7600GT Help

Ok Guys, I'm buying a new video card, and I've narrowed it down to two choices. Either the eVGA 7600GT KOhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130017, or the MSI NX7600GThttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127209, the one with the cool dual slot cooler. I was wanting some advice on advantages these cards have over each-other. Also, there are alot of brand choices, so if anyone knows any good vid card brand names or have had any experience with 7600GT's, please tell me. Thanks Guys!

wellnessoc5 said:

Ok Guys, I'm buying a new video card, and I've narrowed it down to two choices. Either the eVGA 7600GT KOhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130017, or the MSI NX7600GThttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127209, the one with the cool dual slot cooler. I was wanting some advice on advantages these cards have over each-other. Also, there are alot of brand choices, so if anyone knows any good vid card brand names or have had any experience with 7600GT's, please tell me. Thanks Guys!

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The MSI card is cheaper, but eVga's warranty is lifetime and allows for overclocking and removal of the stock heatsink, however most 7600GT's cant go over 600mhz, or oc much at all because the chips are pushed so far already, so i would get the eVga one due to the superb warranty, or if you want the slightly cheaper, better cooled card, get the MSI. Thats my 2 cents since i already have a 7600GT, i can do 590 (from 580) on the core, and 1.6+ on the memory (from 1500), so they really dont go too far, on occasion you will get a card that will do over 600, some even up to 620, but most hit walls at 600 despite the cooling.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102013

this card will blow that out of the water and sapphire covers there 0em's for 2 years....

Rattle said:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102013

this card will blow that out of the water and sapphire covers there 0em's for 2 years....

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in some games its slightly better, and in some the 7600gt beats it, it hardly "blows it out of the water", and those reviews are using the base 7600gt @ 560/1400, the only place where the x1800gto can be considered to be "blowing it out of the water" is in 3dmark 05, it gets like 500 more points than the 7600gt, but i think something is wrong there because the 7600gt beats it in 3dmark 03 and 06, both by a small margin, but beats it none the less, only to lose badly in 3dmark 05, strange, but sure. I'd still say to get that 7600GT, the x1800gto aint worth that extra money unless it overclocks like mad.