Gigabyte - Rev. 3 7600GT Silent

lemmy · Post by **lemmy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:07 pm

I replaced the x800se with this card from Newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814125057

In my super quiet (damn near silent) Dell 4700, Intel 551(3.4Ghz)

It's Rev. 3 of the card - just came out. Gigabyte website doesn't even show the new heatsink type.

Installed the card, fired up the PC, temps right at 45 degrees. After a solid 2 hours of CounterStrike-Source (1280x1024), card was at 57 degrees. These readings are from RivaTuner.

I'm pleased I waited to make my purchase.

lemmy · Post by **lemmy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:05 pm

I'm an idiot - posted wrong link - link fixed.

Fungi · Post by **Fungi** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:05 pm

That's a very nice card. I don't see any heatpipes though

angelkiller · Post by **angelkiller** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:45 pm

Hey I was browsing earlier and saw that!! There's also a HDMI version. Linky. It's HDMI, silent, and and single slot! You can't spell HTPC any nicer than that!

ajemm · Post by **ajemm** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:54 pm

angelkiller wrote:Hey I was browsing earlier and saw that!! There's also a HDMI version. Linky. It's HDMI, silent, and and single slot! You can't spell HTPC any nicer than that!

Very nice

Shaman · Post by **Shaman** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:17 am

Fungi wrote:That's a very nice card. I don't see any heatpipes though

The description says "Unique "Silent Pipe II" Design", so there's one or more hiding in there somewhere.

plympton · Post by **plympton** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:25 am

FINALLY a silent single-slot 7600GT design - yeah!!

Pooh - it's probably too bit to fit in a HTPC case such as the Antec Fusion or NSK2400... DANG!!!!

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(Well, not without cutting a slot in the top of the case...)

-Dan

angelkiller · Post by **angelkiller** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:56 am

I don't know if this is good or bad news but, Newegg no longer sells Gigabyte's old passive 7600gt. You know, the one that takes up two slots. Linky. I liked the two slot design because it was partly cooled with air outside of the case. I can only hope this design runs at least as cool as its predecessor.

Meato · Post by **Meato** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:25 am

Pricing for the nVidia 7-series is still outrageous! Budget 8-series cards are right around the corner. I'll save my money.

autoboy · Post by **autoboy** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:05 am

Meato wrote:Pricing for the nVidia 7-series is still outrageous! Budget 8-series cards are right around the corner. I'll save my money.

Plus the Purevideo features have improved in the 8 series. Acceleration should be very good with the new programable video accelerator and other great features like IVTC that used to use the shaders on 7 series cards now have access to all the programable shaders in the unified designs.

lemmy · Post by **lemmy** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:57 pm

The Gigabyte's low power requirement (no new PSU needed - strong DELL unit), solid performance, and a years worth of silicon tweaking means a solid unit for me. I know the 8 series is coming out, but some of that extra stuff just doesn't make a difference in my quiet, cool, and solid need for the forseeable future.

I tried an x1650xt in my rig - the HIS two slot unit with the 70mm exhaust fan - what a racket that thing created. You can't control or monitor the fan speed on the unit. And even though it's built on an 80nm process, it was still surprisingly hot. Not quiet as advertised and heat created = not good for my rig.

nick705 · Post by **nick705** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:02 am

plympton wrote:FINALLY a silent single-slot 7600GT design - yeah!!

Pooh - it's probably too bit to fit in a HTPC case such as the Antec Fusion or NSK2400... DANG!!!! (

(Well, not without cutting a slot in the top of the case...)

-Dan

Check this out.

Oddly, it's exactly the same model number as the HDMI one at Newegg, but a different heatsink design. It's listed on Gigabyte's website as "coming soon," but no more pics yet, so who knows...

Steep · Post by **Steep** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:49 am

nick705 wrote: Check this out.

Very nice find! I've been struggling with my HTPC case decision for a few weeks because of the "will it fit into a Fusion" question.

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:57 am

Shaman wrote:
Fungi wrote:That's a very nice card. I don't see any heatpipes though
The description says "Unique "Silent Pipe II" Design", so there's one or more hiding in there somewhere.

I belieive heat pipe or two are horizontally blaced beneath that heatsink, like in passive cooled 7600-series from MSI, where copper heatpipe was embed inside that big aluminium heatsink horizontally.

lemmy · Post by **lemmy** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:35 pm

Yeah - there appears to be some type of heatpipe designed into the cooling. It does a bit of heft to it too. The card has several slotted openings by the DVI connectors as well.

You've got to figure that with a years worth of chip revisions that they wouldn't have gone away from the successful two slot design unless the new Rev. 3 cooling could match or beat it. I believe that the mature Nvidia chip design/process are the reasons for a cooler and more efficient running card.

