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| Thread ID: 84973 | 2007-11-25 06:24:00 | Buying A BUDGET Gaming Card | CaptainVincent (76) | Press F1 |
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| 614985 | 2007-11-25 21:31:00 | I vote a 8600GTS beats all of those cards including the HD2600XT for about $20 more. www.techpowerup.com www.pricespy.co.nz |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 614986 | 2007-11-25 21:32:00 | 8800GTX got owned by the 8600GT check the link haha www23.tomshardware.com |
CaptainVincent (76) | ||
| 614987 | 2007-11-25 21:36:00 | 8800GTX got owned by the 8600GT check the link haha www23.tomshardware.com ROTFL yea kinda misleading, 1024x768 so it would have been CPU bottlenecked, The GTX was probably running at about 3% hehe. needless to say, order is soon restored, although still clearly CPU bound, funny engine FlightsimX. www23.tomshardware.com |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 614988 | 2007-11-25 21:59:00 | I vote a 8600GTS beats all of those cards including the HD2600XT for about $20 more. www.techpowerup.com www.pricespy.co.nz Yes I was going to say dont go via Toms Charts. The 8600GT will beat the 2600XT in just about every benchmark..... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 614989 | 2007-11-25 22:17:00 | Yes I was going to say dont go via Toms Charts. The 8600GT will beat the 2600XT in just about every benchmark..... Yea I agree the 2600XT is a poor option, slower more expensive. The 8600GTS is around 20-30% faster than the 8600GT, what I was trying to say is, if he is considering a 2600XT @ $207 may as well have a dam good look at the much faster 8600GTS at around $230. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 614990 | 2007-11-25 23:11:00 | Just realised, they were talking the GT, not GTS....my bad! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 614991 | 2007-11-25 23:46:00 | Man that 8600GT looks mighty fine at $168. But yeah if I have the money in a few weeks will get a 8600GTS. Any more cards I should consider between $150-250? | CaptainVincent (76) | ||
| 614992 | 2007-11-26 03:08:00 | I hear the 8600GT is a pretty good card. Personally, I had a Powercolor NVidia card and I would avoid them. You might want to mention the specs of your computer. I'm running a AMD 3500 CPU and found that the CPU was so much of a bottleneck it wasn't worth upgrading from my 6600GT video card... |
Adge (6807) | ||
| 614993 | 2007-11-26 05:36:00 | 8600GT is a good card at that price IMO. 8600GTS maybe not, though, as they're only around $100 cheaper than an 8800GTS. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 614994 | 2007-11-26 08:41:00 | I have AMD Sempron 3200+ 768MB DDR333 GeForce FX 5200 I am upgrading parts respectively AMD64 X2 4000-4200+ Socket 939 2GB DDR400 Since mobo only supports DDR400 GeForce 8600GT Not upgrading mobo, These upgrades should be fine for playing half-life 2, battlefield 2, maybe even crysis in DX9 on low settings. Thanks guys you are all a real help. Anything else I should consider? |
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