Have or have had a 7600gt?

Comdrpopnfresh

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I have one of those EVGA 7600gt KO versions with a copper heatsink. Supposedly, the stock speeds on it are 580/750 (not counting the double-date rate on the memory)- so it is already factory oc'd up from the reference chip. I currently have it running at 670/835. It idles at 52 degrees, and loads at 74.

I attribute my good overclock to a combination of four things: I overclocked the pci-e bus to 115, have a good asus board which can overclock the board to a preset "faster" speed without touching a slider, have good cooling in my case, and did a pencil mod on the back of the card.

I just wanted to know how much success others have had.

I understand that the nvidia 7-series is over the hill and all, but I've read the 8600gt doesn't perform much better (yeah yeah yeah- so it is really a 8600gs), and I don't have the money for a 8800gt, gts, or second variation gts. When I do it'll be heading over the hill too :)
 

Marty502

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Heh, I used to have a XFX 7600GT XXX which I thought it was already at the limit out of the box.

It came at 590/800 MHz DDR.

I got it up to 710/915! With no mods, no aftermarket cooling, no pencil tricks. In fact, if I raised it any further it just locked. No artifacts. Guess it just lacked some voltage. It was a great, great card.

I've always been very lucky with video card overclocks. Just check my x1950 Pro numbers, which supposedly can't overclock, not even 1 mhz.
 

error8

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I had a Leadtek 7600 Gt and with an aftermarket cooler and a volt mod, I got 740 mhz on the core and 800 mhz on the ram ( bad ram).
 

Gautama2

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Didn't do a voltmod, reached 670ish, as soon as I went to 680 the driver stopped responding. I backed it down to 660/860. Idle of 45, load of 65-70. Stock cooler with AS5. This is on a XFX 7600gt XXX edition.
 

Comdrpopnfresh

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Wow- seems the xfx cards are pretty damn good. Originally I had one of those, even the xxx edition (liked the 2-lifetime warranty), but had it for less than a day. When I plugged it in, the temperatures were idling in the 70's, and I didn't want any of that- perhaps I was mistaken...