I've searched for several hours and have found alot of information on both the 6800 and 6600gt cards, but I've been wondering about their performances when compared to eachother (6600s have been left out of most benchmark testing charts I've found).
I see differences like 128-bit for the 6600gt compared to 256-bit for the 6800. 500mhz core speed vs 325mhz, 128mb GDDR3 vs 128mb ddr etc. (as you probably all well know without me regurgitating specs). What do all these differences actually mean to the performance gap? I can't really afford 6800gt, money is an issue as I'm a poor slacker, so is the $60 difference ($215 retail 6600gt vs $275 refurbished 6800, both leadtek that I've read are decent) worth the performance difference? have been reading some about overclocking and unlocking pipes if that could make a difference between the cards too.
secondly, my general system specs right now are amd athlon xp 1800/1.53ghz, 768mb pc2700ram, sun cheer 300w power supply, is this even good enough to bother upgrading to either video card (from pos 7k series ati). I plan on playing World of Warcraft mostly and want to get a mid priced athlon 64 cpu/motherboard setup in 2-3 months, but can't get all upgrades at once due to said poorness. Will one of these cards work until then? any recomnedations?
Thanks for any advice/clarification. I really appreciate this site and the people willing to take the time to help noobs like me that want to learn more, and not always have to learn the hard way.
I see differences like 128-bit for the 6600gt compared to 256-bit for the 6800. 500mhz core speed vs 325mhz, 128mb GDDR3 vs 128mb ddr etc. (as you probably all well know without me regurgitating specs). What do all these differences actually mean to the performance gap? I can't really afford 6800gt, money is an issue as I'm a poor slacker, so is the $60 difference ($215 retail 6600gt vs $275 refurbished 6800, both leadtek that I've read are decent) worth the performance difference? have been reading some about overclocking and unlocking pipes if that could make a difference between the cards too.
secondly, my general system specs right now are amd athlon xp 1800/1.53ghz, 768mb pc2700ram, sun cheer 300w power supply, is this even good enough to bother upgrading to either video card (from pos 7k series ati). I plan on playing World of Warcraft mostly and want to get a mid priced athlon 64 cpu/motherboard setup in 2-3 months, but can't get all upgrades at once due to said poorness. Will one of these cards work until then? any recomnedations?
Thanks for any advice/clarification. I really appreciate this site and the people willing to take the time to help noobs like me that want to learn more, and not always have to learn the hard way.