BFG GeForce 7600GT is a beastly overclocker look!

[The STORMLOBSTER]

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how do you install gpu fans? Im thinking about overlocking further but my idle temp is pretty high. Is it easy? Help would be appreciated:)

[GeoffRowley]

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I woudl also enjoy to know how to install fans and such. If I were to install, 4 fans, maybe, would that be beneficial?

[SFR-MAINE]

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I woudl also enjoy to know how to install fans and such. If I were to install, 4 fans, maybe, would that be beneficial?

Will help with air cooling but may be a little on the loud side. I have 11 fans in my case including the videocard, CPU fan, and 3 on the PSU. My case is pretty loud but I am use to it... sometimes late at night it sings to me:laugh:

[The STORMLOBSTER]

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yea but is it easy?

[SFR-MAINE]

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yea but is it easy?

Yes it is quite easy. Make sure your computers case has areas for your fans to install. After that you need to screw in your fans (screws are included with the fans) Plug in the molex conector and your good to go. If you want lighted fans make sure you read the reviews i got two 80MM fans that where supose to be blue but turned out to be purple within a few days....

[imported_Buzzsaw]

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Judging from the pics posted earlier I can see what I'm missing out on with my poor little Radeon 9550. I'm thinking of buying a Radeon Powercolour X850XT...
would anyone mind telling me if this will be good?

Sorry if I am hijacking this topic.

[sknight]

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I have a Sapphire x850xt. And indeed, it IS good.

[GeoffRowley]

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Would the x850xt be better then a 7600GT OC or the x1800GTO? I'm buying one and not sure what to purchase.

[Sir. MatDef]

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Would the x850xt be better then a 7600GT OC or the x1800GTO? I'm buying one and not sure what to purchase.

No, it wouldn't. Go with either the 7600gt or x1800gto, the x850 is just not that great anymore.

[GeoffRowley]

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OK then, so of the 7600GT OC and the x1800GTO which do you think is better?

[lil_jimmy_norton]

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^^ You know you have way too much useless info in your sig don't you?

[SFR-MAINE]

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^^ You know you have way too much useless info in your sig don't you?

HAHA! ^

The 7600GT and X1800GT are pretty much on par or differ by only a few frames. Check prices and pick the one that best fits your budget.

[The STORMLOBSTER]

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bit-tech reviews on each card

"BFG Tech GeForce 7600 GT OC: The gaming experience delivered by BFG Tech's GeForce 7600 GT OC left us somewhat surprised and lost for words. The price of this card is quite fantastic and it will give you a better gaming experience than a GeForce 6800 GT, and also a heavily overclocked GeForce 6800 GS pretty much across the board. You get all of this performance for a mere £150, which represents damn good value for money.

Our only real concern with the card is the noise emitted by the small and whiney cooling solution. Hopefully, we'll see board partners moving away from the standard cooler over the next few months, because that seems to be the only problem with this part at the moment - it could be a little quieter during heavy gaming sessions. However, the good thing is that the pitch is consistent and the fan doesn't continually spin up and down.

We covered image quality in our GeForce 7900 GTX roundup and we don't think that it's quite as important as it is at the high end. People spending upwards of £300 on a video card are looking for the best gaming experience and the best image quality available - this is why we forced the driver quality to high quality with those cards. However, the mid range is all about gaining a decent gaming experience while maintaining image quality that is more than acceptable.

In this case, NVIDIA's image quality is acceptable and the only game where we felt that we needed to increase the quality was Battlefield 2 - which has been an achilles heel for NVIDIA due to the age-old shimmering issue that has been around since the launch of GeForce 7-series."


"X1800GTO:There are a number of problems with the Radeon X1800GTO that aren't strictly related to the cards' performance, because that is pretty good in general terms. However, if the card is going to be priced at £170-180, you're getting into a league where the card is almost competing with the GeForce 7900 GT. Even at £160, the card doesn't really break any boundaries in performance, despite trading blows with the BFG Tech GeForce 7600 GT OC.

We're not sure whether retail cards will be capable of being soft modded to allow all sixteen pipelines to be used to give a higher gaming performance. We'll cover that when we get retail cards in-house for testing. If they do unlock, it could represent a good buy, but you'll also need to factor in a change of cooling solution too.

The cooling solution is our biggest problem with the Radeon X1800GTO because it's simply not up to our expectations. We moaned about the loud, inconsistent and generally poor cooling solution when we reviewed the Sapphire Radeon X1800XL - things haven't changed since then. The cooler still spins up whenever it feels like it before spinning down again.

The sheer size of the chip means that the cooling solution choice is limited due to the amount of heat R520 emits, even with one of the four pixel shader quads disabled. The constant change of pitch during heavy gaming was simply too distracting and there were times when we wanted to do nothing other than jam a pen into the fan to allow us to concentrate on gaming."

[GeoffRowley]

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So, basically, from what I've seen, I think that the 7600GT is slightly better for the price, but makes a loud or annoying noise, which I've heard from a few people. The X1800GTO is slightly more expensive, basically equal in preformance, but has cooling issues. Am I right?

[The STORMLOBSTER]

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Yep thats about it