Graphics Card Help

**Xiahou** · 09-04-2005, 23:27

Well, I understand that the 6600GT is supposedly the best bang for the buck right now... But for my part, Im still using a Radeon 9600 and haven't had any trouble running most games still- RTW runs great.

**LeftEyeNine** · 09-04-2005, 23:56

Can you get a 6600GT for 65 bucks ?

Xiahou, if you can, order one for me please ! (LEN is excited with shiny eyes)

Radeon 9600 costs more than 65 bucks as well, doesn't it ?

**Big_John** · 09-05-2005, 00:03

Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

Radeon 9600 costs more than 65 bucks as well, doesn't it ?

the 9600 pro is listed at $64.99 on that link i posted above.

**LeftEyeNine** · 09-05-2005, 00:52

Oh sorry, I should have considered the prices booming up when it comes to Turkey.

An ATI Radeon 9600 Pro chipset graphics card is sold for 124$ + KDV (Turkish VAT). That price you gave is as low as the half much it is sold here.

A simple comparison can be made against my NVidia chipset FX 5600 :

The core clock frequency of (GPU frequency) 9600 Pro is 400 Mhz, while my video card has it by 270 Mhz by default.

The memory frequency of 9600 Pro is 600 Mhz while mine is 500 Mhz by default.

Mathematically, GPU and RAM of 9600 Pro is a lot more "hard-working" than FX 5600's. While you can overclock the card to higher levels (I read a report overclocking 9600 pro to 567/700 Mhz), 9600 Pro simply outclasses Fx5600 and the lower level Nvidias.

Go, get it mate ;)

**Xiahou** · 09-05-2005, 03:01

Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

Can you get a 6600GT for 65 bucks ?

Xiahou, if you can, order one for me please ! (LEN is excited with shiny eyes)

Radeon 9600 costs more than 65 bucks as well, doesn't it ?

Nah, the 6600GT is probably about twice that much... just saying, it looks like the sweet spot right now for performance/price. Probably not too helpful for the guy with only $64 though, I admit.

But then, I did mention the Radeon 9600- which Im still happy with.

**Productivity** · 09-05-2005, 05:22

Originally Posted by Xiahou

Nah, the 6600GT is probably about twice that much... just saying, it looks like the sweet spot right now for performance/price. Probably not too helpful for the guy with only $64 though, I admit.

But then, I did mention the Radeon 9600- which Im still happy with.

I'd take the X800GT over a 6600gt though, although supply of htem is patchy. It also makes me chuckle that the X800GT was the fifth card released by ATI to directly compete with the 6600gt - nVidia really hit a winner with it.

**kiwitt** · 09-05-2005, 05:46

I regret getting my 6600GT. MTW no longer runs in campaign mode.

**LeftEyeNine** · 09-05-2005, 10:03

That's a system error situation with probabilities of video card driver failure.

I could not play my MTW in a resolution higher than 800*600 just before I realized that my video drivers were buggy. I installed a stable modified driver and the problem was over.

**Phatose** · 09-05-2005, 11:30

I dunno. As it stands, I'd be hard pressed to recommend an X800GT or a 6600GT, simply because of the deal ATi is having on 'refurbed' X800Pros. Three year warranty, most people are reporting that they seem to be new and the general feeling is that ATi is simply overstocked and selling them as refurbed so as not to upset the OEMs.

I'm about as anti-ATi as you can get, but a 12 pipe 256 MB card for $179 is kinda hard to argue with.