Nvidia 6600 GT?

[davemar14]

I am looking at buying an Nvidia 6600 GT. I currently have a GeForce4 Ti 4200, which plays all of today's games, but the frame rates are lower than I like. I am wondering if my CPU would be a big bottleneck on the video card? Here is my system:

Athlon XP 2400+
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Corsair 512 MB DDR400
GeForce4 Ti 4200
Western Digital 2x74 GB Raptors in RAID 0
Western Digital 80 GB

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Not much. With GeForce 6600GT you should be able to play all current games at 1600 x 1200 and use max. Anti-Aliasing in lower resolutions.

And since you have nForce2 mobo with DDR400, you can easily overclock it 9-10% without any problem (even if your CPU multiplier is locked)

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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Well, this may help davemar a bit;

<A HREF="http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/half_life_2_cpu_shootout/" target="_new">http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/half_life_2_cpu_shootout/</A>

I'm not sure about 16x12 in D3/HL2 though, I think it'll still chug a bit.

Look at it in HL2 at Xbit;

<A HREF="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/half-life_6.html" target="_new">http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/half-life_6.html</A>

and D3 will be worse.

But it should be a nice upgrade, occasionally better than the more expensive GF6800vanilla as you can see in those benchies.


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[pauldh]

I'd have to agree. The 6600GT is not a 1600x1200 card for new games even paired with a FX-53 like in <A HREF="http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njg5LDE=" target="_new">this review</A>. D3, HL2, Farcry, NFSU2, MOHPA, TRAOD... this card is going to max out at 1280x1024 and sometimes lower. Paired with a slower cpu, I'd think 1024 will be max in many/maybe most cases. Still a nice card when it is finally available for at or under retail price.

ABIT IS7, P4 2.6C, 1GB Corsair XMS 4000 Pro Series, Radeon 9800 Pro, Santa Cruz, TruePower 430watt<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Pauldh on 11/20/04 07:15 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[rx7000]

Even if the GT 6600 bottlenecked on your computer, I dont think it would be bottlenecking enough of the power to make it not worth buying. Youd probably enter a new age of unprecidented frame rates, buy it

After going from a mx440 pci to a GT time stopped and heavnly light shone upon me when I started up some games. Upgrading that huge is very gratifying and you see where your money went instantly.

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