Friday, November 10, 2006

Alive! New Geforce 7600 GS fire up 3d!

Hoohaaa! Finally i manage to get months of frustration off my chest. Behold Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS AGP graphic cards...what a life saver for my 3d works especially it bring my life back to 4x4evo1/2. On the first day i run my 4x4evo2 game at graphic setup similar to previous Geforce 6800 GT setting, it won't be the same as before but i have to live with it. 7600 GS lags by 10-12Fps at high graphics setting compared to old broken 6800 GT. I have to lower down half for AA and FSAA settings to reach at optimal frame rate persecond score to match the old settings, i can saw thats the drawbacks i have. The old 6900 GT have 256-bit memory interface while 7600 GS having half of it 128-bit only. The good news is that the rendering quality and graphics presentation remains the same like it used to be few months back. When runing the NEMIXIS models on the track it looks exactly the same rendering quality as an old 6800 GT does. The manufacturer of the board GALAXYTECH (http://www.galaxytech.com) made the GPU board looks simple especially the open style heat sink which eliminates dust cluttered around the heatsink fins unlike 6800GT which badly enclosed with big colorful cover trapping the dirt, cloggs and build up heats due to heat dissipating blockage. The core GPU tempreature runs at normal operation is at 45-49 degree celcius which put me in alert and caution mode fear the same problem might happen which possibly fried my old cards. I notice there an extra small heatsink near the AGP goldenfinger slot which used to cool down the chipset that used to convert PCIe signal to AGP which is a rare finding...all 7 series card used to be PCIe standard. AGP are optional for minority old AGP mobo owners.

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