[H]ard|OCP reviews MSI NX7600 GT VT2D256E GeForce 7600 GT video card
Perhaps you have $500 USD or more to spend on your video card. If you are like most people, however, you don't. Enter the mainstream video card market. The video cards occupying the $120 to $250 segment are tailor-made to fit the average gamer's budget requirements. ATI and NVIDIA are both happy to take whatever amount of money you are willing to depart with, so it is up to you to make an intelligent decision and get the most bang for your video card buck. We are here to make that decision easier for you.
Today, we have the Microstar International (MSI) NX7600 GT VT2D256E PCI-Express x16 video card to evaluate. It features 256 MB of GDDR3, running at 750 MHz DDR (1500 MHz effective) on a 128-bit bus. The GPU is clocked at 580 MHz, and has five vertex shader units, twelve pixel shader units, 24 ALUs and eight raster operators (ROPs). This card is factory overclocked, from a 560MHz stock core, and 700MHz stock memory. The NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT GPU is manufactured at 90 nanometers and has a total of about 178 million transistors...
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