ASUS: The EN7600 GS Silent, and EN7800 GT TOP Silent
by Josh Venning on May 12, 2006 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Test Setup/Performance
Now that we've talked about the cards and their overclocking abilities, let's look at their performance. We've included a few other cards for comparison to get an idea of how these cards rank in a general way. Included on the graphs we have the NVIDIA 7800 GTX, 6600 GT, and the ATI X1800 GTO and X1600 XT (along with our two silent ASUS cards). The games we are testing are Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Battlefield 2 and Quake 4, at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 resolutions. Here is the test system we used:NVIDIA nForce 4 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6 GHz Processor
1 GB OCZ 2:2:2:6 DDR400 RAM
Seagate 7200.7 120 GB Hard Drive
OCZ 600 W PowerStream Power Supply
*Note that sound was disabled for these tests.
Battlefield 2 Performance
Halflife 2: Lost Coast Performance
Quake 4 Performance
Of course these two silent cards are in a different league from each other in terms of performance. We mentioned that the EN7600 GS is more of a budget/mid range card and the EN7800 GT TOP Silent more on the high-end. The numbers here reflect this, and we can see that the 7600 GS has a little trouble running games very smoothly with high resolutions, particularly with Anti-aliasing enabled. It still does very well and (arguably) gets playable framerates in almost all of the games and settings.
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Seer - Friday, May 12, 2006 - link
I'm not sure where I saw it, but I saw one review of these cards in SLI. Try searching for 7800GT Top Silent Sli.Tiamat - Friday, May 12, 2006 - link
Probably could cook a hotdog on that heatsink no problem. Where was this temperature measured and how was it measured? Thermalcouple? Onboard sensor? Was this the core temp or temperature of a certain part of the heatsink? This included the CPU fan's forced convection to aid in the GPU heatsink's cooling?toyota - Friday, May 12, 2006 - link
i wonder why they didnt even mention that it runs hot as hell. those are pretty extreme temps.LoneWolf15 - Monday, May 15, 2006 - link
The temps may be high, but many of us have cases with a rear 120mm fan directly in the path of the 7800's heatsink. For those that do, this would almost certainly serve to take care of that issue.Cerb - Friday, May 12, 2006 - link
Yes, but still well below the level that nVidia thinks is hot enough to throttle for safety. Sacrifices must be made, and cool temperatures are one. I've now gotten used to anything under three digits being OK.Clauzii - Friday, May 12, 2006 - link
For someone not on a budget, the 7800GT looks like a good card for silent operation. This could be a card for me - if I were not an ATI fan :)No really, it looks nice this 7800GT...
bldckstark - Friday, May 12, 2006 - link
That's the whole idea of these cards, they have no fan!thesix - Saturday, May 13, 2006 - link
LOL, good one!Clauzii - Saturday, May 13, 2006 - link
Kicked all air out of me :)