ZOGIS ZO86GT-E GeForce 8600 GT 512MB a decent card?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814136019

that is the link to it. i currently am on a AMD/ATI setup. athlon 64 3200 with an ATI AGPx1600xt (oced even further than stock to GPU clock: 634.50 MEMclock : 679.50

i am being given this combo.
pentium d 920
p4m890t-m2 motherboard from ECS
Nvidia 7600 gs PCIe


so im looking for a good decent card to replace that 7600gs

im already buying a cooler master rc-690 case and a new PSU to go with it.

so my funds for the GPU isnt great.

I dont plan on playing Crysis. so i dont need some uber Radical setup.

I do plan to play Diablo 3 when it comes out. so i would want to play it in max detail.

and the price for that 8600GT seems really low. i figure i can OC it some also if needed.

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ah k. well with my current setup on 3dmark06

1024/768
AA x6
Texture filtering Optimal

overall score of 2238
sm2.0 913
HDR/SM3.0 934
CPU 762


so im hoping to jump up from that a good bit with the new setup.

I would not recommend buying an 8600GT... just about any other new card will suit your needs better. The 512MB on the 8600GT is useless since the card is really too slow to leverage that much memory well so don't think that you need to have a 512MB card just to get better performance than that 8600GT you found.

-mcg

ah k. well im pretty sure the MB im getting only has 1 PCIe x16 slot. and to run SLI or CF you need 2 PCIe x16 slots right?

if so. i dont want to kick myself in the balls now. ill play D3. but i mean ill play FC2 when it comes out the new wow exp when it comes out which its supposed to get a huge Graphics update aswell. so i now i gotta choose wisely on a card that by itself you know will run decent.

what about the ati HD3850? its cheaper than the 8800gs and seems to run better. but i dont see many people talking about the 3000 series cards from ATI.

also im not afraid to OC a card to squeeze out alittle more performance.

if someone know of a card that in this range of 120ish dollars and below that mabe Overclocks really well?

yea i see what you mean. question on that particliar 8600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121223
600mhz core and 2016mhz memory clock?



is the stock core 540 and memory clock 1400
Like the card below?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130085

If so is it safe to say i could take a 512mb version and OC that to the 600/2016 specs?


i also see what you mean jit about the 3000 series. it was beating most of the 8800's even Oced in the SM scores but in the actual Game FPS the 3850 drops to the bottom vs the GTX,GTS and the GTS oc

The newest Toms graphic card hierarchy chart.
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 965-6.html

You'll see that the 8600GT is 3 tiers above the 7600GS while the 8800GS is 9 tiers above it.
I'm not a fan of this 8800GT 256 card, but at $69.99 after rebate it's a much better choice then the 8600GT 256
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814125089

yea i have ruled out the 8600. ive probly spent 5-6 hours today trying to figure out what i want lol

nvidiot fanboys - misery loves company - why drag this guy down with you - take a lesson from clint eastwood - guess what you can get in on "for a few dollars more".

The oclox reports are just beginning - you really should have known - and yes you can take an ati 4850 into your next build.

AND there's a lot of fanboys that will buy up any nvidiot dinosaur parts you are stuck with - 128bit o.m.g.

Price too high? = wait a month.

just realized i cant verify if the ECS p4m890t-m2 supports PCIe 2.0 anyone know? went to the ECS website and it only shows it having PCIexpress x16
but i dont see 2.0

so this looks like my options now nvidia wise which the GS is 2.0 and the 3850 form ati is a 2.0 card aswell

8800GTX,
8800GTS 640MB, 512mb ,320mb

ok cool im glad heh

and Zooty please just stay out of my topic. k.. thanks

yea im not going with an 8600. the 3850 and the 8800 basically have double the performance. the 9600 series looks good also i think it will be between them

668 core and 1650 memory is stock speeds I believe.

Key words to keep in mind when dealing with overclocking: Your mileage may vary. Be ESPECIALLY wary in concerns with the video RAM speed. In most cases, if you push it more than just a little, you'll start getting image artifacts.

While I could perhaps awknowledge the possibility of a 21.3% increase in core speed, Managing roughly the same increase out of the video memory is something I'd remain HIGHLY skeptical over.

I would advise strongly against buying a card based upon your hopes of OC'ing it by a rather large margin.

You mean the amperage on the +12v rail? I'd recommend going ahead and checking it. You can do this by opening up your case, and looking at each side of your power supply; one of those sides should have a label on it that has a chart, detailing the power layout.

Then that's almost certainly not enough; that's 180 watts of power for your CPU and video card combined. That's not enough for pretty much any video card that has an add-on PCI-express power plug, because that means they need more than 75 watts for themselves.

my system is iball cabinet with 400w psu, asus msn mx se, amd 6000+, 3 gb ddr2 ram, 22inch lcd, 320 hdd, pls suggest me a graphic card i am intersted in 8600 pls let me kn0wshould i go for ddr2 or ddr3, i am confused should i go for nvidia and amd, as far as my budget goes i can get a 8600 512mb, pls reply soon, i am not able to create a new thread, whether my psu will support a 8600 card, i am interested in playing crysis in a high resolution

Man this guy is funny!!! lol

First off, Crysis in high-resolution with a weaker card? Not gonna happen. Simply... No. Medium-high is possible to be smoothly playable with a higher-end card, like a 9800GTX. With a card like that, I'd shoot for a lower resolution (no more than 1024x768, likely 800x600) and perhaps medium settings.

As for the 8600GT, take the GDDR3 version, hands-down. It's a good deal more powerful. And yes, that does mean, IIRC, having only 256MB of video RAM. But the DDR2 is too slow to be useful, so in other words the extra memory winds up wasted.

Dont know where you get you info but FSX is one of the largest most labor intensive graphic bound Games out there. Maybe you ought to take another look. Far Cry, Crisis and the others have never been a proublem for my builds. I eat them for breakfast. FSX has been the only game out there that I have had to make altercations. Im speaking from Experence and personal bench marks. Not from what some one else has posted and then read.