i have a limit of $200 for a new video card, i don't want 'oh spend the extra $100 and get such and such card.

somethign that will play hl2 better than my gf4 ti4200

i'll give you 40 for the ti =P

dont be a povo

just get a 6600gt

sell something for the extra 100 bux

yor blowing your cash if u dont

Stop.
Think.
Save your money.

You're not going to get anything markedly better than your GF4Ti in terms of performance for $200.

just get a 6600gt

I have a 6600GT PCI-E and its awesome, great card.

alright 6600gt is it.

besides getting a new vid card being cool

all the 4200's i know run hl2 awesomely

whats your problem with it?

I get 40fps with my ti4200 in hl2dm on 1024x768 low detail. It's not that bad.

ull prolly have to wait for an AGP version of the 6600 tho...

edit - dw, i see they are out now

last edited by - NaK0r - at 12:47:37 29/Dec/04

there is an agp version ...

oh it runs hl2 fine, but cs:s it's useless, fps jump from from 70 - 17

character thats the one i just ordered haha

last edited by Paveway-3 at 12:49:31 29/Dec/04

I got a 6600gt for christmas (that Albatron one actually), haven't installed it in my PC yet though, only just got home from my parents place.

You do realise that Umart is closed until the 4th of January though dont you?

last edited by Khel at 15:28:33 29/Dec/04

you can't really jump up to the next level with only $200...
Unless you can get a 9800 pro 2nd hand cheap or a fx5900 you'd be wasting your time/money.

Months later and I'm still waiting for Umart to get the Logitech elite keyboard instock.

You do realise that Umart is closed until the 4th of January though dont you?

If you expect to get you're order pretty fast, I won't count on it because of the amount of back orders there are after xmas & NYD

last edited by freakazoid at 15:46:47 29/Dec/04

CA is open and has the Albatron cards, but you'll be paying an extra $30. Depends how badly you want it I guess, $30 to get it right now :)

Is the Albatron 128MDDR FX6600GT much better if at all than the Radeon 9600XT 256MDDR /128Bit AGP8X Gigabyte VIVO ?

Well, I used to have a 9600xt (128mb though, not 256mb), and I installed my new Albatron 6600gt today, and I'm getting almost double the performance, so yeah I'd say its significantly better :)

toms hardware has nice graphs of vid card performance

What are some good hardware sites that compare this sort of thing?

EDIT: spook mind reading motherf***er :)

last edited by reload! at 20:56:05 29/Dec/04

my buddy at work does nothing else but sit on toms hardware excitedly awaiting the next graph release (regardless of what its for, cpus, vid cards, raid)

then he prints them out and studies them for ages

ah shaq and his graphs.. :)

he so lubs toms hardware

It's just the pretty colours he likes.

and the lines ^ dont forget the lines!

I run dual 6600gt's :) so I guess one on its own would still be good.

lucky bastard!

mmmm sli goodness :P

Mines an AGP 6600gt, so no chance for SLI lovin :(

Actually, that brings up a question, whats the actual performance like on SLI 6600gts versus say a single 6800 ultra? Have you benched anything on the SLI cards and compared it at all? Would be interesting to see how it stacks up because $$$ wise its prolly about the same (or close to).

last edited by Khel at 14:31:22 30/Dec/04

less forum chat more replying to emails and get on irc you ass