Gainward's BLISS 7600GT Golden Sample ... gives you more than just performance.

Introduction

Gainward has always produced some of the most sought after graphic cards on the market. They are among a only a few manufacturers to produce the 512Mb verisons of Geforce cards in the Geforce 6 and 7 series. They are also known to select the better GPUs from Nvidia for their graphic cards, and they called these cards "Golden Sample ". Sounds very interesting, all thanks to their marketing department, but the Golden Sample proved very popular among enthusiasts.

One reason was the fact that gamers and enthusiasts specifically bought the Golden Sample cards so that they can overclock them ... with some impressive results too. This has an advantage over "already" overclocked cards from manufacturers such as XFX, BFG and Leadtek, because enthusiasts like myself would prefer to manually overclock at my own convenience. The Golden Sample cards originally come in at standard stock speeds by default ... so, it was like a secret "weapon" ... a healthy performance boost when overclocked, when you need it.

So, what is "Golden Sample" ? ... Well, here's an explanation (taken from Gainward's website). Based on the next generations of HD-graphics based GPU´s, Gainward is proud to introduce the first Golden Sample version of NVIDIAs GeForce 7600 product. Features like lifelike graphics, HD-Video and many other standard features is not enough for Gainward, we add performance Increasing the perfomance with approximately 10% from NVIDIA reference design we bet you that BLISS 7600GT Golden Sample is here to stay.   Of course it is, maybe not in the same shape as before but still with the same purpose. Golden Sample products from Gainward offer a higher clocksetting than reference-design boards. That is the heart and soul of Gainward's Golden Sample. With some products this is achieved by using higher performing components than on the reference design boards and on other products the higher performance is achieved by using software utilities. The hard job is not to offer boards with extremely high clocksettings, anybody can do that. The hard part is to find the correct clocksetting that offers a higher performing as well as a perfectly stable product. If we cross the line we might end up with a super-performing product but with very low stability. This is nothing that we want on our conscience Gainwards job is to produce higher performing and perfectly stable products, a concept that brings the highest level of satisfaction to the consumer. This is actually not a job but more a fine art which demand great skills from our engineers. Therefore we are proud to call these products Golden Sample.

In this review we take a look at Gainward's BLISS 7600GT 256Mb Golden Sample. The card features 256Mb DDR3 ram rated at 750Mhz (effective 1500Mhz) with the GPU core running at 575Mhz.

So, with such a reputation on the stakes, can Gainward give the gamers and enthusiasts what they want? As you all know by now, the enthusiast market is a tough one, with manufacturers such as XFX, BFG and Leadtek leading the way with their overclocked cards ... it will be interesting to see how Gainward will perform.

OK, we won't waste anymore time ... let's take a closer look at the Gainward BLISS 7600GT Golden Sample.