Help with choosing an AGP Geforce 7600 GS Card

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Hello fellow CAGers,

Please help me in choosing the right (better?) 7600 GS card.
Right now, I have 2 candidates:
- PNY 7600 GS 512MS AGP
http://www2.pny.com/7600-GS-512MB-AGP--P1897C14.aspx

- eVGA e-Geforce 7600 GS
http://evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=256-A8-N542-AX&family=22

As you probably would have thought, both card are pretty similar. The only main difference between the two is in the memory:
- PNY has 512MB DDR-SDRAM (specs says it has 540 MHz effective, and 8.64GB/Sec. Memory Bandwidth)

-eVGA card has half that (256 MB) RAM, but it is DDR2 RAM. The specs says:
800 MHz (effective)
12.8 GB/s Memory Bandwidth

Now, should I go for speed (eVGA) or amount of memory (PNY)?

I have not upgraded my video card since the Geforce 5500 FX days (so slow...) and would like to pick a good AGP card to get it over with (since I am not planning to move to PCIe anytime soon).

Thanks for all the suggestions!!
 
[quote name='myqq']Hello fellow CAGers,

Please help me in choosing the right (better?) 7600 GS card.
Right now, I have 2 candidates:
- PNY 7600 GS 512MS AGP
http://www2.pny.com/7600-GS-512MB-AGP--P1897C14.aspx

- eVGA e-Geforce 7600 GS
http://evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=256-A8-N542-AX&family=22

As you probably would have thought, both card are pretty similar. The only main difference between the two is in the memory:
- PNY has 512MB DDR-SDRAM (specs says it has 540 MHz effective, and 8.64GB/Sec. Memory Bandwidth)

-eVGA card has half that (256 MB) RAM, but it is DDR2 RAM. The specs says:
800 MHz (effective)
12.8 GB/s Memory Bandwidth

Now, should I go for speed (eVGA) or amount of memory (PNY)?

I have not upgraded my video card since the Geforce 5500 FX days (so slow...) and would like to pick a good AGP card to get it over with (since I am not planning to move to PCIe anytime soon).

Thanks for all the suggestions!![/quote]

Go with speed. Extra RAM won't do you any good. Unless you're running ungodly resolutions, you wouldn't even need the 256.
 
Thanks! I am running a relatively old P4 2.4GHz (w/1GB RAM)...no plan to run those ultra-super-HD vga resolutions. As long as I can get a decent framerate (which my 5500FX couldn't do), I am happy.

I'll go with the eVGA card then. Thanks Quillion!
 
I've been eyeing the AGP 7600GS's for a few weeks now, but am waiting for the faster AGP 7600GT's to finally hit the market instead. Would be a great update from the 9500 Pro in my Shuttle and isn't ungodly large and overpriced like the AGP 7800GS is.
 
Well, I've personally had a bad experience with a PNY card. Basically my card broke (artifacts on screen) and I couldn't get a replacement because of the way their warrenty works. They claim to have a "lifetime" warrenty, but it's actually the shelf lifetime of the card. So if your card is even a little out of date you're outta luck.

I suggest going for a BFG card. Like this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143069 at Newegg.
 
Thanks for the help! The BFG card is actually a combination of both PNY (512MB RAM) and eVGA (type of RAM).

The price is also within my range.

Thank you very much!
 
Really ($200)? Let me check it out. Can I ask you which company's card (PNY, eVGA, BFG, others) did you get?

Is 7800GS a lot better than 7600GS?
 
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