hi bro, I 'll buy vid card so i need your advices!

[concunam2005]

hi,
i'm thinking about 3 cards below:
asus GF 6600GT 128 (EN6600GT/TD/128)
asus GF 6600 256 (EN6600/TD/256)
ASUS AT X1300P 256 (EAX1300P/TD/256)
What is the best choice?...plz help me, i'm very confused now. I 've read a lot of references, but each reference gives contrast advices to each others....so very confused now!!! :roll:
thnks

 

[Dybowski]

tell me youre price range, and i would suggest scrounging 200$ on a 6800gs.

 

[Nytro]

VGA POINT OF VIEW 6600GT GPU NVIDIA 6600GT, 256MB DDR III MEMORY, BUS PCI-EXPRESS 16X, DVI, TV/OUT, RETAIL. 149 €

VGA XMDIA GF6800 GS GPU NVIDIA 6800 GS, 256MB GDDR3, BUS PCI-EXPRESS 16X 219 €

x1300 doesn't worth

 

[MTLink]

The 6600GT would be best. However, if you spend a bit more money, you can get a 6800GS, which would be alot better.

 

[Vile]

Please, post what your main PC uses are when making threads like this. It helps people give advices. If you're planning on gaming, go for the 6600GT or if you can the X1600. Both are decent mid range video cards nowdays.

 

[cleeve]

Out of that list, the 6600 GT is best.

However, in the $140 price range the 6600GT is slaughtered by the 128mb X800 GTO, which has 12 pipelines vs the 6600 GT's 8 pipelines.

Look for it on newegg. The X800 GTO 128mb is by far the dominating card in the sub $150 PCI-express range...

 

[Nytro]

yes, x800 GTO is better, but without SM 3.0, and if iw as in his place, i'd chose 6600 GT, because has a better quality at a few frames behind(u can't see the difference, it's too small)....

 

[pcrig]

Please, post what your main PC uses are when making threads like this. It helps people give advices. If you're planning on gaming, go for the 6600GT or if you can the X1600. Both are decent mid range video cards nowdays.

I use my PC to make FREEDOM FRIES ! (Previously FRENCH FRIES), but have enough of stupid frog eaters so negative, who all the time hate americans (and our beloved George Bush, like FREEDOM FRIES better) .. and Boom Boom in terrorist nests!

We need our PCs to NUKE all the terrorists.
Nothing taste better than fried Aziz!

In the head I do have a portrait of Chirac, and wipe my rear with roll of So DaM Assan!

NO VIDEO Card is worth more than U$ 100.00 .. that is an absolute limit!
Same as there is no INTEL processor worth my power supply!

AMD Athlon64 X2 always rulez! (Not FX!)

 

[Vile]

lol

 

[gaot]

6600gt is better, or you can also take 6800XT GDDR3 into consideration. but i suggest you buy XFX. Asus is not good at graphics cards

 

[raven_87]

I once owned an Asus 9800XT. It was a great card, so I would reconsider your statement.

As for your options. Out of the list provided, obviously the 6600GT is card of choice. I agree with some of the opinion's here, the 6800GS can be had at just a little bit more.

Then again X800GTO>6600GT. No game exclusively uses SM3.0.
Considering the frame rate loss on AOE3, and the simple fact I saw no
preformance, texture, lighting increases, I wouldnt base my purchase on that alone. Not to mention, with this talk of SM4.0 being implemented by the realese of the G80, R6xx and Vista, I think you should opt for the card that produces higher frame rate, then jump on something down the road.

BTW, this is one of the ONLY times I'll recommend a card of preformance over quality. The 66xx line architecture does possess a few more features than the X8xx line, however none (for example SM 3.0) are practical with midranged cards without extracting unplayable preformance hits.

I even feel the pinch on AOE3 with my 7800GT.

 

[cleeve]

The 6600 GT isn't fast enought to run heavy SM 3.0 features so the advantage doesn't exist.

The X800 GTO 128mb is the clear choice. It soundly beats the 6600 GT, not by a couple frames but by sizable percentages. With 4xAA it slaughters the 6600 GT in many cases, we're talking 20 fps or even more.

The X800 GTO's extra 4 pielines and 256-bit memory bus beats the 6600's theoretical shader model advantage any day of the week...