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Anonymous at 04:55am 04/4/2006
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I can see the asus 7600gs for sale now. But it says nothing about
hdcp on asus web page. Can you confirm that it has hdcp? The picture
shows a dvi port. So I guess its supposed to have dvi-hdcp then?
Weird that they dont mention hdcp on the specs then.
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scottwilkins at 10:12am 03/23/2006
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Average, very average. As usual nVidia wins a few scores, ATI wins
a few scores. Not really newsworthy.
If you like putting your money in engineering, go with ATI.
If you like putting your money in advertising, go with nVidia.
Otherwize you have the same card, no matter what level you buy.
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Anonymous at 06:54am 03/23/2006
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Newegg has two cards available immediately. One of them is actually
an XFX overclocked card at 500 core/900 memory. I'm quite curious
how much closer that gets it to the compared cards, especially
because it's only $143 right now.
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Freakhead_5 at 10:27pm 03/22/2006
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Yeah tomshardware has a bunch of benchmarks showing the 6600gt
whipping the pants off the 6800 in games at medium resolution and no
aa and af on. It seems to me that this is the type of situation
where fast memory/narrow bus beats slower memory/wider bus.
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coldpower27 (View my Profile) at 05:55pm 03/22/2006
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No. Nvidia can't do it this way simply because the die size on the
G73 GPU is not large enough to support the traces necessary to
support a 256Bit Wide Memory Interface. Die size of around ~200mm2
is needed, while this GPU only is 125mm2 so no.
And what matters is performance I don't see any situations where the
6800 GS beat the 7600 GT thanks to Geforce 7 Shaders and higher
clocks short of some benches on TechReport at the insane resolution
of 1920x1440.
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GX-Brandon at 04:04pm 03/22/2006
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I've modified the conclusion a little to reflect this.
The beauty of it all though is that the reader is able to come to
their own conclusions.
You guys can see the features, price point, benchmarks across
multiple resolutions and games, etc, and then decide for yourselves
if the card is right for you. That's the goal at least...
#9: Yes. And yes, on a lower-end GPU, CPU scaling is good to have in
there, which is why I did it for the 7800 GS AGP. Unfortunately I
just didn't have that kind of time for this article. Again, I didn't
even know this GPU existed a week ago.
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Egglick at 03:40pm 03/22/2006
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The 7600 series is great for the price, but I still confused as to
why NVidia chokes the memory bandwidth on them, particularly the
7600GT.
The 7600GT's memory runs at 1.4Ghz, which is quite high for a
midrange card, but wouldn't it be cheaper to use 256-bit DDR/DDR2
running at lower speeds?? Anything over 700mhz would be a bandwidth
improvment at 256-bit.
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sharpshootin at 01:14pm 03/22/2006
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Looks good... now someone mod it or put a refrigerator on it and oc
it to 7600GT levels.
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coldpower27 (View my Profile) at 12:31pm 03/22/2006
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Well I it would really depend on the margins this time around.
Half Life 2 will be is a tie as ATI win the AA + AF benches while
Nvidia wins the HDR ones.
ATI wins Battlefield 2 decently and pulls further away as resolution
increases. ATI wins Call of Duty 2 decently too, bt maintains
constant margins.
Quake 4 favors Nvidia by a huge margin, same thing with LOMAC albeit
with slightly reduced margins. Pacific Fighters less so but still
favors Nvidia.
It's basically a tie in F.E.A.R.
So you can recommend the X1600 XT for Battlefield 2 and Call of Duty
2, while anything OpenGL is Nvidia, F.E.A.R and HL2, either one
works well.
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coldpower27 (View my Profile) at 12:22pm 03/22/2006
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This is such a nice card slightly better then 6600 GT performance
for the same MSRP (149US), Nvidia's really executing on all fronts.
Nvidia's line is really good this time in terms of production cost.
I think all that is left is to replace the 6600 DDR2 with the 7300
GT, and the Geforce 6 Series can basically be put to the grave.
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