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Need advice: Considering returning to Nvidia with the 6600GT
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." |
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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 ... 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." |
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:39:27 -0600, "Don Burnette"
wrote: [snip...snip...] 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. My advice is not NOT N O T to move to a 6600GT AGP unless nVidia fixes their driver problems. When it works, it's great. When it doesn't, welcome to system lockup and a cold boot to recover. See several threads about this, above. Lots of the gaming forums have posts about the issues, as well. -- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA |
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I suggest reading a lot of recent posts on the subject of 6600GT before
making any decisions. -- Regards Spencer "Don Burnette" wrote in message ... 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." |
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Don, get a plain 6800. Odds are quite high you can then enable the extra
pipelines using Rivatuner (no modification needed) and get a free upgrade to a 6800GT. This card is around $300 I think. rms |
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Consider a regular GeForce 6800, 128MB of memory. The extra 128MB of RAM
will not increase performance much, but it will increase the price alot. I have 128MB of memory and it runs games just fine, even with antialiasing. |
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