GeForce 6600 or ATI X700?

phillyp1982

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I'm on a budget, need a cheap vid card upgrade. Which one would be a better buy? is a 6600 SLI worth it? I play mostly FPS. I'm sick of running my games on low settings and low res, but I don't have much money to spend either. Just need a decent quality smooth graphics performing card for the time being. This 9250 PCI isn't cutting it anymore. I took it from work as a temp vid card for display.

I kinda wanna experiment with SLI and I can get both cards for a lil bit above $100 Newegg for the 6600 and Circuit City Accomodation from ATI for the x700 for about $110.

Intel Pentium D 820
Intel 945PSN Mobo
1GB OCZ DDR2 RAM
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
ATI Radeon 9250 128MB PCI
Zalman 7700 ALCU
Seagate 250GB SATA150
Antec 550W True Power 2.0
 

dhlucke

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For a low end card SLI is not worth it. You are better off spending more money on one good card.

SLI is good for people who are putting high end cards in there and want to get better performance than they could with any single card. That's my opinion at least.
 

I-LOVE-AMD

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Go fro the X700 it Beter in a WAY i think Well i m acturly not sure i just no the PRo ver is Certainly a Beter card...
WEll but my sugestion is if u can go higher budget.. GO 4 the 6600GT caus it run gdd3 there 4 u can run most game on High res With othe lag.. It a Real Good crad 2 buy.. :)
 

RX8

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get the 6600gt or a X800GTO 1 or version 2.

The x700 standard is pants but the pro is good if you can get one, and the plain 6600 is ok but noway as close to the 6600gt performance.