Forsa 7600GS Reviews

Anew name in the graphics card market in India, Forsa’s 7600GS is based around NVIDIA’s mid-level 7 series chipset, the 7600GS. Like the mighty 7900 GTX, this chip, too, is manufactured using NVIDIA’s latest 90 nm fabrication process. The core is clocked at a sedate 400 MHz, while the 256 MB of GDDR2 memory is clocked at 800 MHz. The 7600GS is an underclocked variant of the 7600 GT core, the successor of the much-acclaimed 6600 GT. This, coupled with the 12 pixel shader / 5 vertex shader architecture, means that this card is reasonably well equipped to run all but the most demanding games (such as F.E.A.R and Oblivion), and at all but the most demanding resolutions. The 7600GS chipset fully supports Shader model 3.0, coupled with NVIDIA’s Cine FX 4.0. All this means you won’t miss out on the
eye candy, and can crank up the visuals to high settings in most games. The card is nicely laid out with a decent cooler and silent fan combo, which keeps temperatures in check efficiently.
The Forsa 7600GS performed decently in our tests—43-odd frames in DOOM 3 at 1024 x 768 at ultra high settings with 4x Anti-Aliasing enabled is not by any means bad. The card
does take a hit with AA and AF enabled, and as the Far Cry test shows, enabling newer features
such as HDR (High Dynamic Range) will further take a toll. For the gamer on a budget who can do without the over-the-top eye candy like AA and HDR, you’ll be rewarded with some sweet frame rates, and since you only shell out Rs 6,700, the deal’s sweet. We were impressed by the frames we got in F.E.A.R, very decent for such a card, since this game engine brings even the fastest cards down to a crawl! Forsa is a little skimpy on the bundled contents though—no games, and only a single S-Video connector. For a mid-range card, we’d have appreciated at least one full-version game
Specifications:
NVIDIA GeForce 7600GS chipset, 256 MB DDR2 memory, core speed 400 MHz, SM 3.0 support, NVIDIA’s Cine FX 4.0...

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