Which video card should I get?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Airmack, 9 Jan 2005.

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  1. EVGA nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT

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  2. XFX nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT

    24 vote(s)
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  1. Airmack

    Airmack What's a Dremel?

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    Pick one from the list above.
     
    Airmack, 9 Jan 2005
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  2. DaHoboFest

    DaHoboFest Banned

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    this hsould go in graphics
     
    DaHoboFest, 9 Jan 2005
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  3. Airmack

    Airmack What's a Dremel?

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    I am not familier with the rules...
     
    Airmack, 9 Jan 2005
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  4. dead_man

    dead_man Confucious say: WTF???

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    then read the damn rules :wallbash:
     
    dead_man, 9 Jan 2005
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  5. Aa-chan

    Aa-chan AA-CHAN

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    This will get moved by a moderator, so onto the question at hand.

    Haven't used either, but a couple of my friends have XFX cards and think they're good aswell as a few magazines I've ready saying they're very fast :) . Doubt it would make all that much difference, but if I was picking, I would go XFX.
     
    Aa-chan, 9 Jan 2005
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  6. Highland3r

    Highland3r Minimodder

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    TBH unless you're getting a pre-overclocked one they are mostly all the same... Some might utilise faster memory than others, but the stock clocks are basically the same...

    Either of the above will be fine, jsut go for the cheaper option/best package...
     
    Highland3r, 9 Jan 2005
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  7. Airmack

    Airmack What's a Dremel?

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    Well, it looks like I am going with the BFG 6600GT because of the lifetime warranty.
     
    Airmack, 10 Jan 2005
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  8. Fibbles

    Fibbles What's a Dremel?

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    I'm going to buy a pair of Chaintech 6600GT's for my "Value SLI Rig". Mostly because they are blue.
     
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  9. Airmack

    Airmack What's a Dremel?

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    That's cool, did you see that new card with dual GPU's?

    Link
     
    Airmack, 10 Jan 2005
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  10. rogue-monkey

    rogue-monkey What's a Dremel?

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    A single, AGP, 6800GT would perform better than dual 6600GT's and would cost less.
     
    rogue-monkey, 10 Jan 2005
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  11. h4r7y

    h4r7y What's a Dremel?

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    from what ive read, the XFX 6600 is the one to go for.
     
    h4r7y, 10 Jan 2005
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  12. Fibbles

    Fibbles What's a Dremel?

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    I want SLI, and I want PCI-E.

    The price for the dual Chaintech 6600GT's is $380 ($190 X 2), a single EVGA 6800GT is $382. Not being an EVGA fan (bad experience with the 5900 Ultra and their sh!tty "customer service"), the next up in lowest prices is $390. The Asus GT is only $320, but it only has 128mb of RAM. The cards that I would settle for are past the $400 mark (the BFG for $419 and the Gigabyte for $459). I was able to buy my 6800GT Gigabyte for $405 (AGP). I try to only shop from 2 places unless there's something I NEED and Newegg or Zip Zoom Fly doesn't have it.

    My "value" SLI rig will probably include an Asus or Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI board, a pair of Chaintech 6600GT's, a 160gb IDE hard drive, a Sony DVDROM/CDRW combo drive, 512mb of DDR400, a 90nm AMD64 chip (the 3000 or 3200 are looking good), onboard sound and LAN. It will be limited to a 1280 x 1024 resolution, so any video card higher than the 6800 basic is probably a waste.
     
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    Fibbles, 11 Jan 2005
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  13. Tim S

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    My personal recommendation goes with the BFGTech 6600 GT OC - read about it here: http://bit-tech.net/review/387/

    Another one worth considering is the XFX GeForce 6600 GT.
     
    Tim S, 5 Mar 2005
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  14. chemo

    chemo True Jungle Brother

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    ive not read much on the evga card, but can see alot of decent things said about the XFX card.
     
    chemo, 7 Mar 2005
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  15. InFr@Red

    InFr@Red What's a Dremel?

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    bfg cards are really good i got the 6800 gt oc card i like it i had the x800 pro the 6800 gt oc kicked its ass go bfg
     
    InFr@Red, 8 Mar 2005
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