Best of all, this baby is impressively affordable.

The first born in the highly anticipated 9-series, the XFX GeForce 9600 GT pushes the gaming experience to new heights with up to 90 percent greater performance than any GeForce card in its class. This prodigal child gives a huge value for its price.

The immersive entertainment experience is the powerful product of full Microsoft DirectX 10 support, NVIDIA’s Quantum Effects technology, Lumenex engine as well as Unified Architecture, ensuring that this amazing new card can play the hottest games with jaw-dropping speed.

Its standard heart runs a core speed of 650 MHz, with XFX overclocked versions available in the Extreme and XXX editions pushing 680 MHz and 700 MHz. On top of its impressive speeds, the 9600 GT is HDMI capable with the use of HDMI certified components.

The 9600 GT XXX edition is fully HDMI certified and includes an HDMI component kit and Company of Heroes as a bonus game bundle.

NVIDIA SLI Technology enables users to pair this little killer with an identical 9600-based card for up to two times the performance of a single-card set-up.

Create a mother and child reunion by pairing it with an XFX nForce motherboard to create the ultimate graphics platform.