The Gigabyte GeForce 9600GT 512MB (GV-NX96T512HP) is one of the best passively cooled graphics cards we've seen, offering plenty of tweaks over the 9600GT reference board. Its performance in our benchmarks easily matched the majority of its fan-equipped competitors, ensuring you don't need to compromise on power.

When judged on its own merits, the Gigabyte GeForce 9800 GTX (GV-NX98X512H-B) is a hard card to fault. However, the emergence of similarly priced dual-GPU cards has taken some of the shine off its performance.