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Newegg just put up a couple GeForce 7600 GS cards for sale

EVGA @ 400/800 $139
Model Number: eVGA 256-P2-N549
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130004


XFX Extreme Edition @ 500/900 $143
Model Number: PV-T73P-UDS3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150146

w0w, fanless heatsink on that puppy

well my 7800GS has a fan but it hardly needs it. it idles at 38C and full loads at 54C. thats not overclocked temps. i used NiBiTor.v2.8 for bios modding the card and the fan is set to 79% so it's not even running at full spin.

TGM

PCI-E is so cheap compared to AGP nowadays.... sucks to be behind it really does...

well, the AGP mobos are a tad less expensive; and the vid cards technology is hard to compare as ATI and nVidia put all their new tech into PEG x16 cards. that's what sucks. buton average an AGP card sells for about $50~$75 more to comparitive PEG x16 cards.

what i wish is that the card makers would'nt give us AGP'ers crippled cards.

PEG 7800GTX 24 pixel shader pipes, 8 Vertex shaders 512mb mem
PEG 7800GT 20 pixel shaders pipes, 7 Vertex shaders, 256mb mem
AGP 7800GS 16 pixel shader pipes, 6 Vertex shaders, 256mb mem

and there's noway to unlock anything. only bonus we AGPer's get with the 7800GS is much higher clock rates b/c theres less pipes to heat the gpu up. and we still get the 1.4ns mem. an easy 500/1500 overclocked speed with the stock cooler. i've seen 600/1750 clocks

TGM

The XFX GeForce 7600GS video card is exactly the card I want to buy but I am concerned with heat. I am trying to make sure that this card would be acceptable heat-wise in my system,w/o adding fans or doing mods. I have a DELL Dimension 9150 with an intel Pentium D820 Dual-Core 2.8Ghz, 1.5GbRAM, 2 DVD drives(one burns as well), and two internal serial HDs. The motherboard reads as a DELL BTX with an intel 945p chipsetwith PCIe x16 bandwith so spec-wise I should be fine.

I live in South Florida and my PC is in a smallish room so heat does matter; especially in the summer. Quiet and Cool would be awesome!

I'm definitely going to buy it if it runs relative cool/warm. I am not a heavy gamer at all. If anything I just run the demos. My only full game is Half-life2 but I do like great graphics.

I just want "quiet" with minimal heat. If I could expect the XFX 7600GS XT to be relatively cool/warm in system I am going to buy it; the slower clocked eVGA 7600GS is my second choice. If the faster XFX 7600GS XT will be the same cool/warm-wise as the standard stock nvidia-configured eVGA 7600GS I'd definitly go with the faster XFX card. I have to assume the heat created by both these cards would be very similar and the XFX is definitely the better offering.

wonder how this compares to an x800gt (not unlocked to 16pipes)

Can't tell you how it compares to the ati X800Gt, which I assume uses a heatsink fan setup so it is not silent, but there is a good review at Motherboards.org on the X7600GS XT Video Card: http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/har ... 597_1.html

They compare the X7600GS XT card to the newer series ati cards, the X1600/X1800 series.

Hope this helps.

I've chatted with about 5 owners of this video card.And they were all very satisfied with it's performance!

I just might give it a try myself.