Emtek 7600GT zalman edition with 3 jumpers!!!

luismenendez · 28 Jul 2006 at 12:25

Hello folks,

I just bought a new OEM Emtek 7600GT zalman cooler edition and the card is quite different to the reference design: it has 3 jumpers :eek:

and I wonder if they are for modifiying volts etc. The capacitors are in different positions as well.

The brand is new for me and is Emtek (made in china of course). 3DMark05 at default speed is about 5800 (just about 400 improvement from my overclocked 6800 vanilla)

The default speed are 560 and 1400 and nibitor reads 1.3v for the core and the timmings are very relaxed comparing with a XFX 7600GT xxx bios. I don't know the memory make as they are covered by heatsinks.

anybody has the same card? what are the 3 jumpers for?

thanks,

Cyber-Mav · 28 Jul 2006 at 12:41

post a picture of the card but the jumpers could be for selecting tv out via ntsc or pal?

Raikiri · 28 Jul 2006 at 12:45

May also be for a dual BIOS which some cards have, you mess one up you simply boot from the other and reflash the one you messed up.

Speed · 28 Jul 2006 at 13:34

Cyber-Mav said:
post a picture of the card but the jumpers could be for selecting tv out via ntsc or pal?

I think that what you said is more than likely right, from what I've seen most jumpers on graphics cards are for switching between NTSC or PAL.

killer_uk · 28 Jul 2006 at 13:37

Speed: I don't think you are allowed to ask for them either

Speed · 28 Jul 2006 at 13:40

killer_uk said:
Speed: I don't think you are allowed to ask for them either

I think you are right, having just found the rules for that. It's now been removed, so thanks for the head's up.

luismenendez · 28 Jul 2006 at 20:06

I think is the galaxy 7600Gt xtreme edition which has the jumpers to control the volts. The look exactly the same, apart of the cooler, but my one clocks a bit slower.

I need now to find a manual

luismenendez · 28 Jul 2006 at 20:17

luismenendez said:
I think is the galaxy 7600Gt xtreme edition which has the jumpers to control the volts. The look exactly the same, apart of the cooler, but my one clocks a bit slower.

I need now to find a manual

I found it : http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/347/

are we allow to put links? if not sorry and please delete it :confused:

killer_uk · 28 Jul 2006 at 20:19

luismenendez said:
I find it : http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/347/

are we allow to put links? if not sorry and please delete it

Yeah, should be fine

Speed · 29 Jul 2006 at 00:41

luismenendez said:
I found it : http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/347/

are we allow to put links? if not sorry and please delete it

Links to reviews are fine, links to suppliers and other stores are not. So that's fine, as for the card in the link that's a 7600GS, thought you said you had a 7600GT?

Yewen · 29 Jul 2006 at 02:04

Links to sites with a lot of competitor advertising however are not.

Best way to do it when the review site is full of OcUK competitors is to do this:

Guru3d said:
your quote...

Then the person can look on the site if they want to make sure your not lying, but your not running the risk of competitors on a rotating advert.

Best to use your better judgement, half page competitor adverts are not ok, but a competitor mentioned 20 links deep into the site would be ok. Posting competitors intentionally in the body of a link review site or not of course is not allowed.

Speed · 1 Aug 2006 at 09:01

luismenendez said:
I found it : http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/347/

are we allow to put links? if not sorry and please delete it

Does your card look like one of the front two in this picture?

http://www.mark-lewis.me.uk/images/7600gtzalman.jpg

luismenendez · 1 Aug 2006 at 23:09

Speed said:
Does your card look like one of the front two in this picture?

http://www.mark-lewis.me.uk/images/7600gtzalman.jpg

nope but I wish to

It looks like the one of the link I put before.

It clocks gaming stable to 650/1510 which is not to bad

Speed · 1 Aug 2006 at 23:14

luismenendez said:
nope but I wish to

It looks like the one of the link I put before.

It clocks gaming stable to 650/1510 which is not to bad

That's from the Emtek website, so you maybe right and it is a Galaxy. Did you happen to get it off the bay? I only ask as I've spotted 7600GT's with voltage jumpers on there. If you didn't it might be worth a look.

luismenendez · 3 Aug 2006 at 01:34

Speed said:
That's from the Emtek website, so you maybe right and it is a Galaxy. Did you happen to get it off the bay? I only ask as I've spotted 7600GT's with voltage jumpers on there. If you didn't it might be worth a look.

yeah I got it from there.

To be honest don't care about volts mods yet as I play BF2 and farcry 64bits and the card is powerfull enough even at stock speed with max quality. What I notice is a big decrease in fraps using vsync on in games and 3Dmark05 and I don't understand why :confused:

Speed · 3 Aug 2006 at 09:41

luismenendez said:
yeah I got it from there.

To be honest don't care about volts mods yet as I play BF2 and farcry 64bits and the card is powerfull enough even at stock speed with max quality. What I notice is a big decrease in fraps using vsync on in games and 3Dmark05 and I don't understand why

Vsync limits your FPS to your monitors refresh rate, therefore reducing performance.

dagwoood · 6 Aug 2006 at 15:19

I've got one of these Emtek cards, as per luismenendez I got it off of an auction site and wandered what the jumpers were for.

Must say I'm really impressed with how cool it runs. Idles between 40-45° depending on the ambient temperature. Even during the recent hot spell, under load it never hit 60°. Quiet as well :cool:

luismenendez · 6 Aug 2006 at 21:12

dagwoood said:
I've got one of these Emtek cards, as per luismenendez I got it off of an auction site and wandered what the jumpers were for.

Must say I'm really impressed with how cool it runs. Idles between 40-45° depending on the ambient temperature. Even during the recent hot spell, under load it never hit 60°. Quiet as well

have you overclocked the card?

I can get 645/1500 stable but haven't tried any jumper yet

dagwoood · 7 Aug 2006 at 00:01

luismenendez said:
have you overclocked the card?

I can get 645/1500 stable but haven't tried any jumper yet

Haven't touched the memory yet, but I let ATI Tool "try" and find a safe overclock, but it crashed my system when it hit 641MHz :eek:

I don't know whether this is the limit though as I've just discovered my PSU is borked

luismenendez · 8 Aug 2006 at 20:12

dagwoood said:
Haven't touched the memory yet, but I let ATI Tool "try" and find a safe overclock, but it crashed my system when it hit 641MHz

I don't know whether this is the limit though as I've just discovered my PSU is borked

I was a bit more lucky and went to 665 and stopped there but at 660 crash 3DMark05