Yup. If you OC your CPU and GC, you can go higher.

For my rig, already OC to the max (only for benchmarks) and scored 7.1k on 3dmark05......

This post has been edited by kmarc: Jun 4 2007, 06:36 AM

Nvidia 7 series card can't play DX10 games. Only Nvidia 8 series or ATI 2xxx series....

Aiyak! I missed this! Lend me, lend me!!! Since I sold off my 7800GS EE, I'm only using a RMAed 2nd-hand MSI NX6600 oni...... cannot play any 3D games at all!!!

Still waiting to get a 8800 card.....

I just joined the 7600GT club. Temporary member only though....

Anybody using 7600GT? What's your max OC on the GPU core and rams?

Want to get a general idea on the overclockability of these cards....

What did you use for stability testing?

So far, my mem can go up to 1600Mhz with no artifacts on ATItool.

Testing the core at 690mhz now......

Eh? Isn't palit=xpertvision? Mine is xpertvision!!!

Anyway, my 7600GT max oc is 700/1600mhz from stock 560/1400mhz! This card not bad at all!!

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Added on August 7, 2007, 11:24 pmYa lo. Crysis coming out only in November. That's a maybe!!!!

My 2nd hand MSI NX6600 just can't play anything!!! Going to sell it off in garage sale later. This 7600GT will also be sold once I get the 8800 series!

This post has been edited by kmarc: Aug 7 2007, 11:25 PM

Still lose out to the 7800GS EE. Remember that the 7600GT is only 128-bit. I've benchmark this card on 3Dmarks06 and it still looses to 7800GS EE at stock..... ok sleep time.....

Yeah, that's a bit lower than usual. Here's the score for my 7600GT PCIE (Overclocked at 640/750). Default settings on 3Dmark03.

Did you OC your GC?


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Your CPU could be the bottleneck but I'm not too sure. Remember that the AGP is slightly slower than the PCI-E, about 2-5% IIRC....

Yup. Default 3Dmark03 settings (1024x768 right?). Can't change the settings as it is the shareware non-registered version.

Yeah, I was surprised myself. Why? Look at the figures below:

3Dmarks03
7800GS EE (AGP) - OC 475/715 : 9666
7600GT (PCIE) - OC 640/750: 15566

3Dmarks06 (remember, the 06 is also CPU dependent)
7800GS EE - OC 475/715 : 3610 total, sm2.0 - 1407, HDR/sm3.0 - 1354 (CPU 1956)
7600GT - OC 690/790 : 3952 total, sm2.0 - 1556, HDR/sm3.0 - 1390 (CPU 2700)

Based on the above scores, I wonder why the 7600GT scored so high in 3Dmarks03 (as in 3Dmarks06, they are about the same..... )

Edit : I'm using the latest driver..... errr 182.16, I think....

This post has been edited by kmarc: Aug 12 2007, 09:23 PM

Eh? How come yours higher? From my records, my 3Dmarks03 score was only 9666 for the 7800GS EE...... (Although I thought I did score 15023 previously but when I re-ran 3Dmark03, it was only 9666 at default setting. Your score is much higher!!!)

This post has been edited by kmarc: Aug 12 2007, 11:15 PM

Errr... better 775 + PCI-E + DDR2!!!

Does you card run without the power connection? Funny that it would need an extra external source of power.

For my previous 7800GS EE, it would give a high-pitch warning when I forgot to connect the power connector (on startup)

Yeah, I thought the 7300GT doesn't need on.

AFAIK, AGP slots can provide up to 25w, PCIE up to 75w and molex up to???

I usually use this link to gauge the performance. They don't include the 7800GS though...


You can select the GC to compare and also the type of game : http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

AFAIK, there is no stress program for OC graphic cards. ATItool is good to detect any minute artifacts that can't be picked up by the naked eye. You probably need to run the scan for artifacts for a few hours if you want to know whether the OC is stable or not.

However, the general recommendation is that you still test out the OC using benchmarking programs to look for artifacts and then try out some games.

In certain situation, ATItool and 3Dmarks may be stable but not in games.....

Just remember that when you test for artifacts in ATItool, whenever you stop scanning due to artifacts, you need to reset ATItool by closing the 3D window and reopening it again. Apparently, if you don't do this, existing artifacts will be considered as normal and ATItool would not report those artifacts.

I remember reading this fact last time but lazy to find the source....