A closer look

     The heatpipe does a good job of keeping the 7600GT cool.  During gaming and even overclocking the 7600GT never got higher than 54C and idled right around 41C.

     The 7600GT is a 90nm GPU that runs at 560MHz and has 12 pipelines.  It only has 128-bit memory interface compared to 256-bit on the 7900 series, but we shouldn't see too big of a hit with that.

     The memory that is used is Hynix.  If you want to know what all of the numbers in the part number mean you can use this memory decoder. The main numbers that I'm concerned with are the -14 at the end.  That signifies the speed of the memory and the 14 means 700MHz.  That is what the memory comes clocked to so overclocking headroom will be at a minimum.