Foxconn 9500GT Graphics Card
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The Foxconn 9500GT performs just fine for a 9 series NVIDIA graphics card and works well for 3D games like Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament 3. The graphics card was installed in a system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU, Asus M2R32-MVP motherboard, Ultra X3 800 Watt PSU and 4 GB of Crucial memory.
The tests ran well and the results can be seen in the graphs with this review; the tests show that the 9500 GT does not perform as well as the Zotac 8800 GT that I ran side by side with the 9500 GT. For the most part the card will run the games I tested without problems but you may have to lower performance and other settings to get really enjoyable gaming. I found that you could strike a balance between performance and graphics quality and play all the games I tested including Company of Heroes, Call of Duty 4, Unreal Tournament 3 and Microsoft Flight Sim X.
The results showed consistent frame rates in games that were playable at maximum settings for all games, even Flight Sim X, with its 14 frames per second at a high screen resolution. The flight sim played fine and with a little lower graphics settings you can really enjoy the games and still have decent graphics for your eye candy enjoyment.
The Foxconn 9500GT played all the games well but there was no max settings and getting those high frame rates as well as an occasional slow down when things really got going on screen. As with any low end card there was a slow down when playing if there was a lot of action or a lot of people like on some multiplayer gaming.
The Foxconn 9500 GT is not your greatest overclocker as I only saw a few frame rate gains when I overclocked but the Foxconn Foxware program really worked well. It was simple and easy to have this program open and running while testing and checking the current clock speeds as well as run a bench test like Unreal Tournament 3 to check the stability of the clock.
The Foxware program will be really nice to use for overclocking some of Foxconn’s high end cards due to the fact that it only has the three pages of settings and two pages of overclocking functions. One page has the computer information, current speeds and temperature while the other two are for setting your speeds and temperature stuff.
The core and memory speed are on a half dial in the center circle and you can either use the plus and minus boxes or click on the bar to change the speeds. There is also a default click box to change back to default if your clock goes bad or if you just want to set it back to the default settings.
The temperature page has a couple of settings for what type of warning, either beeper or system shutdown, for over temperature and the setting for Celsius or Fahrenheit. Both the speed and the temperature settings are easy to use and the whole program is nice so that you only have the settings of an overclock for the GPU to mess with.
The Foxconn 9500GT is a great graphics card for use with an HTPC or home theatre computer with its S-video out or the DVI connection. DVD’s and videos played fine through the 9500GT and it does very well as a graphics card component for a home theatre experience.
The Foxconn 9500 GT is fully HDMI capable using a DVI to HDMI connector or adapter like my computer system uses along with an HDMI switch. I have a DVI cable going to a DVI to HDMI adapter and then to a HDMI switch with my two consoles and test computer to my Acer monitor. The HDMI works just fine through the 9500GT without any loss of signal or problems at all and the card performs well for any multimedia functions.
Overall the Foxconn 9500GT-256MBFR3 is a great performing graphics card in its class; it handles 3D games with plenty of performance even though you may have to settle for lower settings or graphics. The Foxconn 9500GT would make an excellent choice for an affordable graphics card solution with the newest series of graphics processors or even an HTPC graphics card. I highly recommend the Foxconn 9500GT for a great low end 9 series graphics card.