I had a 7600GT, and it had heat related issues, even though the GPU wasn't
reporting exceptionally high temps. Swapped it out for an 1800GTO, and
haven't looked back. My understanding is that a number of 7600 and 7900
units had issues. Basically, the video portion of games would just lock up
for 30 seconds or so at a time, and it would do it every minute to 10
minutes.

The 7600GT reviews as being a little faster than the 1800GTO, except for
Oblivion (which is my main game right now.

Clint

"porta" wrote in message
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What about between say a 7600gt and a ATI X1800 GTO? Which would you
choose?

Quis Seperabit


"Larry Roberts" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:20:16 -0400, "Bob Knowlden"
wrote:

A short review:

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...,125077,00.asp

It looks like the 7600GT is the best buy. Apparently its better graphics
processor performance more than makes up for its 128 bit wide memory
access
(at 1500 MHz), as compared to the 6800GT, which supports 256 bits (at
1000
MHz).


Not to mention, it uses less power (no power dongle), and it
runs cooler.