Hi.
I'm having this terrible anxiety, because I don't know which card to buy for my crappy PC (see: bottom) in order to enjoy some of today's newer game titles. The thing is that for the past three months or so I've been checking out the 6600GT against the 6800 series and so far my research has been nothing but inconclusive.
Recently I noticed that nVIDIA made a small addition to it's GeForce 6 product line (6800XT) which supposedly packs the same amount of power as the 6600GT. Now, I'm aware that the 256-bit memory bus of the 6800 series will kick the GT's ass by a mile on some aspects but with this new version they seemed to have cut down on the pipelines, hence I don't think that it's easy to tell which one is the better choice anymore.
I should remind you that we are talking about equal amounts of memory - 128MB DDR/GDDR3 (XT vs. GT) - so the real question is where do they differ performance wise? What I know about the 6800XT is that it's supposed to fill in the small gap between 6800LE and 6800. Judging by the price, it's not that far from a 6600GT. These cards cost about the same (the 6800XT cost roughly 15-20£ more than the LE version).
So I'm kinda stuck between the middle of two roads, not really getting anywhere. From what I've been able to figure out: The 6600GT clocks higher than the 6800XT (500/900Mhz vs. 325/350Mhz) but nevertheless, it only runs on a 128-bit interface! Which one should I get???
I'm so lost... really hope anyone here can give me a helping hand.
Cheers.
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CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
RAM: 512 DDR-PC2100/266
GPU: GeForce2 MX400/64MB (AGP-4X on mobo!!)
PSU: 300W or 350W (can't remember)
I'm having this terrible anxiety, because I don't know which card to buy for my crappy PC (see: bottom) in order to enjoy some of today's newer game titles. The thing is that for the past three months or so I've been checking out the 6600GT against the 6800 series and so far my research has been nothing but inconclusive.
Recently I noticed that nVIDIA made a small addition to it's GeForce 6 product line (6800XT) which supposedly packs the same amount of power as the 6600GT. Now, I'm aware that the 256-bit memory bus of the 6800 series will kick the GT's ass by a mile on some aspects but with this new version they seemed to have cut down on the pipelines, hence I don't think that it's easy to tell which one is the better choice anymore.
I should remind you that we are talking about equal amounts of memory - 128MB DDR/GDDR3 (XT vs. GT) - so the real question is where do they differ performance wise? What I know about the 6800XT is that it's supposed to fill in the small gap between 6800LE and 6800. Judging by the price, it's not that far from a 6600GT. These cards cost about the same (the 6800XT cost roughly 15-20£ more than the LE version).
So I'm kinda stuck between the middle of two roads, not really getting anywhere. From what I've been able to figure out: The 6600GT clocks higher than the 6800XT (500/900Mhz vs. 325/350Mhz) but nevertheless, it only runs on a 128-bit interface! Which one should I get???
I'm so lost... really hope anyone here can give me a helping hand.
Cheers.
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CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
RAM: 512 DDR-PC2100/266
GPU: GeForce2 MX400/64MB (AGP-4X on mobo!!)
PSU: 300W or 350W (can't remember)