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1. Luke said:

   Sounds good - the real question is how much did it set you back?

   Ever heard of Amway? Cheaper and delivered groceries - as well as heaps of other stuff. I’ve registered, if you’re interested, let me know, yeah? It’s pretty cool.

   Comment by Luke — September 25, 2006 @ 5:34 pm

2. visser said:

   Lock ups were caused by a dodge GeForce 7600 GT, returning it tomorrow and swapping it out for a better model.

   Grant total will have come to just under $2000 all up after this graphics card exchange.

   Comment by visser — September 25, 2006 @ 10:31 pm

3. visser said:

   Seems my GeForce 7600 GT was replaced - my woes continued however - after contacting ASUS support detailing my issue I was adviced to remove the IDE driver, install a beta audio driver and drop the PEG Link to “Slower”.

   I’ll know tomorrow if this fixes it.

   Comment by visser — October 15, 2006 @ 6:56 pm

4. visser said:

   The issue is resolved, faulty Samsung memory on the Albatron nVidia GeForce 7600 GT 256MB PCI-E was to blame. Now using a ASUS nVidia GeForce 7900GS 256MB PCI-E card running at performance levels without a hitch.

   Comment by visser — November 24, 2006 @ 8:04 pm

5. Update: Compatibility issue, ASUS M2N-SLI Duluxe and Albatron 7600 GT at Michael Visser said:

   [...] If you’re having issues with this card refer to my previous posts here and here. [...]

   Pingback by Update: Compatibility issue, ASUS M2N-SLI Duluxe and Albatron 7600 GT at Michael Visser — January 14, 2007 @ 11:20 am

6. Redleprechaun said:

   Visser this is a nice setup you have here but I would like to know more about the 7600gt you were using. I currently am using a BFG Nvidia Geforce 700gt 256mb GDDR ram and it too freezes during gameplay. I have upgraded drivers,PSU and it stays at about 56-75′c during gameplay. I would really not like to have to get a different card as i just got it recently and I am not Richie-Rich.

   Any advice and more detailed specs as to which 7600gt you used would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

   Comment by Redleprechaun — February 25, 2007 @ 6:45 pm

7. Michael said:

   Redleprechaun, we’re both in the same ‘not rich’ bag. I had originally purchased an Albatron NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (256MB), retailed less than $300 AUD at time of purchase. Take it back, it’s not worth spending time fixing something that is faulty. Allow them to play a memory intensive game and experience the issue; nick named the Billy Hill effect.

   Typically game play in Half Life 2 or F.E.A.R. - regardless of performance settings - would last under five minutes before all system activity ceased, this would cause an audible sound loop from the speakers and lock up the system, after 10-20 seconds on average the system would become responsive before shortly after looping again, from then on the loop would be more frequent, every 2-3 minutes, again lasting 10-20 seconds. Game play is impossible with these loops. If you put it the system through its paces long enough it would eventually cold reboot.

   Running Futuremark’s 3DMark 2007 in my case didn’t cause it to lock up like in games but it did show dramatic rendering performance issues.

   I had tried everything to resolve this issue, including:
   - reinstalling Windows several times incase of driver conflict (operating system)
   - updating to the latest system drivers; Direct X drivers, motherboard drivers, including separate sound-card which were suspected in causing performance issues
   - applying all available updates from Windows Update
   - rolling back to earlier releases of nVidia driver packs
   - installing unofficial nVidia driver packs
   - applying all Windows XP/AMD Dual-Core software fixes; AMD Dual Core Optimizer, AMD Dual-Core driver, Microsoft update KB896256 v4 (mirror link to v3),
   - applying copious memory/performance Windows registry fixes
   - disabling Windows hardware graphic acceleration
   - adjusting motherboard memory management settings

   Here are several resources you may wish you pass onto a technician or sales person when claiming your refund, good luck and let me know how it turns out.

   http://forumz.tomshardware.com/games/Dual-Core-supported-games-ftopict94969.html
   http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=983781

   Comment by Michael — February 25, 2007 @ 6:58 pm

8. Redleprechaun said:

   Thanks for your insight visser. I am still under the 30 day full refund warranty at futureshop so i am going to go get a BFG 7900 gs oc 256mb gddr from them. Now that I did some more research on the 7600 gt that i have, i wish i had seen it before and i NEVER would have purchased it. Did alot of checking up on the 7900gs and it seems like a great card and very stable too for 340$ (can) but this card should last me quite some time hopefully. I spent hours googling trying to figure out what was wrong and You have been a great help clearing things up for me .

   Thank you!

   Comment by Redleprechaun — February 28, 2007 @ 7:29 am

9. Chris said:

   i guess it depends on what reveiw you look at as to weather this card is good or not..the ones here say it’s bad but if you follow this link then it is all good.
   http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/videocards/article.php/3615856
   even beat some of the higher end cards.

   Comment by Chris — May 18, 2008 @ 7:06 am

10. Michael said:

    Hi Chris,

    That’s a great article, have you purchased the Albatron 7600GT 256MB? How did it go for you?

    Comment by Michael — June 7, 2008 @ 12:20 pm

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