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#835 - Leadtek WinFast PX7600 GS TDH |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
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Installation:
Installing the Leadtek WinFast PX7600 GS TDH was very easy. First download the newest drivers from the nVidia’s website. Next remove all software relating to your previous video card’s installation. In our case, we needed to remove the ATI Catalyst software and drivers. As always for good measure, uninstall your previous display adapter from the device manager. At this point you should already be assuming that we are using Windows…
Now turn your computer completely off, remove the old video card and install the new Leadtek PX7600 GS. Turn on the computer and run the driver installation you just downloaded. We never even experienced a hiccup during installation.
Over clocking was a snap using the nVidia software control panel. We were able to find a stable over clock at 550mhz (GPU) and 450mhz (Mem) from the stock 490mhz and 350mhz respectively. Not too shabby for not implementing any voltage modifications nor GPU Bios flashing. Also nice to see was a 100mhz jump on the memory without even making contact with the heatsink! This card could obviously make a few more bounds up the OC’ing chain with a proper third part cooling solution. For testing we did the normal gaming benchmarks, plus a temperature report with no extra cooling and with a CoolIT Systems PCI Booster. For testing of the Leadtek WinFast PX7600 GS TDH Classic Edition, we used the following hardware:
Enclosure: CM Stacker (STC-T01) (Noctua NF-S12 fans intake/exhaust)
Power Supply: Ultra
X3 1000watt
Processor: AMD 3800+ X2 (Socket AM2)
Motherboard: ECS
KA3 MVP
Memory: Crucial
Ballistix 2gig (2 x 1gig) DDR2 PC2-6400
Video: Leadtek PX7600 GS TDH Classic Edition (Passive)
Storage: Seagate 7200.10 320 GB SATA2
Optical: Plextor PX-740UF PATA
Results:
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