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EVGA e-GeForce 7600GS 512 MB PCIe Video Card with Fan | 
| Brand: EVGA
Category: CE
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 16550
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
Graphics RAM: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 12 x 2 x 9
MPN: 512-P2-N548-TX
Model: 512-P2-N548-TX
UPC: 819829005185
EAN: 0819829005185
ASIN: B000FZ50GO
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| Features:
| • | PCI-Express video card with 512 MB of 128 bit DDR2 memory | | • | Full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 | | • | Intellisample 4.0 Technology for ultra-realistic visuals at lightning-fast speeds | | • | NVIDIA SLI Technology allows two graphics cards to run simultaneously | | • | HDTV Encoder for HDTV-out functionality up to 1920x1080i resolutions |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The eVGA 512-P2-N548-TX NVIDIA e-GeForce 7600GS 512 MB PCI-E Graphics Card features 512 MB of 128 bit DDR2 memory with a 12.8 GB-per-second memory bandwidth. The e-GeForce 7600GS 400 MHz graphics processing unit (GPU) allows you to experience the latest gaming effects without compromising performance. Designed to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture, the card's bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X, delivering over 4 GB-per-second in both upstream and downstream data transfers. The card is built with NVIDIA's CineFX 4.0 Engine, which delivers advanced visual effects at unimaginable speeds. Full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 enables stunning and complex special effects, while next-generation shader architecture with new texture unit design streamlines texture processing for faster and smoother gameplay. NVIDIA Intellisample 4.0 technology offers the industry's fastest antialiasing, delivering ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. Visual quality is taken to new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern, advanced 128 tap sample coverage, 16x anisotropic filtering, and support for transparent supersampling and multisampling. NVIDIA's SLI technology dramatically scales performance by allowing two graphics cards to be run in parallel, while the integrated HDTV Encoder provides world-class HDTV-out functionality up to and including 1920x1080i resolutions.
Product Description
The NVIDIA SLI-Ready GeForce 7600 graphics processing units (GPUs) unleash extreme HD gaming and video on the PC. Featuring the award-winning GeForce 7 Series architecture, the GeForce 7600 GPUs deliver smooth, realistic gaming at ultra-high resolutions. Additionally, the GeForce 7600 GPUs bring high-definition, home-theater quality video to the PC through the acclaimed NVIDIA PureVideo technology.
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| Customer Reviews:
 3 Capacitors blew out at the same time after 10 months of use February 16, 2008
William Somers
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this card because I wanted DVI input for my LCD monitor. The picture was greatly improved over analog. This card does not run Medal of Honor well and Runs Call to Duty poorly. I was somewhat hesitant to put a card in my computer that has a fan but with some trepidation I did it anyway. That fear was realized this morning when my monitor was blank and my office had a faint electrical fire odor. Shortly thereafter the computer shut itself down. I opened it up and removed the card and there it was, a frozen fan and 3 blown capacitors. The tops of the capacitors were actually exploded at the top. I am very happy that the motherboard circuit breakers worked and saved my system. I would not recommend this product.
 I know how to use computers, but that's about it... January 12, 2008
Andrew Arnold (Simi Valley, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like I said- I know how to use computers, I know what Hard drives are, I know what RAM is etc. The very basics... I have a Sony Vaio VGC RB40 with a Pentium 4 chip... not really a gaming machine, but I figured I'd at least be able to play year-old, or two-year old games with it. I wanted to see what all the fuss PC gaming was about. I bought "Call of Duty 1" shortly after I got the machine, and the game didn't play right. The video card (224mb) couldn't really handle the game. I put it aside, and went back to my trusty PS2. A couple years later, I stumbled upon this card one night... checked the price, then searched for a better price (couldn't find one) and I took a leap of faith and bought the damn thing. The next day I regretted my decision. But, the card came. I wasn't going to chicken out now. I had heard horror stories about trying to add hardware to a PC and screwing it up because of a static charge you've built up. GREAT!!! Well, I forged ahead. Opened the package, learned that if the current video card was integrated (mine was) you might have to 'disable it on the motherboard' whatever the hell *that* meant. Undaunted, I forged ahead. I followed the instructions, which were pretty clear cut (except that when pushing the card into the slot there was a little tab on the motherboard slot that I had to hold down to get the card seated properly). I got the card installed, closed up the case and put the thing back together convinced that I had screwed up my PC...
Lo and behold, I fired the thing up, the card + the driver disc I then installed worked like a CHAMP!!! Suffice it to say that I'm now happily playing Call of Duty 1 on my machine and plan to buy more PC games. Heck, if I can do it, anyone can!
Great Card for Older Games November 30, 2007
J. JAGELLA (Williamsport, PA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I configured this card with a system in April 2007. It's a great card for games that came out two years or so ago and older. Far Cry, for instance, runs smoothly at high settings but jitters a bit at maximum settings. The same can be said for Age of Empires III and Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault. I can run Unreal Tournament 2003 and No One Lives Forever II at maximum settings with pefectly smooth gameplay.
The latest games really could use a better card than this one. Crysis, Bioshock, and Unreal Tournament III run decently and are playable, but the graphics jitter a lot and don't look nearly as good as 2007 graphics might.
My verdict is that unless you MUST play the latest games at high settings with smooth gameplay, then this card is very good. For the price, it's an excellent value. But if you want a good card for the latest games, then definately pass on this card.
dependable August 14, 2007
Peoples National Bank (valier, il usa)
the EVGA e-GeForce 7600GS 512 MB PCIe Video Card with Fan is a very dependable card and sli with another one it is fast enough for todays games
 Great video card May 12, 2007
B. Smith (Portsmouth, NH)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This card installed without a hitch. (Windows Vista)
You'll want to download the latest drivers from nVidia's web site. This isn't the fastest GPU, but with 512MB I think this card packs the best performance for the price. The ability to run 2 monitors is also a plus.
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