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The Card
Unlike its big, BIG brother, the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT takes up only one slot, thanks to its slim copper cooler. Following the tradition of previous mid-range cards, the cooler is a compact affair. It covers less than half the surface area of the card. In fact, it doesn't even cool the memory chips.
The back is totally clear of significant components. But you can see the four screws used to hold the cooler in place.
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Back of the card |
Like all single-slot coolers, this one is not designed to vent hot air out the back plate. Instead, it circulates the hot air within the case. On the back plate, the card comes with a TV-out and two DVI-out ports.
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View from the other end |
In the top view, you can see that the copper fins in this cooler are actually a single thin piece of copper folded to form fins. In the bottom view, you can see that the cooler is mounted on top of several copper spacers.
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Bottom view |
Incidentally, this is the same cooler that NVIDIA uses for the more expensive GeForce 7900 GT.
Size Comparison
To give you a better idea of how big the card is, we compared the GeForce 7600 GT with its bigger brother, the GeForce 7900 GT as well as the GeForce 7900 GTX.
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The GeForce 7600 GT looks identical to, albeit shorter than, the GeForce 7900 GT. Both cards use the same single-slot copper cooler. Therefore, they are both much shorter and thinner than the GeForce 7900 GTX which uses a really bulky aluminium cooler.
Now, let's go take a look under the cooler! 
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