GeForce 6600GT any good?

[Flash7]

I was offered: Geforce 6600GT, 128MB DDR3, 128 bit.

is it a good card?

is there a card a lot better and not more expensive?

thanks....

[arthurleung]

7600gt?

[MantisCSS]

yeh but probs for around the same price like arthur says u could probs get a 7600GT

[Dorza]

In most places I've looked the 7600GT is a similar price to the 6600GT if i had a budget of around those sorts of prices then I'd get the 7600GT.

I had a 6600GT I paid around 140-50 quid 18 months or so ago and their great cards. After screwing it up the other day I bought a 6800GS-AGP 450Mhz/1.2Ghz Mem and its way better than my older card and its only around 90 quid. With everything set to highest quality in UT2004 and with 4xaa and 16AF i still manage an average of 75FPS at 1280x1024. Those sorts of settings on my old 6600GT produced an unplayable result.

[Flash7]

In most places I've looked the 7600GT is a similar price to the 6600GT if i had a budget of around those sorts of prices then I'd get the 7600GT.

I had a 6600GT I paid around 140-50 quid 18 months or so ago and their great cards. After screwing it up the other day I bought a 6800GS-AGP 450Mhz/1.2Ghz Mem and its way better than my older card and its only around 90 quid. With everything set to highest quality in UT2004 and with 4xaa and 16AF i still manage an average of 75FPS at 1280x1024. Those sorts of settings on my old 6600GT produced an unplayable result.

what was the memory and bit on your 6600gt? did you like it? (although the 6800 was better...).

[schmunk]

Folks - note, he's looking for an AGP card, so 7600s are out.

[kalniel]

6800GS (older games) or 1600pro (newer games) might be good bets.

[Dorza]

what was the memory and bit on your 6600gt? did you like it? (although the 6800 was better...).

I think the mem is set to 1000Mhz and the core 500Mhz though i could be wrong.

This is the card I had. Yeah i liked it, it could play the prey demo no problem. I wasn't planning on changing it until next year some time but then I broke it as I said earlier and had to buy a new and cheaper card.

[sawyen]

6800GS by a mile really.. no.. X1600Pro is a seriously crippled card.. its like a tricycle with a 50cc motor and flat tires..

Sorry, the X1600 series just never really got to me..

[JuanFlaiter]

6800GS can be unlocked, if you are lucky and are willing to take a risk, it might be a good buy.

[Dorza]

6800GS can be unlocked, if you are lucky and are willing to take a risk, it might be a good buy.

Indeed they can be however it needs to be the nv40 core; the nv41 core can't be unlocked. Around the net their saying the NV40 core is the AGP version and the NV41 is the PCI-E version hence you can't unlock the PCI-E version however this seems to be incorrect information (now at least) since the nv41 is also found in AGP versions.

[EllTheGamer]

Just wanting to be helpful the reason the nv41 is probably in the agp version too now is because nvidia like to upgrade their cores to the ones that dont unlock so that you have to pay more they did this with the 6200 (non turbocache ones turbocache was just completely incompatible cos of not enough physical ram to masquerade as a higher one with ram) Ati do the same. Its basic faceless corporation procedure.

Edit: nearly forgot, by now you want to avoid it it delivers parralel performance to x700pro (i have one and my mate has on and we outperform each other in dffernt games) but if you like me have a tight budget then by no means completley forget it its perfectly sufficient for things like bf2 1024x768 mid-high no aa or af.

[kalniel]

6800GS by a mile really.. no.. X1600Pro is a seriously crippled card.. its like a tricycle with a 50cc motor and flat tires..

Sorry, the X1600 series just never really got to me..

Yeah if you're comparing them head to head the 6800GS wins by miles, but they're very different categories - the 1600pro is budget. However, it also performs pretty well in modern games like Oblivion for the price.

[kalniel]

Just wanting to be helpful the reason the nv41 is probably in the agp version too now is because nvidia like to upgrade their cores to the ones that dont unlock so that you have to pay more they did this with the 6200 (non turbocache ones turbocache was just completely incompatible cos of not enough physical ram to masquerade as a higher one with ram) Ati do the same. Its basic faceless corporation procedure.

Not really. The reason is they stopped producing the old NV40 cores some time ago, but they still have stocks of NV41 which can be converted to AGP cheaply with their bridging chip which they have large stocks of as well. NVidia don't really care about unlocking because it doesn't threaten any card they market (you can't buy a 6800gt/ultra anymore) and the equivalent 7 series cards are better than even unlocked GSs. The NV41 core was cheaper to produce as well, and in any case I'd consider it better than the NV40 because the smaller nm process overclocks better as well (without the need for unlocking - lower pipes, but faster speed), while running cooler and using less power.

[EllTheGamer]

Yes but im just saying to a certain extent the reason they stopped producing the nv40 cores is that people were getting something (a higher model) for nothing and nvidia couldn't have that!

[kalniel]

Well I was saying that yes they could have that - it doesn't bother NVidia at all