The Card

Out of the box the card looks quite similar to the 9600GT with a cooler that takes up the majority of the card. We can see that ZOTAC has placed their own sticker over the card which lets you know who it came from and what exactly it is.

Looking around the card, we have a single 6-pin PCI Express power connector located at the back of the card, much like the 9600GT.

Towards the front of the card we have a single SLI connector along with another connector that is used for the loop back cable provided in the box. You only need to use this connector if you're going to use the DVI to HDMI adapter and want sound through it.

The I/O department doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before; we have a single TV-out port along with two Dual-Link DVI connectors. Like most mid-range cards it only takes up a single slot.

Specifications

While most of the time we see overclocked cards from ZOTAC, this particular one carries with it just standard clocks which is 550MHz on the core, 1375MHz on the shader clock and 1600MHz DDR on the 384MB of GDDR3.