FS: XFX 7600GT Video Card

Gaara

SOLD SOLD SOLD - XFX 7600GT Video Card $50 shipped - SOLD SOLD SOLD

This is a good quality PCI Express 16x video card. When I did my research this was the best card to buy below $150. Worked well for me but I have been getting into more recent games like FEAR and Company of Heroes, and I like to play at 1900x1440 with all the detail settings maxed out. I replaced this card with a BFG overclocked 8800GTS 640mb...a $400 card.

Will be double boxed and shipped insured from a pet and smoke free home from the original owner. Includes all accessories, box and manual. Accepting Paypal (CC add 1.5%) money order, or personal check from buyers who have verifiable good feedback. Must have at least 25 posts.

Phasearray

Hi,

Is this the version with dual DVI and 256 megs of memory and s-video out and 128 bit memory interface?
Very nice card, at least 120 new.

ben62670

I have used many XFX cards before, and they are rock solid boards.
BTW I want your 8800!!!

Phasearray

yeah, I'm thinking about it. But I don't know if my wussy 400 watts FAR Ultra value power supply can handle it.

engtaz

thats a great price I am already running dual 7600's.

Gaara

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150182

Yes, Dual DVI 256mb memory...etc.

I personally have a basic 500watt PSU which ran this fine, and runs my current 8800GTS fine.

Ben, the 8800 is pretty intense...only downside is this thing pours out heat and can get a little noisy. Still it is a great card and I am happy I spent the extra coin.

polkatese

so, if I understand this correctly, since I have a Dell dimension 8400 with a 350 Watts PS, it won't have enough juice to run it?

Sami

Gaara wrote: »

Ben, the 8800 is pretty intense...only downside is this thing pours out heat and can get a little noisy. Still it is a great card and I am happy I spent the extra coin.

I got myself 8800GTS Extreme 320MB version and it's dead quiet (at least compared to the X1800XT I had). I haven't noticed any heat issues with it either so maybe YMMV. Yes, it's a damn good card, while the X1800XT had trouble running COD2 in full detail at 1680x1050 smoothly, this card is way past 100fps.

Good price for a decent card BTW.

ben62670

polkatese wrote: »

so, if I understand this correctly, since I have a Dell dimension 8400 with a 350 Watts PS, it won't have enough juice to run it?

Dells have pretty solid power supplies. If you aren't running more than one Hard Drive you should not experience any problems with your power supply. I have a lot of Compaq's/HP's Emachines, and others that suffer from power supply failure, but rarely Dells.

polkatese

uh oh, I have two HD SATA installed as is, a 160GB and 320GB. So far, zero issues, and it comes with a standard ATI 800SE, 128MB card. I am interested in upgrading the Graphics, but don't want to cause instability. Thanks for your comment, Ben.

polktiger

polkatese wrote: »

uh oh, I have two HD SATA installed as is, a 160GB and 320GB. So far, zero issues, and it comes with a standard ATI 800SE, 128MB card. I am interested in upgrading the Graphics, but don't want to cause instability. Thanks for your comment, Ben.

Definately watch your power supply from Dell. I was ordering some computers for our office one of which was an Optiplex which has a 350 power supply, but I needed a higher end graphics card than what it came with, so the business sales rep we deal with quoted a card that as it turns out needed a 400 or 450 watt power supply. Well after an hour on the phone with Dell support and 1/2 hour on my own, we figured out that the reason I go no picture on the monitor was, you guessed it, not enough power. Since it was a Dell screw up as they suggested that card, Dell did send me a replacement that still met our performance needs at no charge. (our spec was a lower grade card, they offered to sell the higher end one instead at no additional charge) They let me keep the high end card too some ATI card with 512 of ram, too bad none of our current machines can use the thing. So, it will sit in my desk until we buy new machines.

Ironically - Dell's replacement was this same model card XFX Nvidia card - we have been very pleased with it in our office.

ben62670

polktiger wrote: »

Definately watch your power supply from Dell. I was ordering some computers for our office one of which was an Optiplex which has a 350 power supply, but I needed a higher end graphics card than what it came with, so the business sales rep we deal with quoted a card that as it turns out needed a 400 or 450 watt power supply. Well after an hour on the phone with Dell support and 1/2 hour on my own, we figured out that the reason I go no picture on the monitor was, you guessed it, not enough power. Since it was a Dell screw up as they suggested that card, Dell did send me a replacement that still met our performance needs at no charge. (our spec was a lower grade card, they offered to sell the higher end one instead at no additional charge) They let me keep the high end card too some ATI card with 512 of ram, too bad none of our current machines can use the thing. So, it will sit in my desk until we buy new machines.

Ironically - Dell's replacement was this same model card XFX Nvidia card - we have been very pleased with it in our office.

Thanks for pointing that out. Optiplex power supplies are weaker. The Dimensions are solid. Did the video card have a separate power connector on it? Even with a weak PS it should boot, but just cause stability issues.

BTW NewEgg has Thermal-take ATX PS's 430 watts for $39 that have been running in some of my customers SOHO servers for a few years non stop. Antec is slightly more expensive, but there True series are just rock solid. A 380 Antec True was running my Opteron 165, 2 gigs, 2 Video cards, 2 opticals, and 4 HD's for 4 years solid. As in audio watts is not watts. Comp USA, and other generic PS's are pretty crappy. If the power supply is light it is junk.

Systems

I have this same unit passively cooler in my HT PC. ITs a good unit, it can run World of Warcraft at strait 60 FPS (LCD limited).