Silence is golden.

plympton · Post by **plympton** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:41 pm

Steep wrote:
nick705 wrote: Check this out.
Very nice find! I've been struggling with my HTPC case decision for a few weeks because of the "will it fit into a Fusion" question.

I was wondering when Gigabyte was going to put that cooler on a 7600GT - seeing how the 7600GS is just a down-clocked 7600GT (and a pipe or 4 shut off), it was only a matter of time.

Now I'm just waiting for LCD TV's that don't give me headaches....

-Dan

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:39 am

damn. I want a 8600GT with that cooler nick posted.

Yeti · Post by **Yeti** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:58 pm

I have the older 7600GT, and it's been a great card! I did have some issues with the heatsink vibrating, at first, but it's stopped since.

I agree with the above, to wait for budget 8800s, since it's a whole generation ahead.

bgtees · Post by **bgtees** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:03 pm

It gets better - there's a $30 rebate for this card that's good until 3/31. I don't know why this isn't listed on the Newegg page, but if you go to the Newegg rebate center it's there:

http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesf ... 07cx16.pdf

Anyone see any reason why it shouldn't be valid?

nick705 · Post by **nick705** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:23 am

Steep wrote:
Very nice find! I've been struggling with my HTPC case decision for a few weeks because of the "will it fit into a Fusion" question.

I hope I didn't give people false hope with that.

I have a feeling Scan may just be showing the wrong image (the passive 7600GS HDMI card), even though the specs are for the 7600GT.

The heatsink looks a bit measly for cooling a 7600GT, and I'd guess the image at Newegg is the correct one. Sorry, Fusion owners...

iatacs19 · Post by **iatacs19** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:25 am

This card looks awesome, except it's too long to fit inside my Dell optiplex 745 desktop FF.

I went with the MSI 7600GS instead because I would need extra 1/2 in of clearance.

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:04 pm

ok, in that case, I wonder what would happen to the temps if you sawed off the top half inch of the heatsink.....

lemmy · Post by **lemmy** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:26 am

klankymen wrote:ok, in that case, I wonder what would happen to the temps if you sawed off the top half inch of the heatsink.....

Taking a saw to it

I'm still chuckling.

nikkai · Post by **nikkai** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:35 am

If you don't trust the setup,

You could always buy an eVGA 7600gt for around 100, then slap an S2 on it which would come out to be around the same price with proven results...

bgtees · Post by **bgtees** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:51 pm

Finally got my card installed today - runs silent (obviously)...after playing Counterstrike the temp never exceeded 70 degrees. Great card, very happy...hopefully the rebate will come through and make the deal even better.

nightmorph · Post by **nightmorph** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:18 pm

Steep · Post by **Steep** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:04 am

nick705 wrote:I hope I didn't give people false hope with that. I have a feeling Scan may just be showing the wrong image (the passive 7600GS HDMI card), even though the specs are for the 7600GT.

Doh! You're right. Now I'll just have to wait and see what comes out in the next few months. I'd really like to see a late model graphics card with a passive heatsink that can take up 2 whole slots for all I care, just so long as it's not "tall".

klankymen: I too thought about dremeling off the top half inch of that heatsink

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:49 pm

Had anybody heard about the G73 die shrink? Apparently these chips are @ 80nm now. Maybe this is the reason for the update to a single-slot passive solution. Was replacing the cooling on my eVGA 7600GT and it appears to use the 80nm die (part # G73-GT-N-B1). If anybody happens to rip the heatsink off their Gigabyte 7600GT SilentPipe III check out the part number printed on the die, I'm willing to bet it's 80nm as well.

I'm just surprised there hasn't been more talk about this. The news on the shrink is a few months old, but I just recently learned about it. All the G80 and R600 news must be pushing it off the front page.

zigner · Post by **zigner** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:14 am

plympton wrote:FINALLY a silent single-slot 7600GT design - yeah!!

Pooh - it's probably too bit to fit in a HTPC case such as the Antec Fusion or NSK2400... DANG!!!! (

(Well, not without cutting a slot in the top of the case...)

-Dan

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=565723

*Please note that GV-NX76T256D-RH (rev.3.0) will occupy two slots from your PC.

nick705 · Post by **nick705** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:00 pm

zigner wrote: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=565723

*Please note that GV-NX76T256D-RH (rev.3.0) will occupy two slots from your PC.

That heatsink design is too tall to fit into a Fusion/NSK2400, that's the whole point.

There's apparently a 7600GT from XFX coming up which seems more promising, although again it looks very much like their existing 7600GS design - pic at Madshrimps, about 2/3 of the way down.

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