My poor poor video card

[brownbox]

I have been reaserarchig, and I found this about my video card:

Palit Microsystems, the manufacturer, make the Geforce 7600GS Sonic which has DDR3 memory. It is also a little bit overclocked from the default 400/400 to 450/500.

They also make the Geforce 7600GT, which runs at the frequency 560/700.

These two cards are physically almost identical. Same memory chip, same GPU, same circuit board, same fan. The only difference being the BIOS. The GT model bios is set to run at a higher voltage, and therefore, has a higher clock speed.

It has been done, where the GS Model has its BIOS flashed, thus turning it into a GT model, then it can obtain the same clock frequencies as its older brother.



This is my evil, evil plan. The only downside I can see to this is that the card would run hotter, but even then, no hotter than the GT does. Even then, I have a aftermarket cooler installed, meaning the card barely reaches 50C while overclocked, after 3 hours of playing NFS Carbon.

Opinions please

[Jimmy]

hmm I could do this to my card I suppose too..
Only wroy beign that when i drag those sliders up to high my whoelsystem will crash. If I can find out if its reciveing enough power I too would be happy to try it.

Sounds intersting brownbox

[brownbox]

$150 Geforce 7600GT? Sounds like a plan to me

[creator2003]

yeah i just got the 7600gt not bad ,,but the one i got looks different to others i found on the net ,all the same it cost$210
GPU NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

Graphics Bus PCI Express

Memory size 256MB DDR3

GPU/Memory clock 560/1400MHz

Memory Interface 128-bit

Memory bandwidth( GB/sec.) 22.4

Fill Rate(billion texels/sec) 6.7

Vertices/sec (million) 700

Pixels per clock (peak) 12

RAMDACs (MHz) 400

ive still to overclock it but at the moment there hasent been much need ,been running fs 7hrs straight ezy

[brownbox]

there hasent been much need

I guess I dont really need it either.....But then again, I would like to run Need for speed carbon at 1280x1024 with all the settings at max, rather than 1024x786 , and hey, another 10fps in Most wanted cant hurt anything

[creator2003]

yeah i suppose ,,i played that game on ps2 3days to clock whats with that ??
i run fs now at 1400x900 and got 60flps over nzreal auckland,,then looked down at the seat and got 110flp quickly ,not bad ,but ive now set it back to 20-25 soild and dont see it move much no matter what scenery i add to the sim ,i remember the old days of really poor graphic and jars and think im lucky not to have that problem much anymore .. for the 7600gt

[brownbox]

i seem to get heaps of jerkyness (single digit FPS) whenever I face any airport. No idea why. Ahh well, its a solid 50fps everywhere else though