Video Card Question

[Vandiyan]

Would I be better off getting an NVIDIA 6600 with 256 MB of RAM or going with an NVIDIA 6800 with 125 MB of RAM? Seems like the 6600 with 256 would still run the new games that have recently come out like Doom 3 and Half-Life 2. I guess what I am getting at is which one would run the games at higher settings?

 

[jac006]

how much do you have to spend? here...
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-145-083&depa=1
i think thats pretty good. the more memory the better performance i guess.

 

[ardy891]

the 6800 wil probably perform better than a 6600, the 600gt is still not quite as good as a 6800 but its almost there! You see the 6800 has 12 pixel pipelines and the 6600/gt only have 8! also the 6800 has a much bigger memory bandwidth!!

 

[ardy891]

btw jac that card is awful probably wont get 1 fps in doom3!!

 

[The_Necromancer1]

lol, that card stinks, WOW, No, GEt a 6600GT read this
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2196&p=5

 

[DarkBlade1]

Well, I would say go with the 6800 if you are not doing SLi. If you are doing PCie SLi setup, use dual 6600GTs. there faster clock rates aid there.

 

[jac006]

just a suggesetion dude. i dont kno what he wants. of course 6800. of course! but as i dsaid... i had no idea what his intentions are.... excuse me! lol...

 

[trance565]

he stated, new games like hl2 and doom3...

 

[trance565]

lol, that card stinks, WOW, No, GEt a 6600GT read this
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2196&p=5

dude, that place is totaly biased against ati, they didnt even showthe 850 XT PE and then they only showed the x800 XT once, and the rest the time tehy showed x600 WTF IS UP WITH THAT?!?!?!?

 

[Charchris]

Try the X850XT If you can get it! i thnk it would be a good card to use