9800 Pro or 6600GT

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• Mar 27, 2005

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Hey guys im new to this forum & forgive me for being a simpleton but i just cant make my mind up on the following two cards
Opinions would be very helpfull

6600GT Card:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-GF66GT

OR

9800 PRO card:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?HIG-98ICEQ

Im inclined to the 9800 with that lovely cooling system but its more expensive (on a £150/$280 budget) & what do i know!?

 

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• Mar 27, 2005

• #2

Get the 6600GT. Although I'm an ATI fen, i think the GT would be better choice.

 

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• Mar 27, 2005

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6600GT is MUCH better

 

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• Mar 27, 2005

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MUCH better if playing without AA and AF turned on.

 

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• Mar 27, 2005

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malware said:

MUCH better if playing without AA and AF turned on.

Click to expand...

The 6600GT is so much faster that its 128 bit memory bus doesnt really matter. It has GDDR3!!

 

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• Mar 27, 2005

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I sat on the fence with this one for a bit and I am happy I went with my 9800Pro(now an XT) tho I do think the next gen technology has its advantages

 

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• Mar 28, 2005

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So i have 2 for the 6600GT & 1 (just about by the sounds) for the ICEQ. as the 6600gt is £35/$65 cheaper im inclined to now pick that one. Am a bit worried by the lack of a cool exhaust cooling system the iceq has. will overheating even be an issue on the 6600gt?

6600gt:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-GF66GT

9800 ICEQ:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?HIG-98ICEQ

 

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• Mar 28, 2005

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the 6600gt has much more Performance but its louder then the 9800pro my tipp wait for the x800 or x800xl they will come in a couple of weeks or something
http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/hardware/grafikkarten/2005/sapphire_radeon_x800_x800_xl/9/

its only showing the performance under pci-x so my tipp wait.

 

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• Mar 28, 2005

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Get the X800XL if you can spen that.
If your budget is around the 250, go for the 6800LE

 

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• Mar 29, 2005

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Thx for the opinions Im gonna get the 6600GT. for like £115 i cant say no. Now i just have to get a better processor for my benchmarks to really improve!
currently on about 1700 03 3dmark

 

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• Mar 29, 2005

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A 3000+ 64bits AMD will do.
Take with that a nice ASUS mobo deluxe, and you're on your way.
(with 400MHZ ram ofc)
If you buy new ram, go to a shop and buy the value select 2X512, chances are to almost an 100% that it will be indenticals (Twinx). Good for dual channel
Then buy some cheap passive ram-cooling.

My bro got a +3200, went from 2.0GHZ to 2.5GHZ stable (increased volt to 1.7,ram to 2.7, stock cooling) I wanted to go higher, but my bro was afraid

My guess is he could have taken it to 2.7, but that was pushing it + shortening the live of the CPU drastic.

But a +3000 should be able to run@2.1/2.2GHZ without a prob.