Your thoughts on the Gigabyte GeForce 6600

Nick_Person · 22-January-05, 11:12 PM

What do you think of this card

Will it run some of the newer games (Doom3, Half Life2 etc) one reasonably good settings (medium high-high)?

Thanks

Arkangyl · 22-January-05, 11:15 PM

What sort of FPS you get will also be affected by your processor, motherboard and RAM.

in general though I think the 6600's run Doom 3 @ 10x7 maybe 12x10 (if oc'ed this ought be fine) with everything on high, probably without filtering though. HL2 will be 10x7 on high, 12x10 on med unless OC'ed

ballpark numbers, dont hold me to those

Nick_Person · 22-January-05, 11:17 PM

If you need it this is the proposed comp specs (when I build it)

p4 2.8GHZ
1 Gig ram
(that vid card)
160 gig hard drive
Windows xp

j-dogg · 22-January-05, 11:21 PM

It all depends on the processor, they have gotten a Voodoo 5500 AGP to run HL2 @ 10 x 7 at like 40 to 60 FPS. If a Voodoo 5 will run HL2 a 6600 should have no problem at all running high-res.

TYCOON · 22-January-05, 11:38 PM

They are equal to a 9800Pro as far as I know.

Older games: 9800Pro is better
Newer games:6600GT is better....

Teranfirbt · 23-January-05, 12:00 AM

Is that card a plain 6600 or a 6600GT? Because for that price, a 128 meg 6600GT will beat the pants off a 256 meg plain 6600...

Nick_Person · 23-January-05, 12:36 AM

Since I chose another motherboard (socket 754 with AMD Atholon 64 3000+ processor) I desided on the HIS Radeon 9600XT . Is this a good choice?

Thanks

22-January-05, 11:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
Nick_Person Apex Techie Wannabe Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17	Your thoughts on the Gigabyte GeForce 6600 What do you think of this card Will it run some of the newer games (Doom3, Half Life2 etc) one reasonably good settings (medium high-high)? Thanks

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j-dogg Mystical Schwinn Guru Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: West Melbourne, Fl-HOE-rida Posts: 8,821	It all depends on the processor, they have gotten a Voodoo 5500 AGP to run HL2 @ 10 x 7 at like 40 to 60 FPS. If a Voodoo 5 will run HL2 a 6600 should have no problem at all running high-res. __________________

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22-January-05, 11:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
Arkangyl Hoe-lier than Thou Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: far, far away Posts: 2,342	What sort of FPS you get will also be affected by your processor, motherboard and RAM. in general though I think the 6600's run Doom 3 @ 10x7 maybe 12x10 (if oc'ed this ought be fine) with everything on high, probably without filtering though. HL2 will be 10x7 on high, 12x10 on med unless OC'ed ballpark numbers, dont hold me to those

22-January-05, 11:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Nick_Person Apex Techie Wannabe Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17	If you need it this is the proposed comp specs (when I build it) p4 2.8GHZ 1 Gig ram (that vid card) 160 gig hard drive Windows xp

23-January-05, 12:36 AM	#7 (permalink)
Nick_Person Apex Techie Wannabe Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17	Since I chose another motherboard (socket 754 with AMD Atholon 64 3000+ processor) I desided on the HIS Radeon 9600XT . Is this a good choice? Thanks

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