I was just going to buy a 6600GT for around £150 (including delivery) - however, on LOW, the plain 6800 is only £170, with free delivery. So, is it worth spending the extra money on a 6800, or can any of you find a cheaper 6600GT?
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I was just going to buy a 6600GT for around £150 (including delivery) - however, on LOW, the plain 6800 is only £170, with free delivery. So, is it worth spending the extra money on a 6800, or can any of you find a cheaper 6600GT?
personally i would go for the 6800 vanilla from low, damn cheap good chances of unlocking and it is a leadtek card! go for it!
the 6800 vanilla kicks the 6600gts ass!
I was in the same situation a couple months ago, and in the end I went for the 6800 vanilla from LOW. It is indeed a Leadtek card, which seems to get good reviews! I haven't had much luck unlocking the extra pipes yet, tho tbh I haven't really looked into it enough to say for definate mine won't unlock.
I think for such a small difference in price, go for the 6800!
Ant
definately get the 6800.
I wrote a large sticky on OcUK (now banned though) about graphics cards and the choices at each price band, and i put the 6800 as the winner in a price band above the 6600GT.
the 6800 vanilla (the leadtek one) from LOW is only £170 atm inc delivery > BARGAIN
Why banned?Quote:
Originally Posted by [DW]Cougho
i gave spie the rolleyesQuote:
Originally Posted by Rcb
GOD FORBID!
me = banned for that, oh well, as im sure derthballs will tell you it wasnt a very nice place in the end.Quote:
Nice to see you taking this healthy criticism to heart spie. :rolleyes:
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sorry, last thing i want is to be banned off 2 forums in 2 days :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Zak33
Deffo the 6800, more pipes and higher clocks. More overclocking potential. Also 256bit memory interface instead of 128bit.
Hi btw Cougho ;)
The 6800 slightly faster and definitely has more potential. My Gigabyte 6800 goes up 400mhz/875mhz from a stock speed of 325mhz/700mhz. Can't enable the extra quad pipe and vertex shader without serious artefacting though.
But the deciding issue is the rest of your PC specs. No point in having a fast graphics card if the rest of PC isn't up to scratch or you're running at lowish graphical settings.
BTW, both cards start dying at 1280x1024 @ 4AA, though the 6600GT kicks the bucket first.
Specs? Here ya go:
Mobile Barton 2400+ (overclocked to 200x11 right now, going to push it further)
2x512 PC3200 2.5-3-3-8
Abit NF7-S
Eh? My 6600gt is perfect at 1280 X 1024 with everything else on max on HL2 (aa, af, vertical sync etc) with 45-60 FPS average, never goes below 35fpsQuote:
Originally Posted by davidstone28