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May 11^th, 2005 at 3:51am

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Can someone give their opinion about this graphics card please. N66256DP Would it run FS2004 well do you think???

&&Computer Specs: P4 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, NVIDIA 6600GT 128MB Graphics Card

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Reply #1 - May 11^th, 2005 at 3:00pm

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Your link dosent seem to work for me, here in the UK, but, considering your specs, I'd say either a Geforce 6800 LE or, a Geforce 6600 GT - both cost more or less the same & offer almost identical levels of performance.

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Reply #2 - May 11^th, 2005 at 9:41pm

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Seeing as the link did not work here are the specs:

Powered by NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GPU GIGABYTE's Turbo Force Edition guarantees better performance Supports AGP 8X and 8 pipelines Supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 1.5 Integrated with The Industry's Best 256B DDR memory Features 128-bit memory interface Supports Gigabyte "V-TUNER 2" overclocking application Unique Silent-Pipe Design Supports HDTV function and HDTV Cable enclosed Features DVI-I , D-Sub and TV-Out connectors Bundles 1 world-class game and PowerDVD 5.0

Chipset: NVdia GeForce 6600 (NV43+HSI)
Core Clock: 400MHz
Memory Clock: 500MHz
Memory size: 256 MB
Memory Bus: 128 bit
Card Bus: AGP 8X
Pixel Pipeline: 8
Memory Type: 16x16-4 DDR
Support Direct X: 9.0c
D-sub: Yes
TV-OUT: S/AV
Video-in: No
DVI port: DVI-I
TwinView: Yes
Fan/Heat Sink: Silent Pipe
RAMDAC(Mhz): 400
Tools: V-Tuner II
CRT+TV: Yes
CRT+DVI: Yes
DVI+TV: Yes
DVI+TV+CRT: No
Weight: 1KG
Warranty: 3 years
Software: Power DVD 5.0

Thanks... Grin

&&Computer Specs: P4 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, NVIDIA 6600GT 128MB Graphics Card

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Reply #3 - May 11^th, 2005 at 10:08pm

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Are they sure its 256MB card? Last I knew 6600s were only 128 Megs..... but if that reads true, then yes, very good card to go with... link works! at least for me, Cheers, Gunny

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Reply #4 - May 12^th, 2005 at 6:10am

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I checked several websites and it appears that it is a 256mb card

Will this card give me good water effects? And.. Roll Eyes

..what is the Pixel pipline for?

&&Computer Specs: P4 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, NVIDIA 6600GT 128MB Graphics Card

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Reply #5 - May 12^th, 2005 at 8:32am

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Pixel pipeline is kinda like traffic lanes on a highway. The more pipelines, the more information that can be put through at one time. The more lanes on a highway, the more cars that can pass by at the same time. Crude analogy, but it works.

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Reply #6 - May 12^th, 2005 at 4:00pm

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I checked several websites and it appears that it is a 256mb card

Will this card give me good water effects? And.. Roll Eyes

..what is the Pixel pipline for?

the water effects willl be the same even if you have a geforce 6800

you need to download water textures from avsim or wathever to make it loock more realistic.

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Reply #7 - May 12^th, 2005 at 10:37pm

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256mb of slow card isnt as good as 128mb of fast card, and that card is not a world beater.

It looks like a tweaked 6600 vanilla gpu and not a true 6600GT.

The old trick is at play again with "U", "Ultra" and "Turbo" appendixes to cards that are just tweaked in their class. They are manufacturers marks and have no bearing on the actual class of the card.

That card is 8 pipe, 400mhz/500mhz.

A plain 6600 gpu is 300mhz/500mhz core/memory speeds.

True 6600 GT's are 16 pipe, and good ones have a fast 500mhz+ core speed and fast 1000mhz quality ram (the amount doesnt matter so much) with tight timings.

Perhaps you should be looking for this one... or something similar....

http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=review&dId=761&dPage=2

They managed to overclock it in the vicinity of 700mhz/1200mhz core/mem.

Look here.... this is a Sydney re-seller, there are both 6600 and a well priced AGP 6600 GT at $299au

http://www.hardlynormals.com.au/index.php?cPath=59_61&sort=2a&page=4

Note the cheaper card with 256mb of ram.... it simply won't ever perform like the more expensive 6600GT even though the GT only has 128mb of ram. The Ram on the 6600GT is much higher quality and clocked much faster.

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Reply #8 - May 13^th, 2005 at 5:34pm

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Well said congo.

The 6600 is not worth its price due to the 6600 gt offering sometimes twice the performence of an 6600 vanilla in some benchmarks and the fact that the 6600 gt is not that much more expensive.

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Reply #9 - May 16^th, 2005 at 5:23am

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This is going to be very expensive especialy with my measly $30 a week income:P, but how about this card this is probably all that i could afford.

Powered by NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT+HSI GPU Supports AGP 8X Supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 1.5 Integrated with The Industry’s Best 128MB DDRIII memory and 8 pipelines Features 128-bit memory interface Supports Gigabyte "V-TUNER ||" overclocking application Supports HDTV function and HDTV Cable enclosed Features DVI-I , D-Sub and TV-Out connectors Bundles 1 world-class game and PowerDVD 5.0

Specifications
Chipset: NVdia GeForce 6600GT (NV44+HSI)
Core Clock: 500MHz
Memory Clock: 1000MHz
Memory size: 128MB
Memory Bus: 128 bit
Card Bus: AGP 8X
Pixel Pipeline: 8
Memory Type: 8x32-2 DDR III
Support Direct X: 9.0c
D-sub: Yes
TV-OUT: S/AV
Video-in: No
DVI port: DVI-I
TwinView: Yes
Fan/Heat Sink: Fansink
RAMDAC(Mhz): 400
Tools: V-Tuner II
CRT+TV: Yes
CRT+DVI: Yes
DVI+TV: Yes
DVI+TV+CRT: No
Weight: 1KG
Warranty: 3 years
Software: Power DVD 5.0

&&Computer Specs: P4 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, NVIDIA 6600GT 128MB Graphics Card

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Reply #10 - May 16^th, 2005 at 5:40am