Unless you are planning on turning your old system over to someone else,
your plans don't make a whole lot of sense. The 6600GT is not much better
than a 9800 Pro. Why get a 754 pin A64? If you can wait a little, you
should get a Nforce4 and make the jump to PCI-E. If you can't wait, There
are many Nforce3 boards that support socket 939. Either way, if you stay
with AGP you might as well just use the 9800 Pro and save $200.

DaveL


"Don Burnette" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have been away from Nvidia since moving to ATI with the 9700 Pro.
Currently, I have a 9800 Pro 128 mb card.

I am about to order the parts to udgrade to an Athlon 64 bit socket 754
system.

I will be going with the 3400 Newcastle core, and an Asus Nforce3 socket
754 mb. I will wait on the 939/pci express until the dust settles in a
year or so.

I am thinking the 9800 Pro will become a bottleneck in the above system. I
figure since I will be starting with a new XP Pro install, would be a good
time for a diff vid card as well.

To help keep cost down, I am looking at the XFX 6600 GT 256 mb agp card,
Newegg currently has for 225 bucks.
Am I correct in thinking I will see a significant performance gain? I
mainly due flight simming for gaming.

Would appreciate any feedback, especially from those coming from ATI to
Nvidia now.


Thanks,

--
Don Burnette

"When you decide something is impossible to do, try to stay out of the way
of the man that's doing it."