7600GS - Awsome card, i would reccomend it.

Just wanted anyone whos interested in a mainstream card to know that the 7600GS is quite a card, the xfx 7600gs with 500/900 clocks scores around ~4600 in 3dmark 05 out of the box without any tweaks and on the following budget system:

Sempron 3100+ (1.8ghz)
MSI K8N Neo3-F Sock 754 Mobo
1gb DDR (2x512 Samsung Value Ram, $40/stick)
XFX 7600GS 256mb
250gb Maxtor ATA133 HDD
Windows XP SP2
*newest nforce drivers and beta 84.43 display drivers*

Pretty good if you ask me, now i imagine you could probbaly push 5K out of this thing, maybe more, i wouldnt put a cooler on it because then its not much of a budget card if you add a $50+ cooler, so just use some cable ties, or screws big enough to screw a 80mm case fan onto it, and you can probably get a decent o/c out of it.

the card costs CAD$166 from www.ncix.com and right now is on sale for $150.

So for the gamer on a budget, this card is awsome, greatly outperforms the 6600GT which actually costs the same, if not more.

Sounds like a direct replacement for the 6600GT, given its similar clocks, although the G73 GPU will spank the NV43, simply because it has 4 more pixel pipes and more vertex pipes...

I have Galaxy 7600GS with stock 500/1000 speed out of box. Using active cooler and 2 DVI ports.