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Reviews Arrive For nVidia GeForce 6600GT AGP

Posted by timothy on from the if-this-is-cheap-I'll-take-the-lobster dept.

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)." pacmanfan contributes links to more reviews at Extreme Tech, Hard OCP and PC Perspective.

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  1. ... and yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the impressive video card in my Xbox, a PC in itself, is still 1/10th the price of this thing. Anyone else wonder why PC gaming is dying off?

  2. AGP pwnz0rs PCI Express by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    AGP 50h 102m>
    Your l33tn3ss >>>ANNIHILATES>> PCI-E!
    Your l33tn3ss ===OBLITERATES=== PCI-E!
    PCI-E is DEAD!
    AGP 50h 97m> sac corpse
    CmdrTaco gives you one gold coin for your sacrifice.
    AGP 50h 97m>

  3. Is it worth it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The rate at which new cards come out is ridiculous.
    I'm happy with my nVidia GeForce 420 MX. I mean,
    who's going to notice the difference between 250 frames/sec and 300? 25fps is good enough for TV.

    I fail to see the reason people get excited over such things.

    Is there any area of IT that actually requires the best available graphics card?

  4. Jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Steve Jobs invented nvidia.

  5. AGP Support by Renraku · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can't even get AGP support working on my SiS730 ECS board to get my 5700LE working at full speed. It just crashes repatedly and won't make it into Windows without severe corruption.

    Last thing I need is to shell out $200 for something that will be %2 faster than what I have.

    --
    Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
  6. Nvidia should use native PCIe, not AGP convertors by Bram+Stolk · · Score: -1, Troll

    The reason why nvidia's PCIe cards are slow, is
    that, unlike ATI, nvidia doesnt do native PCIe.
    They simply convert their AGP chips to a PCIe
    interface.

    They should drop the legacy shit, and design a
    proper modern card.

    --
    Bram Stolk http://stolk.org/tlctc/