6600 GT vs. 6800 GT overclocked

[Tom Phoenix]

Greetings!

Since I cannot afford to buy a proper graphics card, I am currently planning on buying a "stop-gap" card. A graphics card that will fill up the void till I move out from home and buy my own PC. I have found two offers that could serve this pourpose.

On one hand, I have a offer of 6600 GT for 60 €. On the other, I have a offer for a serially overclocked 6800 GT with two ventilators for 88 €. My question is simple. Is the 6800 GT worth the additional 28 €?

Both graphic cards are AGP and I plan to use either at the 1024x768 resolution.

 

[lostandwandering]

A stock 6800GT is going to be faster than a 6600GT. An overclocked 6800GT is going to be even faster. I would say that it's worth the little extra.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=721&model2=722&chart=285

 

[M3d]

Lostandwandering is right. I have had both and the 6800GT is much better especially for the price difference.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

I got another offer for a 7600 GS. Still need to negotiate a price but the person who is related to the seller says he will probably want 60 € for it.

One question. Do you think 60 € is too much for a 6600GT or 88 € for a overclocked 6800GT?

 

[crusoe74]

6800GT is faster than a 7600GS and 88 euros is a fair price for an OC 6800GT

 

[slim142]

Avoid GS series, they really slow (except for 7900GS series)

Anything with GT is the way to go. Also avoid turbocache cards.

 

[rolli59]

7600GS = Vanilla 6800

 

[rickzor]

Avoid GS series, they really slow (except for 7900GS series)

Anything with GT is the way to go. Also avoid turbocache cards.

7800gs is a good card ;p

 

[lostandwandering]

7800gs is a good card ;p

For an AGP card it's not bad. Gets beaten by the X1950pro though.

 

[spoonboy]

Isnt there a radeon 2600 agp version? that might be a good upgrade. Drivers are an issue though I think.

 

[hixbot]

Is this 2007? Why would you pay 88 € for a 6800gt? For about the same price you could get a x1950gt or a 2600xt. (i assume you want AGP).

 

[Tom Phoenix]

Is this 2007? Why would you pay 88 € for a 6800gt? For about the same price you could get a x1950gt or a 2600xt. (i assume you want AGP).

Em...where? Retail stores have the worser 7600 GS for that amount of money and the 2600XT for about 150 €.

 

[crusoe74]

Is this 2007? Why would you pay 88 € for a 6800gt? For about the same price you could get a x1950gt or a 2600xt. (i assume you want AGP).

Wow you really know European pricing

X1950Gt & 2600XT= €150 +. Why pay double for a dying format that could only get a maximum 30% incease in frame rates?

 

[Guest]

why cant he get a x1950something they are better performance than the 6800 and im not great on the conversions but you can get a decent one for around 120... its stupid to get either 6600 or 6800.

 

[jjblanche]

My God...those prices are insane for antiquated cards. Poor, poor Europeans. All the culture and none of the technology.

(Just kidding ;-) I couldn't resist)

 

[Dahak]

Most definately sir.The 6800GT sports more pixel pipelines,(16,compared to 8 for the 6600GT).It sports 256 megs of ram with a 256 bit interface,running 2ns ddr3 memory.This is a nice card,but does get a tad warm.But to answer your question,yes,it is worth spending the extra few pounds.Goodluck.

Dahak

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[Evilonigiri]

I agree about the 6series being outdated...
I don't know how the prices on vidcards goes in Europe but can't you find an 8series or a HD2600XT? Here, it costs about the same as the 6800GT but performs much better...