Advantages: Silent, Excellent performance, Great Ram Disadvantages: none
This is one great card, a bargain at the price, and you just cant go past a GT with a passive heatsink and GDDR3 Ram.
I bought this 256Mb Card, after previously owning the budget 7600GS, thinking it would be a small improvement, well let me set the record straight by saying that for the small price difference (approx 30%) over the budget card, you get a bunch more bang for your buck.
First and foremost the Ram on the card is DDR3, giving better timings, faster speeds, and lower temperatures. Which is ideal because this card is passively cooled by an oversized heatsink (the heatsink is the size of the whole card) and the card takes up two slots for heat ventilation so make sure you have a spare PCI slot next to your PCI-Express slot.
Performance wise the card is very impressive, the core is clocked at GT Speeds, and even allows ...
Advantages: Very fast, AGP Disadvantages: Very expensive, power-hungry
At time of writing this is the fastest AGP graphics card you can buy (though it may be soon overshadowed by the ATI X1950Pro). As the first reviewer stated, it makes an incredible difference to games and makes advanced options like High Dynamic Range, Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering possible where before I had them turned off (I also have a 5950 Ultra).
I *did* have problems with 3D titles not working on my Asus KT-600 a while after I first got it. I contacted Gainward and they weren't particularly quick in replying though I believe they were correct in identifying the Power Supply as being insufficient (though why the card should work for 3 months before encountering problems was never explained). Thankfully I managed to install it in another PC with a 550W PSU and have experienced no problems with that one (Asrock KT-880 ...
