XFX GeForce 7600 GT Video Card (256MB, PCI Express x16, Dual DVI)

Reviewed by: maggnumforrce

Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks

Strengths: Amazingly fast card for the price This beast eats up every single game i feed it with at unbelievable framerates.

Weaknesses: Runs a lil hot for me.i guess it's the size of my case.i still give it five stars

Overall: This is the most powerful card i've ever had.i came from a matrox millenium,geforce 4 mx radeon 9200,x300hm geforce 6200tc,7300le,7300gs then the almighty xfx geforce 7600gt.The performance was more than i expected even with my modest system gigabyte board,P4 lga 775 3.0ghz HT,1gb pc3200 ram,180gb hdd,400watt psu.This card runs all my games perfectly at high settings COD2,NFSCARBON,OBLIVION,HITMAN BM,GRAW.Personally i don't think this card's a midrange card considering the way it slices through the games like a hot knife in butter.it's a low high-end card.check out guru3d n see how this ogre runs against the top high-end cards,very impressive.i highly recommend this card to any gamer who do not wish to spend more than $160.A BIG BRAVO TO NVIDIA AND XFX.

Reviewed by: seanoxide

Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks

Strengths: power, running everything full resolution, correct drivers included, good extra hardware

Weaknesses: none, amazingly

Overall: i bought this card to replace an FX6600 card with a balky fan (didnt feel like replacing it-not that sure of myself) and found that i could easily play all of my games at the highest resolution (1280x1024) at at least 45 fps. NFS:MW, Quake 4, Halo, Call of Duty 2, Prey, all running at dx9 with full anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering and everything else. while other people found the fan on the card noisy, i have not noticed it over the sound of my hard drive (lol) and i still have a relatively quiet pc. i enjoyed the dual dvi ports to allow me to run 2 monitors for when i want to do work, and also the 2 dvi-vga adapter included if i wanted to use a CRT. all in all, this card provides amazing performance for budget users. so far, i see no reason to spend 300-500 dollars more for slightly better performance on my games. in the future, when crysis comes out, i may possibly consider upgrading, but most likely not

Reviewed by: Ghostless

Strengths: Stunning grapics and thats running non sli mode.

Weaknesses: I dont see any weaknesses other than the cheap price.

Overall: I ended up buying 3 of these cards so i could build 3 gaming machines every single component and it cost me $3,359.85 to build myself,wife,and son a pc and we are very happy with realism these cards have.I am now getting ready buy 3 more cards for sli- mode and wont tell my wife im doing it lmao lets see if she sees 80 percent gaming enhancement running these in dual sli mode for the money guys rock solid mid range card five star card.My thanks for all the cheap prices now i cant be more happy.

Reviewed by: Mezoko

Strengths: Runs all the latest games well, quite, PCI(E) and 2 DVI Outputs!

Weaknesses: Can't think of any

Overall: This is the best card I've ever had! As a matter of fact this is the first non-onboard card I've had. The graphics are simply amazing. I don't think I'll ever use SLI. I play SWAT 4, Need for Speed Most Wanted, BF2, HL2, CounterStrike all without a problem and on there highest settings @ 1280x1024. The official nvidia drivers don't have a problem works well with Linux!

Reviewed by: wyndlpoons

Strengths: High framerate and performance, relative low cost.

Weaknesses: Fan is slightly loud when starting up and in some games.

Overall: There are tons of professional reviews out there for this chipset and many for this card in particular. So please, seek them out as I did. For me, the big thing with this card is that it is overclocked and not much more (in price) than the regular versions. I was afraid that the fan was going to be super-noisy and the temps would be ridiculously high. But they're really not. Even on really graphically intense games, such as F.E.A.R. and Oblivion, I have yet to see the temperature go above 64 C. The fan does tend to get loud but I hardly notice it and it's much more quiet than some CPU fans that I've had in my computers over the years. I'm really impressed with this card overall. I upgraded from an ATI X600PRO. In the same games that I played before, notably Oblivion, I get roughly 3x the framerate at higher settings and I can actually use HDR in the game. All of my games run sooooooooo much smoother now too! I think this would be a very good (and affordable) solution to run in an SLI configuration. I'd do it if only I had another PCI-e port. :-) I've heard that this card can be overclocked quite a bit more than where it's at, but I haven't tried it yet. I wouldn't without getting a better heatsink/fan first.

Reviewed by: MADMOMMABEAR2

Strengths: Plays just about every game out there

Weaknesses: A tad noisy

Overall: This card was very easy to install and set up and I have had no problems what so ever with it. The best part of it is that it works with every game that I have tried playing on my computer so far and the graphics look amazing. The only complaint I have about it though, is that the fan is a little loud. Other than that though, it is a great card and I highly recommend it.

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Strengths: SLI-capable video card plays World of Warcraft and Half Life 2 and Civilization IV at 1280x1024 without missing a beat.

Weaknesses: Doesn't overclock too well, but its timings are pretty aggressive already at XFX's already enchanced settings. No bundled software to speak of.

Overall: Flawless install. This card came with a ~$190 price tag, a $30 rebate and free Ghost Recon. That brings the card so far below competing cards from ATI that there really isn't choice. DVD playback not as good as my old ATI X800XL.