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Finally decided to buy a new GFX card after mulling it over in the BF2 thread for some time. Have finally decided to go for an nVidia 6600 card, since theyre about £100 in price. I have found a pretty cheap website for the cards but am wondering which on infact to get. Not wanting to spend much more than £120 these are my options... (All AGP cards)
GEFORCE 6600 256MB DDR DVI TV - £109.99
GEFORCE 6600 GT 128MB DDR3 DUAL DVI TV - £102.99
GEFORCE 6600 8X 256MB DDR DUAL DVI TV - £89.99 (cant understand why this one is so cheap)
If anyone knows of any cards better than this for the same price, then you're welcome to tell me. Basically its a tossup between the GT 128 or the non-GT 256. I'm just wondering which one has the edge. Also if someone can point me in the direction of a comparision between these cards and some others, it would be mucly appreciated...
GEFORCE 6600 256MB DDR DVI TV - £109.99
GEFORCE 6600 GT 128MB DDR3 DUAL DVI TV - £102.99
GEFORCE 6600 8X 256MB DDR DUAL DVI TV - £89.99 (cant understand why this one is so cheap)
If anyone knows of any cards better than this for the same price, then you're welcome to tell me. Basically its a tossup between the GT 128 or the non-GT 256. I'm just wondering which one has the edge. Also if someone can point me in the direction of a comparision between these cards and some others, it would be mucly appreciated...
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Yeah the whole upgrading everything put me off the SLI route :(
I am looking to go to a 3.4ghz from my 2.4ghz some time this year but i have to stick with a motherboard that has AGP because of the card i just got but it will last me for a year or two so i'm happy.
:)
I am looking to go to a 3.4ghz from my 2.4ghz some time this year but i have to stick with a motherboard that has AGP because of the card i just got but it will last me for a year or two so i'm happy.
:)
but then he'd have to buy a motherboard that supports PCI-Express, which may then also include buying a new CPU that supports the same socket as the new motherboard if he's on a Socket A Athlon or 478 P4...
Don't quote me on this, but...
I would go for a card that supports SLI... and then when you need to "upgrade", purchase the same card a few years down the line and have two running.
But yes, I'm no pro on this topic.
I would go for a card that supports SLI... and then when you need to "upgrade", purchase the same card a few years down the line and have two running.
But yes, I'm no pro on this topic.
Tomm wrote:
> Cheers for that. Saves me shelling out for a bit longer. With the CPU
> speed, I assumed that cus it was a preset, i'd be able to set it at
> that. Obviously not.
When you say preset, do you mean FSB/multiplier preset?
Because if it was something way in excess of what the CPU is actually supposed to be, I'd guess that would be why it's a problem...
If it IS your power supply, maybe it's because it's one of those really crap £15 'brand X' PSUs that weigh about 3 grams.
> Cheers for that. Saves me shelling out for a bit longer. With the CPU
> speed, I assumed that cus it was a preset, i'd be able to set it at
> that. Obviously not.
When you say preset, do you mean FSB/multiplier preset?
Because if it was something way in excess of what the CPU is actually supposed to be, I'd guess that would be why it's a problem...
If it IS your power supply, maybe it's because it's one of those really crap £15 'brand X' PSUs that weigh about 3 grams.
You might want to hang on for another £50, then you can get the XFX 6800 GT.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Chippxero wrote:
> I'd go for that one if i was you, have a poke around inside to check
> for a connector but i think your 350w should be ok for the time
> being.
Cheers for that. Saves me shelling out for a bit longer. With the CPU speed, I assumed that cus it was a preset, i'd be able to set it at that. Obviously not.
> I'd go for that one if i was you, have a poke around inside to check
> for a connector but i think your 350w should be ok for the time
> being.
Cheers for that. Saves me shelling out for a bit longer. With the CPU speed, I assumed that cus it was a preset, i'd be able to set it at that. Obviously not.
I think in that picture the little black rectangle on the right hand side is the power connector, you could go out and get a power thing splitter, i am guessing that your pc powers down because the cpu is unstable when you changed the speed, my card gets unstable after a certain amount of overclocking so i assume CPUs o motherboards are the same.
I'd go for that one if i was you, have a poke around inside to check for a connector but i think your 350w should be ok for the time being.
I'd go for that one if i was you, have a poke around inside to check for a connector but i think your 350w should be ok for the time being.
Chippxero wrote:
> Whats your current power supply and where are you planning to get this
> card from? if you say lower than 300W then you have to upgrade. My
> 6800gt 256 ran off a 300w fine and it had a power connector on it to
> two fans, i have since got a 650W one just incase but i never had a
> problem.
Well I have a 350W, but I anticipate problems with a Beefier GFX card, since whenever I try and increase my CPU speed in the BIOS to one of the presets, it randomly powers down when I'm using it. Plus I dont think I have any spare power connectors, tho I havent looked inside it in a while...
Edit: This is where I'm getting my card from,
[URL]http://www.videocardshop.co.uk/product.asp?productcode=PV-T43A-NDF[/URL]
> Whats your current power supply and where are you planning to get this
> card from? if you say lower than 300W then you have to upgrade. My
> 6800gt 256 ran off a 300w fine and it had a power connector on it to
> two fans, i have since got a 650W one just incase but i never had a
> problem.
Well I have a 350W, but I anticipate problems with a Beefier GFX card, since whenever I try and increase my CPU speed in the BIOS to one of the presets, it randomly powers down when I'm using it. Plus I dont think I have any spare power connectors, tho I havent looked inside it in a while...
Edit: This is where I'm getting my card from,
[URL]http://www.videocardshop.co.uk/product.asp?productcode=PV-T43A-NDF[/URL]
Whats your current power supply and where are you planning to get this card from? if you say lower than 300W then you have to upgrade. My 6800gt 256 ran off a 300w fine and it had a power connector on it to two fans, i have since got a 650W one just incase but i never had a problem.
Chippxero wrote:
> Go for the GT it is a fair bit faster than the regular one.
Yah, just found some comparison stats. Just been looking at a few benchmark tests also, seems to suffer at higher resolutions, in comparison to some of the better cards, but I'll not be running in more that 1024x768 anyway. One question does it have a power socket on the card? In a few places I've seen it does, in others it doesnt. I need to upgrade my powersupply anyway, but I'd rather not buy one and find it doesnt reach or doesnt have enough connectors...
> Go for the GT it is a fair bit faster than the regular one.
Yah, just found some comparison stats. Just been looking at a few benchmark tests also, seems to suffer at higher resolutions, in comparison to some of the better cards, but I'll not be running in more that 1024x768 anyway. One question does it have a power socket on the card? In a few places I've seen it does, in others it doesnt. I need to upgrade my powersupply anyway, but I'd rather not buy one and find it doesnt reach or doesnt have enough connectors...
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