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Unlike its 9800XT offering, the ASUS Radeon 9600XT looks much closer to the reference design, with just the cooling heatsink and fan unit changed, making the board look quite attractive with an orange PCB and silver cooling components. The bottom of the card doesn't even have a cooling plate, demonstrating how cool the card runs.
The expansion plate has the usual three ports on it; DVI-I, D-sub and S-Video output.
It also comes with the same extras bundle as the ASUS 9800XT, which at this price point is very impressive.