6600GT AGP8x or X800GTO whis is best?

can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Which is faster/better? Or is there another gfx card that I should consider at about the same price of £100 ish.

Tough choice!

Both great cards. I'd probably argue slightly in favour of the X800GTO - while it's lacking in PS3.0 functions it's faster for PS2.0, and I don't think the 6600gt is really fast enough to take advantage of PS3.0. It would if designers used it exclusively, but they tend to design ps3.0 pathways for high end cards, and streamline ps2.0 for lower end ones, so you'd probably have to go the ps2.0 route with the 6600gt anyway, which if you're going to do you might as well go for the faster x800gto :p

Many thanks kalniel.
It has to be AGP btw and I want to be able to output to a plasma screen does that make any difference?

I would lean towards the nVidia card for AGP (personal preference due to the overclocking I have seen).

If it was PCI-E I would probably have leant the other way (GTO²) for its unlock/overclock potential.

As for plama output, I think almost every card on the market has 2 outputs now.

6800gt

6600GT is not as fast the X800GT, never mind the X800GTO

X800GTO by a mile. the 6600gt may have sm3 effects but doesnt have the grunt to use them

How about a 6800GT(hard to find on AGP) or the new 7800GS(just been released on AGP) but it depends on your price range.

thanks guys. Found this comparison chart which may interest you:

http://www.reportlabs.com/testbed/ve...v1/grtop50.php

and then there is this.........

""ASUS aren't going to do the 6800GS AGP, instead they've decided to use up their old NV40 chips in a hybrid card called the Asus V9999/TD/128.
It is a 12 pipeline 6800 with 325Mhz core and 700Mhz memory (rated at 2.8ns so presumably DDR1).

Here's a link to the original article
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28528

Thing is that this card can be unlocked to 16 pipes and 6 shaders and can be oc'd to 350/800 according to the comments here:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...vd19wcm9kdWN0X 3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=98265
and it's £50 cheaper than the 6800GS AGP cards available at the moment.

What do you guys think? Sounds like a bargain at £100 but I can't help feeling there must be a catch somewhere""

from guru3d btw

Well, can't see where the catch'd be; £100 at the mo is about 6600GT money. The card you point to should be significantly better than that just at stock speeds, even if it doesn't unlock, so it'd still be a bargain. If it does, then it'll be an INCREDIBLE bargain.

Well i'm currently running a 6600GT as a bridge card before I get a newer one. Despite what a lot of places say it definately has the grunt to use Sm3.0. I can run BF2 at 1280x1024 with all the settings and medium and high and still pull about 50-60FPS. I can play any game out at the moment and have decent settings and still get great frame rates.

""Having tested one version of the RADEON X800 GTO, we can claim that it is as dangerous a rival to the GeForce 6800 as the RADEON X800 GT is to the GeForce 6600 GT.

The ATI RADEON X800 GTO is generally faster – and much faster at times – than the NVIDIA GeForce 6800. Not a big surprise, actually, considering its higher clock rates and bigger amount of graphics memory. The exceptions are few: the shooters Doom 3 and The Chronicles of Riddick and flight sims from Maddox Games. These are all OpenGL applications, and ATI Technologies doesn’t seem to have a really efficient OpenGL driver as yet. This is not a very big problem, however, because there are very few OpenGL games around and some of them can work with Direct3D, too.

So, the bigger problem for ATI is that the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS can be already bought for less than the officially recommended $249, and that graphics card easily beats the RADEON X800 GTO, supports Shader Model 3.0 and HDR and overclocks well. Lacking the modern technologies and not overclocker-friendly because of the R430 chip, the RADEON X800 GTO looks pale against the new product from NVIDIA, even though surpasses the RADEON X1600 XT with its bottleneck of four TMUs, in almost all games


this from x-bit labs. I did consider the 1600pro from ATi but that does not seem to stand up to comparison so I will try the Asus card out.