I have a crossfire compatible motherboard, and have been told that the 9600GT will beat 2 HD 2600XTs in crossfire (i can get either of these for the same price)
which of these should i get?
or is there an entirely different card i should be looking at (my price range is 120-150$)
(if this is helpful)I want to play Bioshock, Age of Empires III and a little bit of COD4
Oh yea, that 9600GT will definately beat those two paththic cards. It is a very good buy, and when overclocked, arguably is the proce/performance champion. It will perform more than adequately in those games listed.
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Exile- Kreia what are you Jedi or Sith?
Kreia- Does it matter? Of course it does; such titles allow us to rip the galaxy into two halves: light and dark, good and bad. Perhaps I am neither, and I hold both as what they really are: pieces to a puzzle.
I have a crossfire compatible motherboard, and have been told that the 9600GT will beat 2 HD 2600XTs in crossfire (i can get either of these for the same price)
which of these should i get? or is there an entirely different card i should be looking at (my price range is 120-150$)
(if this is helpful)I want to play Bioshock, Age of Empires III and a little bit of COD4
Thanks
Get the 9600GT or an 8800GT if you find a good deal. I don't play the first two games, but COD4 runs fine on my 9600GT on max at 1680x1050 without Vsync or AA. It should be able to run AA as well, but not Vsync, as that causes slowdowns at random times, although triple buffering might stop that, I haven't tried. All I know is COD4 in multiplayer and vsync (without triple buffering) = 1:4 for your kill : death ratio.
Message edited by randomizer on 05-10-2008 at 08:32:10 AM
Between the 9600GT and the 8800GT it's a toss-up - they are very similar price/performance.
I recommend getting a dual slot 9600GT (like almost any of the overclocked models) and overclocking it even more. It will perform almost as well as an 8800 and be MUCH quieter
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9600gt use g94 core, which is basically half a 8800gts g92 core overclocked. 64 stream processors compared to 128 stream processors. It's amazing that 9600 performed so well despite using essencially half the hardware.
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Exile- Kreia what are you Jedi or Sith?
Kreia- Does it matter? Of course it does; such titles allow us to rip the galaxy into two halves: light and dark, good and bad. Perhaps I am neither, and I hold both as what they really are: pieces to a puzzle.
very interesting, so Nvidia purposefully withheld drivers for the GeF 8s to make the 9s look better, not surprised.
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Exile- Kreia what are you Jedi or Sith?
Kreia- Does it matter? Of course it does; such titles allow us to rip the galaxy into two halves: light and dark, good and bad. Perhaps I am neither, and I hold both as what they really are: pieces to a puzzle.
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Exile- Kreia what are you Jedi or Sith?
Kreia- Does it matter? Of course it does; such titles allow us to rip the galaxy into two halves: light and dark, good and bad. Perhaps I am neither, and I hold both as what they really are: pieces to a puzzle.
indeed, AMD is such a wack acronym, i know, i cant believe I actually didnt say ATI, weird, its not like we were married to it anyway.
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Exile- Kreia what are you Jedi or Sith?
Kreia- Does it matter? Of course it does; such titles allow us to rip the galaxy into two halves: light and dark, good and bad. Perhaps I am neither, and I hold both as what they really are: pieces to a puzzle.
The only passive 9600GTs have massive dual slot heat pipes.... Its an ugly sight... MASSIVE!!
why do you want passive cooled ones anyway? a small fan can make a huge difference http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id- [...] rsion.html