yes another one of these. now if you wanna have a whinge, have it to my fist.

now yes i'm a tightarse, and i'm only buying this video card to playing bf2.

i currently have a gf3 ti 500, which does me fine, but it won't play this stupid game.

NOW, what can i get for $250 max that will get me to play this game.

i have been told

http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=6&&bid=2&sid=12115 these cards, but whats the difference between the ultra and the non ultra?

I have two of these http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=6&&bid=2&sid=9099
running in my machine, they are probably the best bang for buck atm.

i didnt kno you could run 2 agp cards in one system Eds?

but yea if u can afford it go the GT ,_< uhaib

last edited by Fuknukle at 12:23:48 20/Jun/05

I have the PCIe equiv :P smartass

last edited by Eds at 12:27:31 20/Jun/05

listen to eds and get the $265 card well worth it.

Yeah, 6600GT is best bang for buck atm. A s*** cheap plain 6600 will do 13,500 in 3dmark01 with ease.

A 6600GT will do more like 16,000 or so i believe.

Whats the go with some cards having 256meg of memory and being cheapish...and anothers having 256 and being like 600 bucks?!

Is there performance difference between the one suhaib posted (256) and the one eds posted (128)? Theres a $50 dollar price dif too! (128 is more expensive!)

The 128mb cards usually have faster memory but not as much of it. If you're playing a game which contains high-res textures, the 256mb cards will usually perform better as it has room to hold a lot of those textures at once. Games which use less high-res textures will be able to swap those textures in and out much faster, but won't be able to hold as much at once.

I don't have numbers to throw around, but that's the general gist of it all. If you run games in high res (i.e. > 1280x960) you might want to go the 256mb, otherwise the 128mb will possibly outperform the 256mb versions. Feel free to correct me if I've made a mistake, but this is what I have been led to believe, plus i just did an exam and I'm tired.

I remember my old 9600XT extreme, it had only 128mb, but it had 2.5ns and thus outperformed many of the regular 256mb XTs.

the vanilla version has a lower core clock speed less pipelines. slower memory bandwidth to name just a few

Albatron 256MDDR FX6600Q TVO
Warranty: 12 mths


Grapics Engine:GeForce 6600
Memory Size:256MB DDR
Memory Bus:128bit
Engine Clock:300Mhz
RAMDAC:400Mhz
Max. Resolution:2048x1536@85Hz
Bus Standard:AGP8X
VGA Output:Yes
TV Tuner:No
TV-out:Yes
VIVO(Video-in.Video Out):No
DVI:Yes
WINDVD:No
WIN DVR:No
WINDVD Creator:No
Power DVD:No
Power Director:No
3D GAMES:ARX Fatalis
Game Pack

I'd heard UMart doesn't cover the full 3 year warranty on these things - didn't think I'd actually see them print it out in black and white :/


does your mobo have a compat agp slot Suhaib?

sup james.!

i didn't end up going for that card. went to computer alliance and bought the 6600GT for $270. pretty happy with it, but only got a 1.4ghz t`bird so thats the bottleneck big time.

I've got an abit nf7-s. so maybe?


had some trouble with installing it. as soon as i hooked it up, it had uninstalled all my nforce drivers, lan, sound, agp port etc. an hour of f***ing around, i'm into battlefield shooting up yanks :P

koopz who's that indian guy in the tech department? he was abit of a rude and didn't have a clue ! aaron was helpful!

koopz who's that indian guy in the tech department?

Gregor - he's Russian.


Got technical problem? Power (aka Peter) for the win every time


last edited by koopz at 16:54:22 21/Jun/05

asifn't just ring up and ask for james :P


edit, koopz you know what that means, lanning time :)

last edited by Suhaib at 16:55:39 21/Jun/05

indeed..


if Qgl isn't about to put up a decent lan, no doubt the tradition is still carrying on with the sponsors.


figure it's high time to call over to Bear's joint ;)