6600GT - evga or XFX?

[imported_lockdown]

Dude don't flame I just said my wal-marts here just sell xfx. They don't sell BFGs and no BFG isn't a bad video card. As far as wal-marts goes even yours I don't think they sell 6600 gt PCI EXPRESS cards I'm pretty sure they still sell the old PCI or maybe if you get lucky they might sell an AGP.

Like I said in my last post I was just using Wal-Mart and the Mall as a analogy. Plus don't be looking on wal-marts web site to prove me wrong I'm talking about going inside the acually store and why would sombody buy a video card from a Wal-Mart web site any ways? They wouldn't.

 

[Paktu]

At least in my area, both Micro Center and Circuit City sell eVGA cards.

 

[imported_lockdown]

Yep Circuit City is a good place to buy video cards. Never heard of Mirco Center though.

 

[AxeMurderer]

A video card of the same brand is the same at any store. Either circuit city or wal-mart. I also never said wal-mart sold top end cards but I did say they sell a few different brands (in store). But if they did carry XFX6600gt it would make no difference if I bought it from best buy or wal-marts. Same card.

 

[Insomniak]

Leadtek, followed by eVGA.

 

[Samus]

I have the XFX 6600GT's in SLI, run great.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the XFX has better memory than the competition; the XFX cards are far superior to ANY 6600GT, since they have 1.3ns memory and not standard 2.0ns memory.

 

[Gunsmokez]

The cheapest one

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

I bought an XFX, i would of went with evga if it offered dual dvi, but alas no, I have not needed to deal with XFX customer service, I got the new forceware drivers, and got it benchmarking 8150 in 3dmark03

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: ComatoseDelirium
I bought an XFX, i would of went with evga if it offered dual dvi, but alas no, I have not needed to deal with XFX customer service, I got the new forceware drivers, and got it benchmarking 8150 in 3dmark03

Might wanna try to bring that up. The rig in my sig crested just above 9k 3dm03 before I overclocked the GPU. At the current OC'd speed, it marks just shy of 9600. Granted, a slower processor and memory may be holding you back, but 8150 still seems a bit low for a 6600GT.

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

ahh, well i'll give you a bit of my system information, im running a Pentium 4 E 3.0 Ghz, with 256 x 2 dual channelled kingston value ram, would that explain the slower benchmark? im planning to upgrade to 512 x 2 dual channelled ram, would that up it a bit?

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: ComatoseDelirium
ahh, well i'll give you a bit of my system information, im running a Pentium 4 E 3.0 Ghz, with 256 x 2 dual channelled kingston value ram, would that explain the slower benchmark? im planning to upgrade to 512 x 2 dual channelled ram, would that up it a bit?

It's probably the RAM. 512 is a bit low. That, and my CPU is a little faster, but CPUs in 3dM03 don't mean much. When I OCd mine frmo 1.8 to 2.2, my 3dM03 went up 200 points, that's it.

I imagine when you're packing a full gig you'll probably be in the neighborhood of 9000, where you should be

Besides, don't sweat 3dmark too much. If youre GAMES play well, that's all you need to know

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

Ahh don't worry I ain't sweating, and I actually was mildly happy with the performance of my 6600GT, but not happy enough, It runs 1024 x 768 on medium quality doom smooth like butter, though i get some lag when i bump it up to high quality which I found unsatisfactory.. though i did assume that was because of the 512 ram. i was hoping 1 gig would cure that.

 

[ComatoseDelirium]

sorry for hijacking this thread a bit macko, but Insomniak do you know of any good sites with benchmarking results with system specs? *Nevermind found a good site*