Gilgamesh has a new graphics card: an nVidia GeForce 7600GS

For those who don't know about my obsession for calling the computers I have with the names of demigods of the most various religions and mythologies, Gilgamesh is the name that received my desktop computer ---a PentiumIV at 3GHz with 1.5GB of RAM--- a few years ago. So, if you ant to know more about the great king of sumerian mythology, Gilgamesh, just visit the wikipedia, concretely this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh.


Well, just changing the subject and aiming to the main theme of this post... I bought a new graphics card for my desktop computer!!!! Above of these lines you can see a photo of the real cover and card; quite little but with killing features, in terms of its (relative :P) low cost!!.

Because of the old age of Gilgamesh (more than 4 years, although I amplied its RAM to improve its performance), its graphics card was initially a nVidia GeForceFX 5200, very limited... after some time, my Degree Project (now morphed to Master Thesis :P) gived me a nVidia GeForce 5950 Ultra; that's the best graphics card of 5000's series, but now, coursing a Master in Graphics and Visualization, I will need more potence.

Nowadays, the AGP port has been diceased by the PCI-Express supremacy. However, the huge graphics accelerator cards vendors, ATI and nVidia have recently bet on the retired AGP port and and have released some good cards.

I must admit I don't know much about ATI cards, so I have gathered my energies and neurons for try the best card for me: I don't play any kind of videogame!! But I will work with computer graphics, and I need huge characteristics; that means, I don't want a monster card, but a little monster one XD In the follwing table you can see the specifications for my new GeForce 7600GS and other similar cards (also from nVidia, and both all working in AGP):

GPU	7300GS	7300GT	7600GS	7600GT
Core clock (MHz)	550	350	400	560
Memory clock (MHz)	533	667	800	1400
Memory interface (bit)	64	128	128	128
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2	DDR2	GDDR3
Pixels per clock	4	8	12	12
Vertex shaders	3	4	5	5

source: NGOHG (http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=articles&go=page2&arc_id=116)

If you are experimented in this terms of technology, you will see that it's not a bad target :P Yes, there are better cards (the 7600GT model, or even the 8600GT, but the last one is too much expensive and it's not worthy for me...), but I only wanted a good graphics card supporing Shader Model 3.0 (because the old GeForce 5950 Ultra only supported until Shader Model 2.0). And now, I have it!! :) Even with the same RAM memory (256MB, engineered with faster technology: DDR2 instead of SDRAM :P).

I don't think there will be mounts of people commenting this post because of the strange theme... but I know there will be a little bit of visitors that, at least, can understand some lines of that :P And what the hell? I simply wanted to tell you this new :)