6600gt or 6800

[mtrx]

Wath to buy an asus 6600 128 mb 128 bit gt with 1.6 ns ddr3 mem clock 900 or a 6800 with ddr 128 mb 256 bit .
??????

 

[Primitivus]

6800

 

[mtrx]

why 6800 ??? no ddr smaller clocks only the chipset is 6800 ...

 

[cleeve]

The 6800. (not a 6800XT though)

6800 has 12 pipelines, the 6600GT has 8. More pipelines means more shader power.

If it's AGP, there's a good chance you could unlock pipelines to a full 6800 GT, and even overclock it to 6800 Ultra speeds...

 

[angry_ducky]

THIS

 

[cleeve]

If we're talkgin PCI-express, this would kick a dual-6600GT's ass:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102688

And for $130 after rebate.

But is this fellow's system PCIe or AGP?...

 

[angry_ducky]

If we're talkgin PCI-express, this would kick a dual-6600GT's ass:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102688

And for $130 after rebate.

But is this fellow's system PCIe or AGP?...

I forgot about the X850XT. I was really surprised to find that dual 6600GT, though. I didn't even know that such card existed. It is a good alternative to two 6600GT cards because it's like half the price. I wonder if you can do Quad-SLI with these?

 

[cleeve]

Good question... hard to say.

I wonder if you need an SLI mobo to get it to work at all?
hmmm...

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

I forgot about the X850XT. I was really surprised to find that dual 6600GT, though. I didn't even know that such card existed. It is a good alternative to two 6600GT cards because it's like half the price. I wonder if you can do Quad-SLI with these?

You can't 'Quad' them because no external SLi bridge, so even SLi+SLi (true Quad SLi doesn't exist yet) would be lane restricted on all cards. Compare the 3D1 layout to the GX2s and then think about how SLi works to see the reason for a major impedement. Also the areas in which such core power would be handy would be severely restricted by the shared 128MB. Far better to SLi 2 GF6800 with 256MB IMO, although in his case he's pointing to a 128MB GF6800.

Anywhoo, it would be slow-quad if at all possible, and currently would likely take an extra hack of the drivers to even enable it.

As a single card, neat (especially for testing), but not practical or even economical compared to alot of the current solutions out there (GF7600GT is bound to beat it in most if not all situations).

 

[Heyyou27]

If it's AGP, there's a good chance you could unlock pipelines to a full 6800 GT, and even overclock it to 6800 Ultra speeds...

A 6800GT with 128MB of DDR RAM. (No DDR3) I have an AGP 6800GT in my second box clocked at 402MHz core 1.08GHz memory and it still has a hard time with most games.

 

[angry_ducky]

If it's AGP, there's a good chance you could unlock pipelines to a full 6800 GT, and even overclock it to 6800 Ultra speeds...

A 6800GT with 128MB of DDR RAM. (No DDR3) I have an AGP 6800GT in my second box clocked at 402MHz core 1.08GHz memory and it still has a hard time with most games.What are the rest of the machine's specs? A 6800GT is still a pretty decent card.