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"tq96" <tq96@tq96.tq96> wrote in message
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>> nothing was wrong wtih the leadtek but for the same price I could get
>> a bfg locally so I decided to send it back get my money and went to
>> compu usa and got the last one they had. Clocks faster alot better
>> performance. Now just need to find a long cable to hook it to my HD TV
>> lol
>
> Doesn't make sense. The only technical thing different between the
> Leadtek
> and the BFG is that the BFG is overclocked out of the box. There should
> be
> no problem getting identical performance out of the Leadtek.
>
> IMO, BFG dropped the ball here. If they truly wanted to produce faster
> AGP
> 6600GTs, the could have equipped their card with 1.6ns RAM and ran it a
> lot
> faster than refernce. (That might also have justified the $50 price
> premium the BFG AGP 6600GT cards seem to ask for.)
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_6600_gt_agp_roundup/page20.asp
They liked it alright...
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/bfg6600gtocagp/
as did they...
http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/6600gt-agp-comparo/index.x?pg=10
and them...
But, yeah- it'd be nice to have the 1.6ns memory. I picked mine up because
it was one of the few 6600GT AGP cards on the shelf in December- and I liked
what I'd read compared to some of the other brands I'd seen. The point with
the "OC" models isn't that they overclock any higher- it's that they're
still under warranty and get 24/7 tech support while they're overclocked.
I'd personally say $25 difference would be a better price than $50- but at
the time I had a few extra bucks burnin' a hole in my pocket. I paid $250 in
mid-December and that was still a fairly good deal. Yeah, you can get much
cheaper 6600GT cards now that they've been out a while... but mine has been
working just fine for over 3 months and I didn't have to wait.
!bungle
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