6600GT OC?

[krogoth1989]

To make this short, I am getting a PCI-E rig in about 3 months, and I want to play battlefield 2 at the most performance I can squeeze out of my system. Since I was going to get BF2 from probably newegg, I thought of whether I should buy a GPU cooler and OC my 6600gt.

We all know every card is different, but in everyones opinion here, or from experience, how much you think the performance upgrade will be for this card if OCed to the maximum potential.

my pc is:
P4 2.8 ghz
1 gig ddr (512 3200 and 512 2700)
400 Watt ps
eVGA 6600gt agp

just want to know your thoughts on this

 

[Ian]

Minimal, due to its 128 bit memory interface, and the fact that its core and memory speeds are already pushed very high, I doubt you will get much out of it, and investing $30? or whatever, in a aftermarket cooling system is a waste of money in my opinion.

Allthough someone with an AGP 6600 GT may come along and tell me im wrong.

 

[PX7800GT]

I Don`t Recommand OC`ing Your Graphic Card Because 6600GT Has A Good Clocks By Default , Pushing It More & You May Blow It ... You Dont Like It Do You ?? & Another Thing Is OC`ing Your Graphic Card Only Gives You 2 Or Max 5 More Frame Rate In BattleField 2 ... I Don`t Know Man ... It`s Your Choice ...

 

[maxxum]

OK Ian, your wrong jk

Anyway, I have one and if I remember correctly its OC to 500/1050. It does only have a 128 mem interface but is still zippy. It runs pretty hot but its fanless so you might be able to squeeze a little more out of it with cooling. The 7600 is around 200 and IMO is the minimum upgrade I would do at the moment. Personally, if you could stand current games at mid levels until next November I would wait for the new line from ATI and nVidia to arrive.

 

[falsterbo]

To make this short, I am getting a PCI-E rig in about 3 months, and I want to play battlefield 2 at the most performance I can squeeze out of my system. Since I was going to get BF2 from probably newegg, I thought of whether I should buy a GPU cooler and OC my 6600gt.

We all know every card is different, but in everyones opinion here, or from experience, how much you think the performance upgrade will be for this card if OCed to the maximum potential.

my pc is:
P4 2.8 ghz
1 gig ddr (512 3200 and 512 2700)
400 Watt ps
eVGA 6600gt agp

just want to know your thoughts on this

If you want BF2 running better, then you would have to buy a new CPU, more ram and a better graphicscard...

Minimum for max settings are about this:
P4 with HT 3,2-3,4 / AMD64 3200+ - 3500+
2048Mb ram or more
GeForce 6800 Ultra / ATi 850XT (I think?)

The 6600GT won´t be good enough even if you push out more Hz...

 

[cleeve]

If you're getting a PCIe ring in 3 months, just overclock the ah heck as far as it'll go with stock cooling. Invest some cheap Arctic Silver, crank up the fan to 100%, and go to town.

 

[chief5286]

I'm with cleeve here. Crank it up.

I don't know about the agp version, by my 6600gt pci-e overclocked very well. I went from 500/1000 to 581/1130 (the recomended OC was higher than this at 590/1170) with stock cooling. The card runs perfectly and the temps under load are around 68c in CS:S and around 74c in Oblivion. This is about the same as I've seen from other sources. The OC gave me a 15% improvement in 3dmark05 (to over 4000) and BF2 plays smothly at 12x9 mostly high with 2AA.

Whether a new cooler would give you better results than stock, I have no idea. I'd say to see how far you can push it at stock first.

 

[krogoth1989]

yea the pci-e rig is a whole new processor, most likely a 3800 venice, and a 1900xt,

also id like to add that it runs 74 playing BF2 for 20 minutes under load, and idles at 64

 

[HYST3R]

I Don`t Recommand OC`ing Your Graphic Card Because 6600GT Has A Good Clocks By Default , Pushing It More & You May Blow It ... You Dont Like It Do You ?? & Another Thing Is OC`ing Your Graphic Card Only Gives You 2 Or Max 5 More Frame Rate In BattleField 2 ... I Don`t Know Man ... It`s Your Choice ...

WOW. OK.

being that the 6600GT's are known for theyre OC potential how can you even say that?

anyways a 6600GT is probably to weak to handle BF2 at a decent rate anyways, but since i have one ill tell you that you can really crank up the core speed!

but remember its still weak for bf2, plus you only have 1 gb of ram so dont expect much when playing it. with an aftermarket cooler you your core speed should be around 575 maybe 600 if your lucky, and your ram will prob be like 1050 or so. but if your looking for more performance id say invest in another GB of ram!

 

[krogoth1989]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/13/how_much_ram_do_you_really_need/

 

[falsterbo]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/13/how_much_ram_do_you_really_need/

Don´t look at this link!!! It is wrong!

Battlefield 2 needs minimum of 2048Mb ram if you want to play with all settings on/full. It takes about 1,2-1,6Gb...

 

[sleepdeprived82]

Im going to petition toms to take that article off, im fed up of people quoting a flawed test for BF2.

 

[Tyrvidar]

I have a BFG 6600gt agp. I have gotten the O/C up towards the 600mhz range with a a/m heatsink and about 1.16 on the memory. The highest 3d05 I got with it was right over 4k.

As far as Bf2, it really does test the card. 1280x1024 or what ever I have to cut off most of the eye candy, and set things down to medium.