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Graphics - 7600GS silent or 7600GT

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Earl Grey, Jul 7, 2006.

  1. Earl Grey

    Earl Grey Mmm... hot tea! Veteran

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    [​IMG] 7600GS or 7600GT? - that is the short version of this post.

    The components for my next PC are close to being finalized. At last.

    Already purchased components are NEC ND-3550 DVD-player and Antec Sonata II case - it looks very pretty just sitting on the floor doing nothing! :)

    The remaining components will be bought at the end of this month:
    Hard drive: WD Caviar SE16 250GB
    Motherboard: MSI KN9 Neo-F (550)
    CPU: Athlon64 3500+ (AM2)
    Memory: Corsair VS PC5300 1GB (two matched 512MB)
    OS: Win XP Home (I'm still using win98se!)

    That leaves the graphics card to be decided.
    Until a few days ago 7600GT was on the top of my list, then I found out about the advantages of the 7600GS. Much lower price and natural silent cooling solution.

    The cards I'm considering are:
    - MSI GeForce 7600GS
    - MSI GeForce 7600GT
    Both with passive cooling and both "reasonably priced". The GS is naturally easy to cool, but what about the GT? Has it been reviewed?
     
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    It's pretty similar setup as the one I bought some seven months ago, except that I went for Seagate and 100% non-genuine Wintows. Check out the CPU: you should be able to get 3700+ for a reasonable price by now (the same price as 3500+ seven months ago).

    I also went for MSI GF7800 GT and it has worked like a charm thus far.
     
  3. Earl Grey

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    Is it this card you have: http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.asp?sku=322008

    Unless someone tells me that the noise from a particular graphics card is so little it won't be noticed in the rig I'm building I'm going to chose a card with passive cooling.
    I'd like to read a review of the MSI 7600GT I linked to above because I'm concerned with the effectiveness of passive cooling on the GT.

    Note that I'm going with AM2 and not 939 and I can't find a 3700+ for that socket. The 3500+ appears to be the best budget choice at this moment.

    Edit: I see now that you wrote 7800 and not 7600. :xx:
     
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    You could buy yourself a 6800 series GForce for around $100, but if you want the 7600 series I would go with the GS over the GT.
     
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