Customer Reviews

EVGA e-GeForce 7600GT 256 MB PCIe Video Card

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I tried this card after first starting out with a very similar card which also was built to the 7600GT "specs". Both had 256MB, but this card had the advantage with "DDR"3" video memory.

Basically, I wanted to find out if THIS card would improve Vista's graphics WEI performance rating, while DirectX 9 is still in widespread use. I already tried a higher priced GeForce 8500GT card that supports DX10, but the gaming graphics performance generally decreased quite significantly.

This card clearly is the winner, and currently the best of all worlds (given a more powerful graphics card is really not an option without upgrading my fairly high end, but relatively compact tower PC's power supply and motherboard - no thanks).

I had to ditch the driver that came with the card, however, and download the latest driver from the EVGA website. Thus, this card is NOT a Plug-n-Play Vista compatible graphics card right out of the box. To make it compatible a driver released by nVidia (Version 158.24) must be downloiaded and installed on a Vista PC.

On a Vista PC, be sure to view the Vista WEI ratings for "System" in the Control Panel (or Performance Information and Tools). Do this both before and after the installation of any hardware upgrade and you will be able to use the system itself to help you evaluate the difference in performance.

BTW< the installation of a "better" graphics card will not improve your PC's overall WEI rating, but the subcategory 3D Aero, Business and Gaming graphics performance should be observed for change.

In my case I was already at a 5.9 for the 3D Aero performance, but changed from 5.4 to 5.5 for the Business/Gaming graphics performance. Not a BIG improvement, but still enough to increase a typical high resolution graphics applications video display image in FPS by aprroximate +2%.

In conclusion, this card gets FOUR stars only because it is not PnP Vista compatible. Some of the other "freebie" utilities and applications that come on the CD-ROM installation disc are not Vista compatible either.

It has a VGA+DVI set of video output connectors, plus a S-video output with a dongle for most commonly used inputs to a TV. I would have preferred dual DVIs, as usually found on higher priced cards. The EVGA "554" version of the product has dual DVIs and actually is an even faster performing "7600G" graphics card, but probably needs to have a beefier system power supply of 400W or greater. This model can get by with a minimum 300W system supply if it has at least 18A on the +12V output.

If good video performance is where you want your hard earned PC upgrade dollars to go, especially for more satisfying gaming applications, this is a worthy product. Just be aware, for do-it-yourselfers, you need to be fairly savvy on video cards and how to install them to work properly on a Vista PC.

I coupled this card with an MSI P6N SLI Platinum Motherboard and it works flawlessly. I also have it hooked up to a 19" Viewsonic LCD via DVI cable. Running the LCD at native resolution and have had no problems with any graphics or games thus far.

I just noticed that the fan on this card is the loudest one in my case. It's louder than my two Cooler Master case fans (120mm and 80mm) and the Cooler Master RR-LCH-P9E1 92mm UFO CPU fan. In fact, without the video card fan my PC is nearly silent in my home office setting. With this video card installed, I can hear noticeable fan noise. Not horrible, just noticeable. So, if you are building an HTPC, I would suggest getting a fanless card.

Throws a bit of heat out of the top of the card (where the fan exhaust port for the card is). More heat than my EVGA 256-A8-N313-LX GeForce FX5500 256MB AGP card. So, if you have a case that doesn't have a grill or screen on the side of the case (where the PCI cards go) then you may want to make sure that you have adequate fans / ventilation to get rid of the added heat to your case.

There is no PCI 6-pin connector on this card, so you end up utilizing the mobo power.

*****You must make sure that your power supply puts out +12V @ 18A, for this is the minimum power requirement for this card. Anything below that may not work or show instability.

Great card; I highly recommend it.

I wanted to upgrade my graphics card to be able to play some of the new high performance games without the high performance price that you usually need. I immediately saw a difference in my games, especially in Company of Heroes. I also upgraded to 2 MB of memory and the games run flawlessly on the highest settings. Highly Recommended!

My video performance improved from score 200 (3dmark05) to around 5800. I was using my onboard video and it was incredibly slow even in a reasonably recent system (Core 2 Duo E4400). With my new video card my PC is much better!

I had two Evga 256mb cards SLI'd together and they ran very well for two years. All of a sudden, the PC shut down and would not power up. Thinking the CPU was fried, I replaced the MB, RAM, and CPU, but kept the two video cards. Lo and behold, while playing the very same old game (Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory) the PC shut down again and would not even power up. Knowing that the only components common to the old and new PC's were the video cards in SLI mode, I removed one card. The PC powered up and booted normally. Upon examination of the video card that I removed, I discovered 6 of the 10 capacitors had ruptured. Don't know why, other than an obvious over-heat situation. The other card is fine. Bottom line, be wary of connecting two of these video cards together in SLI mode!

This card is still awesome! It was the best value card of nVidia 7 series and still manages to keep up. You can play Call of Duty 4 (800x600 - 1024x768) decently with some settings off, enough memory and a good CPU. It has the cheapest price you can pay for a card to play it. UT3, Crysis and Gears of War can be played on 800x600 resolution quite well.

If you are really short of money and are running an old card this might be the choice for you until you can afford a 8600GT/GTS or better card. Check 8600 prices before buying this one just in case.

So far this is the best video card I used, fast and a great overclocker.
You just can not beat this price. I payed like double this a year ago This card does run a little warm when oc'ed Other than that its a super card.

Great video card for the money. Plays all my games with decent Fps.

I bought this card because I am not an extreme gamer, nad it fits all my needs. 256 Mb, DDR3, my PSU can handle it (no extra power).

It runs at 54C on idle and 65-67 under heavy load. A lot of people think this is fine, but I will buy a new fan. The stock fan is nice, but it's a little noisy for me. While I am gaming I don't notice it, or while I am playing music. But when I am not using the speakers I can hear it (it's the loudest fan in my case) and it's always changing speed, because of that, the fan is disturbing.

Before I got this card, I looked at toms hardware review.
It looked pretty good, better than my current card by a factor
of about 5.

Price good, performance good. It's not the best but I am not
a hardcore gamer.

I used Need for Speed Underground II as a test base and works
well at 1600x1000.

Cons:
Fan a bit noisy

La recomiendo, un gran pecio y un alto rendimiento, juegos como Call of Duty 4, Bioshock y más al máximo, no lo dudes es una gran opción.
Cuando la compré valia $92