Today, we will be taking a look at seven different 7600GT graphics cards from six different manufacturers. The 7600GT will be the next card majority of the consumers will be looking to buy because it has a very affordable price tag. In effect, the 7600GT fills in the shoes of "6600GT" of the last Gen.
As you can see, almost all the cards we have here are based completely on the reference design from NVIDIA, right down to the PCB.
This is the list of manufacturers our 7600GT cards come from:
The 7600GT cards seem to be voltage limited on the core. The cards all hit a barrier at 650MHz, where at this speed, major artifact come up with the whole screen drawing only black and green objects and lines. With a voltage mod, we are pretty confident these cards can go further. During the operation of the cards, they ran at acceptable temperatures, thus we believe that artifacting at 650MHz isn't really caused by heat issues.
The BGA RAM chips used on all the cards are Samsung 1.4ns. The average speed that they could reach is about 775MHz, with the Inno3D and Leadtek cards surpassing the average levels clocking in at 800MHz. As for the Samsung 1.2ns on the XpertVision card, they may be running faster internal memory timings because we were unable to increase the speed further, and were stuck at the factory overclocked speed of 750MHz.
The card that gave the most value is the Leadtek WinFast 7600GT TDH. It managed to achieve a stable clockspeed of 640/800, up from the default of 560/700. For the overclockability it offers and the low price it goes for, no card in the pack of 7 can beat this.
If you're looking for a quiet solution and will probably not overclock, then the XpertVision 7600GT makes a very good choice. It already comes higher clocked than most of the other cards, has both analog and DVI outputs and the cooling solution is both quiet and effective. It comes with a tough-to-beat price when you think about the additional features it offers on top of the compared cards, namely the special cooler and higher stock clocks. In fact, these seem to come free when you check it's price tag.
The XFX 7600GT turned out to be the biggest letdown. It does not offer any special cooler, nor is the overclockability up to par with the rest of the pack (Probably because the overclockable cards get all binned to retail as the XXX edition), but it clings onto a premium price tag which is not really justified in comparision.
For the detailed review visit VR-Zone
As you can see, almost all the cards we have here are based completely on the reference design from NVIDIA, right down to the PCB.
This is the list of manufacturers our 7600GT cards come from:
- Asus
- Gigabyte
- Inno3D
- Leadtek
- XFX
- XpertVision
The 7600GT cards seem to be voltage limited on the core. The cards all hit a barrier at 650MHz, where at this speed, major artifact come up with the whole screen drawing only black and green objects and lines. With a voltage mod, we are pretty confident these cards can go further. During the operation of the cards, they ran at acceptable temperatures, thus we believe that artifacting at 650MHz isn't really caused by heat issues.
The BGA RAM chips used on all the cards are Samsung 1.4ns. The average speed that they could reach is about 775MHz, with the Inno3D and Leadtek cards surpassing the average levels clocking in at 800MHz. As for the Samsung 1.2ns on the XpertVision card, they may be running faster internal memory timings because we were unable to increase the speed further, and were stuck at the factory overclocked speed of 750MHz.
The card that gave the most value is the Leadtek WinFast 7600GT TDH. It managed to achieve a stable clockspeed of 640/800, up from the default of 560/700. For the overclockability it offers and the low price it goes for, no card in the pack of 7 can beat this.
If you're looking for a quiet solution and will probably not overclock, then the XpertVision 7600GT makes a very good choice. It already comes higher clocked than most of the other cards, has both analog and DVI outputs and the cooling solution is both quiet and effective. It comes with a tough-to-beat price when you think about the additional features it offers on top of the compared cards, namely the special cooler and higher stock clocks. In fact, these seem to come free when you check it's price tag.
The XFX 7600GT turned out to be the biggest letdown. It does not offer any special cooler, nor is the overclockability up to par with the rest of the pack (Probably because the overclockable cards get all binned to retail as the XXX edition), but it clings onto a premium price tag which is not really justified in comparision.
For the detailed review visit VR-Zone
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