A few more frequency jumps quick brought us to 630 MHz, and then the GPU voltage needed another small bump up. With 1.34V feeding the GeForce 7600GS GPU, PCSTATS was able to overclock it to a maximum speed of 680 MHz. Above this speed the V-Ranger test tool complained of instability. Further voltage increases didn't help either... and more than likely heat may have been the culprit as V-Ranger reported the GPU running at close to 70 degrees Celsius! If you plan to heavily overclock the Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS, and leave it that way, do yourself a favor and slap on a good Zalman VF900-Cu VGA heatsink.

With the Geforce 7600 core already overclocked to 560 MHz, we used Biostar's V-Ranger software to increasing the core voltage to 1.21V (stock is 1.149V), and began overclocking the GPU in 5 MHz steps. That slight voltage bump allowed the videocard to do 585 MHz, but to go even higher the GPU required more juice... With 1.25V supplied, the Geforce 7600GS overclocked past 600 MHz. Pretty awesome eh? We're not even done yet.

We ran into a bit of a problem shortly thereafter because V-Ranger's memory frequency maxes out at 1680 MHz, and the videocard GDDR3 had no problem whatsoever running at that speed with 1.9V. To overclock past 1680MHz we had to adjust voltage options in V-Ranger and overclock the speed in the other utility, Sigma-Gate.

The voltage options that the Biostar V-Ranger overclocking utility provides can go high enough to damage your hardware. The disclaimer wouldn't be there if this tool didn't pack a serious punch, so use it carefully. Be nice to your videocard, and use caution when overclocking with increased voltages. Make certain the videocard has sufficient cooling, and that voltages are only increased as much as is absolutely necessary. And remember above all else, overclocking more than likely voids a stack of warranties. :-)

RADEON™ X800 PRO Chipset Features and Specifications
• Twelve extreme parallel pixel pipelines
• Six programmable vertex shader pipelines
• 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
• AGP 8X support
• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shadersl data format
• Direct X 9.0 Vertex Shaders - Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control - Single cycle trigonometric operations.
• Direct X 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders - Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass - 2nd generation F-buffer technology accelerates multi-pass pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions - 32 temporary and constant registers - Facing register for two-sided lighting - 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats - Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes - Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling - Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes - Up to 128-tap texture filtering - Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options • High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
• Works with any two-channel data format
• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
• VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration - DXVA Support - Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)
• 0.13-micron low-k process technology for higher levels of integration and higher operating clock speeds.
• Operating Systems Support Windows® XP / 2000
• Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability • 2D Display Modes: Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates(Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors.

GV-3D1-7950-RH

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a world-leading VGA card manufacturer, today announces the GV-3D1-7950-RH that features the GeForce 7950 GX2 of graphics processors. With dual GPUs, the GV-3D1-7950-RH offers the latest SLITM technology. Equipped with the worldwide 1st 1GB DDR3 memory, GV-3D1-7950-RH make the customers able to experience the latest XHD game effect. Following the convention of 3D1, GV-3D1-7950-RH is equipped with latest SLITM technology and 1GB DDR3 memory, which could make your video experience to extreme high definition image quality.




GV-3D1-7950-RH
Powered by NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 GPU
Supports PCI Express and 48 pipelines
Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support
Integrated with the industry's best 1GB GDDR3 memory and 512-bit memory interface
Supports SLI and PureVideo technology
Features DVI-I / D-SUB / TV-OUT / HDTV

Specification Chipset NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 Memory 1GB Memory Bus 512 bit Memory Type DDRIII 16Mx32 PCB Form ATX Bus Type PCI-E Bus Speed 16 D-SUB Y TV-OUT Y DVI Port Y VIVO N Multi View Y

Gigabyte VGA Empire

Taipei, Taiwan----6th August, 2003 Taipei, Taiwan, Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. today announces new games bundling with her VGA Empire. They are Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness™, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six™3: Raven Shield™ and Will Rock come with selected models of Gigabyte’s VGA Empire, including series of ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 9600 Pro, 9600, 9600SE, 9200 and R9200SE VPU based of graphics accelerators.
Published by Eidos, The Tomb Raider series has sold in excess of 28 million copies worldwide across the six titles released to date. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness presents PC gamers with a new look Lara, explosive action and a gripping story in Lara’s greatest adventure yet.
While, Rainbow Six™: Raven Shield™ is the third game in the Rainbow Six franchise, which has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. The Rainbow Six franchise is known for its action-packed game play and heart-stopping realism, and Rainbow Six™: Raven Shield ™ is continuing the tradition. Lead the elite anti-terrorist unit called Rainbow into a series of high-risk missions, carefully planned tactics and intense firefights are your keys to success. Will Rock is a first-person shooter filled with exaggerated voices, booming audio, and a mishmash of music to entertain PC game lovers.
All above three games apply Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0. This technology reaches an outstanding 3D graphics performance through Gigabyte high levels of graphics accelerators; such as GV-R96128D, GV-R96P128DH, GV-R96P128D, GV-R96256DH, GV-R98P128D and GV-R98P256D. It enables billions of color variations to render the same lighting and effects as Hollywood studios, and deliver the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing frame rates.
“Those popular games help users experience the power of Gigabyte graphics accelerators.” Said David Chiang, General Manager of Channel Business. He also highlights “Integrating not only the leading hardware technologies but also software advantages is what Gigabyte VGA Empire would like to offer to end-users.” The new bundling package provides excellent add on benefit and that is expected to satisfy PC game players and reach a sales peak during the summer.
About Gigabyte TechnologyFounded in 1986, Gigabyte Technology has built an unshakable reputation and solid foundation in the computer industry on the reliability of its motherboards and add-on card products. In diversifying from this solid base, Gigabyte Technology is devoting it’s resources to expanding into new product lines, such as desktop platform solutions, servers, broadband routers, Gigabit switches, wireless LAN, and NAS (Network Attached Storage) appliances.
With a talented, resourceful infrastructure and design capability, from Motherboard, VGA, Desktop Platform, to Communication and Server, Gigabyte Technology has developed a full-scale product network, not only creating the ideal platform for the world of Internet connectivity but also resulting in new concepts in most all aspects of our lives. In the coming information appliance age, Gigabyte Technology is users’ premier companion to brighten people’s mind-scope and future life.
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