NVIDIA and ATI have for sometime featured a number of products from the low to mid-range but it is only in the past few years in which we've seen the market absolutely flooded with product lines to fit almost every dollar range, every performance option, and to spread even minor $30 differences in relation to performance. The GeForce 7 series has been particularly active for NVIDIA, in addition to the dozens of overclocked or special editions and those with various amounts of memory. If there's a market segment for graphics cards, NVIDIA has it covered. One of the newer, lower end of the mid-range graphics cards is the GeForce 7600 GS. - AMDZone

EVGA e-GeForce 7600 GS 512MB Video Card Review

The EVGA e-GeForce 7600 GS 512MB card features a small heatsink with a fan to cool the GPU which takes up a small mount of space around the GPU. There are passively cooled GeForce 7600 cards out there though they cover more overall of the card. We don't believe a passive card is necessary though as one can barely hear the fan. It runs extremely cool and requires no external power unlike it's higher-end counter parts. In an unusual move the card features 512MB of memory as opposed to the 256MB standard of most cards in this class, which possibly could come in handy for higher resolutions.

The card's GPU core runs at 400MHz and the memory at 800MHz effective. While there are those who've been able to push the GeForce 7600 GS series rather far in overclocking the highest we could hit was 450MHz for the GPU core and 430MHz for the memory stable. Heat definitely was not a factor but we simply couldn't go any further with the card. No artifacts at all were encountered at this setting with which resulted in a minor speed boost. The card is basically the same as the GeForce 7600 GT though with much reduced clock speeds as the default GT comes in at 560/1400MHz.

The GeForce 7600 GS definitely isn't the most exciting card but what it does do is get the job done. For most casual gamers looking for a good card should have no qualms about purchasing the GeForce 7600 GS. Obviously if you're a hardcore gamer and you're looking to push Crysis and the next wave of titles then this one won't be for you but for the price it does it's job. The one thing we would disagree with is the 512MB of texture memory. If you go with the 256MB of the card you can shave another $30 off the price and pick up a card for about $90 and for that price range, the GeForce 7600 GS is very hard to beat.