Systems

ben62670 wrote: »

Thanks for pointing that out. Optiplex power supplies are weaker. The Dimensions are solid. Did the video card have a separate power connector on it? Even with a weak PS it should boot, but just cause stability issues.

BTW NewEgg has Thermal-take ATX PS's 430 watts for $39 that have been running in some of my customers SOHO servers for a few years non stop. Antec is slightly more expensive, but there True series are just rock solid. A 380 Antec True was running my Opteron 165, 2 gigs, 2 Video cards, 2 opticals, and 4 HD's for 4 years solid. As in audio watts is not watts. Comp USA, and other generic PS's are pretty crappy. If the power supply is light it is junk.

Optiplex models are a *step up* from Dimensions. Dimensions Dell's are pretty much the rock bottom at Dell. They just released a new business line called "Vostros" (limited to 100mb Ethernet.. like most dimensions ug) that are meant to be for basic business use and they are pretty much relabled Dimensions. I have taken some Optiplex models home for workstation use and dropped mid/low range cards in them such as my GF7600 passively cooled model and they run perfect. I actually took out the Opliplex PS and put in one of my standard 600Watt (ANTEC) PS’s in it when I was playing around. If you are looking for anything more then that you go XPS or Precision. I actually suggest people buy Precisions. I think SLI is a waist. You can buy a Precision with 2 proc's.. and they have 1000 Watt PS's. You can basically get 2 quad core 3.0 ghz zeon procs in it (8 cores) and then run 1 GF 8800Ultra on Vista Ultimate. You can probably do this cheaper than buying their top of the line XPS.

Systems

Sami wrote: »

I got myself 8800GTS Extreme 320MB version and it's dead quiet (at least compared to the X1800XT I had). I haven't noticed any heat issues with it either so maybe YMMV. Yes, it's a damn good card, while the X1800XT had trouble running COD2 in full detail at 1680x1050 smoothly, this card is way past 100fps.

Good price for a decent card BTW.

Dont forget that most people have LCD monitors now-a-days and they are limited to 60fps. If you "uncork" them to get more (100 FPS) what results is massive screen tearing (looks horrible, kind of like speaker clipping). I still have not found a reason to replace my Sol GF7800GTX because I haven’t found a game yet that it doesn't tag 60fps solid with.

Sami

Silverti wrote: »

Dont forget that most people have LCD monitors now-a-days and they are limited to 60fps. If you "uncork" them to get more (100 FPS) what results is massive screen tearing (looks horrible, kind of like speaker clipping). I still have not found a reason to replace my Sol GF7800GTX because I haven’t found a game yet that it doesn't tag 60fps solid with.

That's why I set 60fps limit on the games that support it, no reason to go above it even if the monitor supports it as the human eye doesn't.

Maybe it's your choice of games but the 7800GTX and my old X1800XT are very similar cards in regards to performance. BF2 didn't gain much with the upgrade but COD2, Oblivion and HalfLife all took huge leaps in playability, very smooth on what used to get a little sticky at times. This of course with the details maxed and at 1680x1050, if I reduced the resolution to 1280x1024 it was totally different story but then was the enjoyment as well.

ben62670

Most Optiplex's are of the slimline build. Stripped out buisiness class workstations not meant to be upgraded. IMHO Not an upgrade from Dimensions.

Systems

ben62670 wrote: »

Most Optiplex's are of the slimline build. Stripped out buisiness class workstations not meant to be upgraded. IMHO Not an upgrade from Dimensions.

We agree to disagree. We bought a lot of dimensions at first and they are in general absolute rock bottom PC's.. hell they don’t even have gigabit network cards. Even Dell says "We do not support Dimensions on a network".

Strait from Dells mouth.

But again, Im stating from fact that the new rock bottom line *under* Oplilex is called "Vostros" and they are strait up Dimensions period. Sorry.

ben62670

Silverti wrote: »

We agree to disagree. We bought a lot of dimensions at first and they are in general absolute rock bottom PC's.. hell they don’t even have gigabit network cards. Even Dell says "We do not support Dimensions on a network".

Strait from Dells mouth.

I agree to disagree also:). I truly believe you. I am just speaking of the ones I have seen in the field locally. Yes tons of 4200-4400's slammed the market years back, and yes bottom of the line. I think we just agreed to agree depending on flavors:D

Gaara

Whoa this thread mutated, I love it when they do that.

I have no clue on dell...up until I got this PC all we ever had were off brands like Beyond Computer. Interesting stuff.

As for the requirments for the cards...I haven't a clue. I checked newegg, their website, and the manual for the card and nowhere does it talk about minimum power supply...at least that I can find.

Sami, the 8800 is not loud just louder then the 7600gt was. With the 7600 the loudest component was my PSU fans, with the 8800 it is easily the video card. Runs a little less then the PSU when idle but during/after gaming at 1920x1440 at 60fps with everything set to max it can get noisy.

Sami

Gaara wrote: »

Runs a little less then the PSU when idle but during/after gaming at 1920x1440 at 60fps with everything set to max it can get noisy.

Then again you don't run your games with the volume muted. Maybe that's why I don't hear mine, with cans on my head and explosions right and left...

Gaara

I never really run my speakers that loud, i have a passive pre and am usually at the bottom end of the volume control...which is probably why I notice the noise more then most.

As for the card, price is now $65 shipped.

Gaara

bump for a great little video card.

No one needs a nice in expensive PCI Express 16x video card?

Gaara

Didn't realize I still have this, $50 shipped.

That was quick SOLD