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With features identical to those of its faster 7600 GT brethren, the 7600 GS lacks only the core and memory clockspeeds; however, the GT's clockspeeds are so much higher that the GS pales in comparison. Nevertheless, the 7600 GS is a good performer in the segment, compared to the X800 GTO and X1650 PRO.

The new X1650 PRO is a re-dressed X1600 XT with slightly higher clockspeeds. The efficient shaders and very high memory speed for this class help the X1650 PRO compare well to the 12-pipeline 7600 GS, beating it by a small margin in most benchmarks.

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The 7600 GT is an amazing card for this price range, sporting new SM 3.0 technology and featuring very high clock speeds to deliver excellent performance. Its weakest feature is its 128-bit memory bus, but its high memory speeds offset that disadvantage and make it competitive with 256-bit cards like the X850 XT.

At stock speeds, the X1800 GTO is a great deal, trading blows with the stock 7600 GT. However, the X1800 GTO has some major advantages over the 7600 GT when overclocked and modified.

The X1800 GTO is no longer widely available, but has been spotted in the range in the month of December. At this price it is an excellent deal.