500 in another DDR3 in the 96 and DDR2 in the 95 and running mark06 respectively the 9600 will score 3k-3.5k more in the 3.0 test thing.

Kithzaru thanxxx for your valuable info..

The 9500GT will work just fine. As previously stated, don't go with a fan less one. If you do then you better make sure you have good case ventilation. One reason to go with XFX is due to their double life time warranty. I say just go with whichever one has a better cooler on it to overclock it . You may also want to consider something like a Radeon 4650. Anything more powerful than that won't do you too much good though due to the rest of your system . You may want to think about overclocking that P4 a little if you are going to play any games.

You could always sell your system and start over. Add $200 for what you sold it for and pretty certain you can build a gaming rig with an e5200, G31 mobo than OC the CPU to 3.3 Ghz, 2 Gigs RAM, and a 9600 GT.

Get the one with the fan, especially if you're going to do a lot of gaming. Although the fanless design will work, the GPU temps will be higher than a card with a fan.

Also, find a card with at least a 2 year warranty. It's just extra comfort knowing how fast videocards can literally burn up, fry, overheat and die.

All good advice up there. If your budget allows, a 4670 is probably the most powerful readily-available card that doesn't need auxilliary power. I think they're as low as $70. There are supposedly some low-power 9600GT and even 9800GT cards coming out now, but from what I've read they will be more expensive.