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In terms of sheer size, the BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC is no bigger than a reference NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT. In fact, the board layout appears to be a descendant of the 6600, sharing a number of commonalities, such as capacitor placement, RAM chip placement, and so on. The heatsink and fan design also appears to be closely related to that of the 6600 GT, which leads me to believe that the 7600 GT will also suffer from the high-speed whir that we have come to know so well from the 6600.

I'm very pleased to see that there is no need for a PCI-Express power connector, meaning that the 7600 GT, even though it is around twice as powerful as the 6600 GT (going by the specifications), still only requires PCI-Express bus power. This could very well turn out to be an excellent card to use in a low-power/low-noise (with a 3rd-party cooler) environment that still requires a performance kick.

Before I talk about anything else, I'm going to state that I've been rather spoiled by the hardware manufacturers -- especially when it comes to the high-end product entries. The thing about these high-end products is that their bundles contain everything and a bag of chips, as in the case with BFG's GeForce 7900 GTX bundle -- a t-shirt, slick mouse feet pads, cables up the wazoo, and so on. When reviewing a mid-range product such as the 7600 GT, it's hard not to find yourself expecting the same amount of accessories as you just dug out of the box of a high-end product. The reality, of course, is that the mid-range bundles are considerably more reserved.

BFG's GeForce 7600 GT bundle is complete, and as retail-feeling as you can get. You get the usual twin DVI-to-VGA adapters and the HDTV break-out cable, as well as the user's/installation guides and driver CD. The only real extra is the second CD, which contains software that can be of use to more than one of us -- FarStone's GameDrive 9.0, iolo's System Mechanic Pro 5, and Webroot's Spy Sweeper, Window Washer, and Desktop Firewall. There are no t-shirts or "Teflon Slick Pads" in this one, but don't take that as me saying that BFG is cheap.

The overall presentation of the entire product is, of course, top-notch. Everything from the box art to the paper leaflets seems thought-out, and definitely not like a last-minute throw-in. If I had purchased this, I'd probably be feeling pretty good about my purchase right now. Let's now turn the spotlight over on to what everyone came here for.