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Asus EN7600GT Silent /2DHT/256M/A Geforce 7600GT Videocard Review
Asus EN7600GT Silent /2DHT/256M/A Geforce 7600GT Videocard Review - PCSTATS
Looking at this PCI Express videocard, we see that the Asus EN7600GT Silent features two dual link DVI output connectors, Component output (y, Pb, Pr), the SLI bridge connector, and the all important SilentCool thermal solution.
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Silent Overclocking Action

Overclocking Results:
stock overclocked
gpu (core) speed: 560 mhz 635 mhz
memory speed: 1400 mhz 1596 mhz
if you're new to Overclocking and not sure what to do, check out these two excellent Guides for some pointers:
Overclocking the CPU and Memory
Overclocking the Videocard

As usual we started with the core overclocking first on the Asus EN7600GT Silent videocard. Clocked at 560 MHz the Geforce 7600GT GPU clock speed was increased in 5-10 MHz intervals within nVidia nTune. There are no third party tweakers that support overclocking nVIDIA's latest generation cards... so we're forced to use the latest version of nTune to overclock.

The GeForce 7600GT core is a pretty good overclocker in general and the Asus EN7600GT Silent/2DHT/256M/A easily broke 600 MHz core speed at the testing began. The core handled well and quickly hit a maximum speed of 642 MHz on its own. That's a pretty healthy overclock from a passively cooled GeForce 7600GT!

Next up was the 256MB of Samsung GDDR3 memory. The memory had the following markings: K4J52324QC-BC14. By default the GDDR3 memory is clocked at a brisk 1400 MHz, overclocking began with 5-10 MHz intervals that we hoped would lead us to some lofty heights...

Overclocking the memory was quite a pleasure as it cracked not just the 1500 MHz barrier... but also 1600 MHz mark! In fact the Samsung GDDR3 memory settled at a maximum speed of 1612 MHz which is pretty good for memory already running at 1400 MHz.

Unfortunately the Asus EN7600GT Silent/2DHT/256M/A could not run both the Geforce 7600GT core and memory at each parts respective maximum overclocked speed. After a bit of frustration the maximum the core and memory would run together without any issues was 635 MHz core / 1596 MHz memory.

Prelude to Benchmarks

The details of how the Asus EN7600GT Silent/2DHT/256M/A test system was configured for benchmarking; the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions are indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this nVidia GeForce 7600GT based videocard is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results on the next page.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations
test system reference system
processor:

amd Athlon64 4000+ (socket 939)

Clock Speed:

12 x 200 MHz = 2.4 GHz

Motherboards:

Asus A8N-SLI Premium (NF4 SLI)

Videocard: Asus EN7600GT Silent/2DHT/256M/A

Asus EAX1900XTX/2DHTV/512M/A
MSI RX1800XT-VT2D512E
Gigabyte GV-RX18L256V-B
ATi Radeon X850 XT PE
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E
ATi Radeon X800 XL
PowerColor X700 PRO
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E
Asus EN7900GT TOP/2DHT/256M/A
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D512E
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (Single Mode)
MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E (SLI Mode)
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (Single Mode)
Asus EN7800GT 2DHTV/256M/OSP/A (SLI Mode)
MSI NX7600GT-VT2D256E
MSI NX6800GT-T2D256E
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (Single Mode)
MSI NX6600GT-TD128E (SLI Mode)

Memory:

2x 512MB OCZ Gold GX PC3500 DDR

Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740
CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x
PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI
Heatsink: Athlon64 4000+ Reference Heatsink
Software Setup:

Microsoft WindowsXP SP2
nVIDIA Forceware 6.70
nVIDIA Forceware 91.27
ATI Catalyst 6.6

Benchmarks:

3DMark05
3DMark06
AquaMark3
FarCry
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Doom 3
FEAR
Quake 4
X3: Reunion

AA+AF Benchmarks
FarCry
FEAR
Doom 3

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Contents of Article: ASUS EN7600GT Silent /2DHT/256M/A
 Pg 1.  Asus EN7600GT Silent /2DHT/256M/A Geforce 7600GT Videocard Review
 Pg 2.  Silent Heatpipe Asus Cooling Solution
 Pg 3.  — Silent Overclocking Action
 Pg 4.  Benchmarks: 3DMark05
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: 3DMark06
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: AquaMark3
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: FarCry
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: Doom 3
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: Quake 4
 Pg 11.  Benchmarks: FEAR
 Pg 12.  Benchmarks: X3: Reunion
 Pg 13.  Advanced Benchmarks: FarCry, Doom 3, FEAR
 Pg 14.  Conclusions: Dawn of the Quiet Videocard?

 
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