Graphics Card Help

**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.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 09-06-2005, 02:01

I can recommend the Omega drivers. I got them for my (laptop's) Radeon Mobility 9000 and it helped a bit. Enough, really.

I want to get a new PC...

**LeftEyeNine** · 09-06-2005, 03:54

For Nvidia, NGOHq has good driver sets (NGO modified 71.89 version is the one I'm currently using). And as long as TweaksRUs team can clean the bugs, they work out very good drivers as well.