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Reviews Arrive For nVidia GeForce 6600GT AGP
bhtooefr writes "The Tech Report got their hands on a reference board of the nV 6600GT AGP, and did some benchmarks. Interestingly, even with a slower memory clock on the AGP card, it was FASTER in some benchmarks than the PCI-E card. Tests performed were: Doom 3, CS:Source, Far Cry, 3DMark05, Rome: Total War, and Xpand Rally (the last two tested with FRAPS)."
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Extreme Tech, Hard OCP and PC Perspective.
Dude, don't you even read up before you buy PC hardware?
Lets not forget AnandTech's review either http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2277
I think this card is a great one, but it looks like most store are marking it up too much. I think it should retail for around $200, but the cheapest I have found it is $220 with most store on the web hovering around $250. This card needs to be at $200 since vanilla 6800s can be found for $250. I'm looking for a new card myself, and this is definetly on the top of my list. The only thing holding me back is the possibility that I might be able to get a 9800 Pro for $150 from a friend.
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A video card that will easily play Doom3 and HL2 and cost around $200. Of course this card has been out for awhile...but few people have a PCI-e board (Now it's a viable AGP upgrade).
Also worth noting is that the 6600 offers full support for Shader Model 3.0 and DirectX 9.0C, ATI does not currently offer support for this yet.
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Concider this. I need a computer to do my job. It is a buisness expense. I write it off on my taxes. I build a new computer every july. I always build it on 3-4 month old technology (last july, i875p board p4 3.2ghz and 9800 pro) This july will be an amd64. I have never upgraded a pci, in fact when I sell my old pc's off they usually got another 1-2 years of video gamming without upgrades in them. Plus my return on investment is great. I spend about 1100 on a good pc. I usually get about 800-900 for the pc when I sell it. That makes the cost of my pc about 200.00. So, can I buy an play station 2, do my job on it (software development), browse the internet, play video games, use a keyboard and mouse, watch dvd's, burn dvd's and cdr's, Learn new operating systems with multiple partitions/hard drives, and keep myself on the edge of technology so my skills will be desireable for under 200.00? Oh yea, its got to be a tax write off too. ** Disclaimer, I own a ps2, psx, gameboy advanced, xbox, and gamecube. I bought the ps2 and xbox when I needed dvd players for my tv (hey why not), got the gamecube for christmas from my girlfriend, had the psx for years, and bought the gameboy for flights. I still play most of my games on the pc.
Interesting to note that Toms hasn't posted on this yet. I wonder how long they will take to get it to the review done to their satisfaction? Good for them.
Fast low latency chipset?
Probably biggest reason for AGP version to beat the PCI-E version
Drivers?
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Well, WoW and EQ[1|2] are on the pc because no one wants to sit in front of the tv with a keyboard in their lap.
Amen to that, and before anybody says 'you buy an motherboard that supports SLI, get one 6600 @ $200 now then add a second one when you need more speed', you'll probably have a hard time tracking down the exact same model 18 months later, not to mention you might be better off selling your old card, and just buying whatever mid-range is polpular then.
You'll probably come on top performance-wise and you won't have to pay the extra $$ for an SLI motherboard. From what I've seen, if you want a motherboard that does SLI, you'll have to pay for the ULTRA 3XTREME PLATINUM GT LX++ model with all sorts of bells and whistles you might or might not need.