Any Love or hate stories with this vid card?

[FritzDaKat]

Thinking of getting a 512MB PNY Verto GeForce 7600 GS PCIe for this rig I'm piecing together. Anyone running one / hows it handling newer games?

It'll be in a 3.4 Ghz P4 with 2 gigs of ram

Found a not-so-bad barebones box I'm gonna build up, figure it should hold me the couple of years it'll take for MS to fix up Vista

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=C-BB775-K3

[MONOLITH]

Honestly, if you're going through the efforts of building  a new rig with a nice 3.4 Ghz cpu, I would save just a couple extra bucks and go one step higher with the card.

[MindlessOath]

honestly i would step up to something better than a p4.  i would understand if your using a motherboard you already have, but if your buying a whole new rig like your suggesting go with the core duo or whatever intel calls it.  and as for that card, im not sure but i think you want to stay away from PNY - its a cheap brand that had problems with lots of returns (tho i may be wrong about that, i belive PNY was the compainy).

[FritzDaKat]

Well this rig is for now a quick-fix to get me back up and gaming (Been about a year and a half now without a working box of my own, Work was just a madhouse/ 70-80 hr week's for a year so no time to bother really, now I barely find 40 hrs. worth :/ ) Once I've seen Intel figure out what their gameplan / replacement is for the quad core, then I'll dump the $3k into the mega system. For now I basicly want a system that will handle ArmA, COD, MOHaa/sh/bt and hopefully airborne AND IL2 Sturmovik. And of course it will be nice to have around after the Mega-rig is constructed for a media center / something for Jr. to mess with, ect.

Mabey it's an incorrect assumption, but my thinking was that much like hyper-threading, the benefit's of a Duo-core setup would only apply to software written to take advantage of the feature??


I've always been skeptical about PNY myself, but as this is a "filler" PC I'm trying to keep it to around a $500-600 pricetag at geeks.com thou I guess another hundred for a better card wont kill me. (I know I'm paying too much, I'm just not "eBay patient")

p.s. @ Oath: How ya' like that Raptor drive? Very noticable difference in load times?

[MindlessOath]

very noticabe indeed! i recomend raptor alot! however its very loud and hot, so i suggest getting a motherboard that supports SATA II 3gbps standard! some of the other sata drivers can compair to the raptor (not compleatly tho) but they are much quieter.

anyways, i would offer amd64 chips or intel duo... but still dont recomend p4.
amd > p4
duo > amd
quad? its anyones guess.

[FritzDaKat]

Well, as it is a semi-temporary system I may just give AMD a shot especialy after seeing the board in that barebones box I linked to didn't specify any version of sata a.k.a probably 150

Back to the drawing board.  

[Ronin]

I have a box with one of those in it (actually it's my wife's machine).  It works quite well on GRAW and Vegas.  Nothing seems to run Double Agent very well on the PC (it's a buggy dog).

My wife mostly runs the Sims (1 and 2) and it handles those pretty well.  I played the above games on that rig (P4 3.2Ghz HT, 3GB RAM, GeForce 7600GS 512MB).  It runs Doom III and Quake 4 with all the eye candy, too.

It's not a bad card.  Especially for the price. (Mine was $139, I think).  Supposedly the ATI X1950X is a better card but I've not seen those in comparison first hand.  I have the X1650X on AGP and that beats the 7600GS on AGP.   I can't say about PCI-Express on those.

[MONOLITH]

I Supposedly the ATI X1950X is a better card but I've not seen those in comparison first hand.

It is.

The X1950 was designed to allow those clinging to AGP motherboards for another year to still have a 'top of the line performer'. And it definately is. Toms hardware has some test comparisons and bench marks.

I'm on an X1950 pro. Best card I've ever had. Does Shader 3.0, and nothing slows this card down.

[FritzDaKat]

Honestly, if you're going through the efforts of building  a new rig with a nice 3.4 Ghz cpu, I would save just a couple extra bucks and go one step higher with the card.

Like this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133189

[MindlessOath]

i know your being funny, but that doesnt make sense.

[FritzDaKat]

I think it was just the outrageous price that made me see humor in it.