Advice please for a 7600 GT OC's capabilities
Question: What are the gaming capabilities of a BFG 7600GT OC video card. One of our members is interested in a video card I have, but I don't want to sell him a card that won't meet his needs. As many of you know, I'm not a gamer.
Edit: the video card has a Zalman FC-ZV9 cooler mounted on it.
The prospective buyer is Nickboxer7, and here is what he wrote about his gaming requirements:
Thanks
Leo
Here's the WTB thread.
Edit: the video card has a Zalman FC-ZV9 cooler mounted on it.
The prospective buyer is Nickboxer7, and here is what he wrote about his gaming requirements:
Please give Nickboxer7 and me your objective comments.I'm not a huge gamer, since I do a lot of gaming on the 360. I would like to just about play any game out there, but doesn't have to be highest quality. I would like to play BattleField 2142, TeamFortress2, and Unreal Tournament 3 mainly. I would like the card I get to be able to run settings pretty high on most games, since I have always ran near the lowest on my old computer and my laptop to play anything.
Thanks
Leo
Here's the WTB thread.
0
Comments
My new system will be 4000+ X2, MSI NEO2 board, 2x1 GB DDR2 800, 2x 160GB SATAII in RAID 0, and a DVD Burner
Not a whole lot, but pretty good bang for the buck.
Are you talking about my system or the card? The 4000+ overclocks very well if that is what you are talking about.
the card
I don't know if that score is good or not.
The same processor + 8800GTS 512 = ~14,000 3Dmarks.
The 7600GT needs extra cooling to be any good. I had to take the case off and blow a fan on it to play Total war at above 10fps. So if you buy that card you'll need to buy decent cooling, which when you think about it will probably be a worse value for money deal than if you got an 8600 or a 9600 (Note these are budget cards)
The 7600GT is not a bad card, but I wouldn't buy one brand new, retail. I think that's what some of the other posters have gotten hung up on. Buying one second hand for a deal, however, may not be a bad idea.
I have an dual core Opteron at 2475 MHz, and I got 3218 points in 3DMark 06. That score is from before I added another gig of ram, but the card was overclocked a little.
E6750 @ 3.2 + 7600GT = 3400 3Dmarks
E6750 @ 3.2 + 8800GTS = 13833 3Dmarks
It would do the job, but not for very long (in the scale of things) I would have thought. I had the same card, Leo
Would it run UT3?
There may be 8600GT reviews that feature UT3 benchmarks. Worth a look on the Google. Yes, a 8600GT will run UT3. I just can't say at what resolution/FPS/quality...
Here is a card I have looked at. Supposedly the GT's can OC to about the GTS.