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XFX 7600GT Fatal1ty Edition Reviews

So Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendell gets his nickname endorsed by yet another gaming brand. XFX joins Creative, Abit, and Zalman in this respect. The XFX 7600GT Fatal1ty Edition is seriously more than just another G73 wannabe. It sports a completely fanless design, opting instead for a silent albeit bulkier heatpipe-heatsink design. The memory is cooled by discrete metal strips that have nothing to do with the heatpipe solution which evidently only cools the GPU. As expected, the solution is decidedly bulky, cooling a core like the G73 (basically a stripped down version of NVIDIA’s formidable 7900GTX a.k.a. the G70 chipset). Part of the radiator-looking cooling fins extend to the reverse of the card; ditto the heatpipes. What’s good is the heatpipes are not glued to the heatsink. Rather, they’re soldered, which aids thermal dissipation. We tested the 7600GT with a more than modest Core 2 Duo X6800 with 2 GB of DDR2 800 MHz memory. The XFX 7600GT brings up 7041 3D2005 Marks, about on par with other cards based on the same core. F.E.A.R. brings up 85 fps at maximum settings with a resolution of 1024 x 768. This makes the 7600GT a very decent solution for current-generation games at toned-down settings. Once the resolution and settings were cranked up, we found the 7600GT Fatal1ty wanting; but then again, the G73 isn’t exactly top-of-the-line; nor was it intended to be even in its heyday. At Rs 11,500, XFX’s Fatal1ty Edition will provide any PC with some perky multimedia performance while not adding to system noise. Gamers will look elsewhere, as the G73 is an outdated core. For all other NVIDIA, fans the DirectX 10 replacements to the 7600GT (GeForce 8600 and 8300) are already close to seeing Indian shores. Irrespective of your needs, we suggest holding your horses, umm, wallets a bit longer and look at the way things play out.
Specifications:
core: G73 core @ 560 MHz; memory: 256 MB GDDR3 @ 1400 MHz; dual DVI outs...

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