Simviation Forum - 6600 GT and ACOF

Jan 1^st, 2005 at 5:37pm

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I am going to buy this card but I have a couple of scenarios:

First My PC

Dimension 8200
P4@2GHZ 400FSB
768MB RDRAM@ 400MHZ
Geforce Ti4400
The mobo is AGP 4X

1) Can I buy a 6600GT AGP for this PC (the mobo is not 8x). Will reduce its speed to 4X?

2) Does my PC is prehistoric or it can handle another 1.5 year of games?

3) Did the 6600GT will make and incredible performance boost over the crappy 4400?

4) Will you spend 1100$ on a new PC or buy the card, sacrifice performance, but then buy a super faster PC 1.5 years later.

5) Does the 4X AGP will slow the card too much?

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Reply #1 - Jan 1^st, 2005 at 7:19pm

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I am going to buy this card but I have a couple of scenarios:

First My PC

Dimension 8200
P4@2GHZ 400FSB
768MB RDRAM@ 400MHZ
Geforce Ti4400
The mobo is AGP 4X

1) Can I buy a 6600GT AGP for this PC (the mobo is not 8x). Will reduce its speed to 4X?

2) Does my PC is prehistoric or it can handle another 1.5 year of games?

3) Did the 6600GT will make and incredible performance boost over the crappy 4400?

4) Will you spend 1100$ on a new PC or buy the card, sacrifice performance, but then buy a super faster PC 1.5 years later.

5) Does the 4X AGP will slow the card too much?

1,Yes 2, With a 6600 GT yes! 3, Oh Yes! 4, Card. 5, Yes,but you'd struggle to see a huge differance.

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Reply #2 - Jan 1^st, 2005 at 9:21pm

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Thx I will go for the 6600GT.

Will i be able to play ACOF with everithing high?

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Reply #3 - Jan 2^nd, 2005 at 9:19am

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Thx I will go for the 6600GT.

Will i be able to play ACOF with everithing high?

LOL..Hi Chris..short answer NO....can ANYBODY? ???

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Reply #4 - Jan 2^nd, 2005 at 10:18am

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Now with a Ti4400 I have almost everything to the max, with the 6600GT I expect a HUGE boost.

PS Obviously the weather kills my Ti4400

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Reply #5 - Jan 2^nd, 2005 at 12:12pm

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I went from an even crappier card than you. The radeon 9200 to the 6600GT. I can't have everything set high although I can get the same results at 1024x768 with 6600GT at the sliders I used to have under 800x600 with the 9200 radeon. I can tune it and get good results as long as I am parked at a not very busy airport but as soon as I fly and enter into busier areas I end up down in the mid-teens and low 20's anyway. My advice is as keep shif_z turned off and as long as it doesn't look mushy or slow-mo to your human eyes enjoy the sim and don't worry about whatever your frame rates are. I tell you, I flew and had lots of fun before I discovered shift_z and I was probably having all that fun under very poor frame rates and I couldn't tell the difference til i started pressing shift_z and its ruined my experience ever since. Instead of long evenings or weekend afternoons of joyful flying my simming has become a hardware chase and tune and I only have but a small performance boost to show for all my stress. No more shift_z. I've had enough of it, I want to have fun with it again.

AMD 2800xp on gigabyte vt600l k7 triton overclocked @ 2.3 ghz, 768 PC 3200, 128 DDR 6600GT AGP, 60 gig,5200 rpm maxtor, 160gig 7200rpm WD, Sony FD Trinitron 19

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Reply #6 - Jan 2^nd, 2005 at 4:56pm

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Whats Up

Bro something must happen to your PC. I swear on my grampas grave that I play it at 1600 x1200, all settings pretty maxed, clowds like 30% 3D, AA 2x in card but turned off in the settings, details and airplane almost to the max. And I hit 18 to 23 FPS. Tweaking and lowering settings upper 30's. If I put everything 100% I better puke than play.

But Obviously thats not flying through NY. I like flying in the caribbean since I live in Puerto Rico.

Do me a favor, go to San Juan International Airport at Puerto Rico( Luis Munoz Marin), put everything maxed and tell me what happens. Grin

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Reply #7 - Jan 2^nd, 2005 at 11:17pm

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if your mother board isn't agp 8x I doubt that you'll be able to make that card work on it...I'm sure that card is 8xagp

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Reply #8 - Jan 6^th, 2005 at 10:25pm

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Its backwards compatible, but you'll lose some performence.

BTW, what is ACOF?

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Reply #9 - Jan 7^th, 2005 at 1:28am

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FS9 ACOF (A Century Of Flight Wink

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AMD64 3500+ @ 2200MHz 400FSB&&MSI K8N Neo 2 mobo nForce3 chipset&&1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 timings @ 10.2.2.2 &&XFX 6800 Ultra @ 450/1200&&80gig HDD&&Loadsa fans!!!

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Reply #10 - Jan 8^th, 2005 at 4:53pm

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LOL..Hi Chris..short answer NO....can ANYBODY? ???

I can. But you won't be able to on a 6600 GT.

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