What do you think...

[ChrisM]

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

[4_Series_Scania]

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.

Read my Sig.  ;)

Paul.

[ChrisM]

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

[Gunny04]

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

[ChrisM]

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

[BrittMac]

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.

[marick626]

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

[congo]

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?d ... 61&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

[the_autopilot]

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.

[ChrisM]

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.

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Powered by NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT+HSI GPU Supports AGP 8X Supports Microsoft

[ChrisM]

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

Yes, but will the new card allow for them, if i download them

if you want to make another suggestion, my local computer shop orders off this site http://www.synnex.com.au/

[ChrisM]

Well i put the second card on lay-by.  Thanks for your help everyone