Asus V6600 Deluxe A good All in one card??

[Mustanggt]

I am trying to figure out what to get for my next video card upgrade. I have a C355@550 with a TNT and To tell you the truth I am still very happy with this TNT As for as Gaming and 2d performance I am not a hard core gamer mostly Half life but I would like to capture images from my camcorder to my pc and maybey run games on a big screen TV. If I do play games I never go any higher than 800/600 res as I see no difference in quality going to higher res. The Asus V6600 is old news and can be had for $150 right now I know about the Radeon but same card is close to $300 Any opinions on the Asus Deluxe?? Thanks for any help The 6600 deluxe overclocked is as fast as a CL Annihilator pro ddr is most of Anands benchmarks.

 

[trots]

Well, this is probably moot now as it's been almost 2 weeks since you posted this, but maybe it'll help someone else.

I have the Asus V6600. I chose it mostly because it scored pretty well on Windows and business apps which is most of what I do, and it's been good as far as that goes. But I've tried two 3d games and both have failed miserably using the Asus drivers. I'm not much of a "gamer" either, but I at least want the option. The first was a demo that came with the card, so I didn't pay it much attention. Then I purchased and installed the Blair Witch game, and it was not able run with 3d accelerated graphics. Well, it ran but looked like there was a bright strobe flashing in my monitor which rendered the game unplayable in that mode. Then I read to try the nVidia drivers for the GeForce 256, and now everything works like a charm. I also noticed that using the Asus drivers, my avail. AGP memory always said 16M, now it shows correctly as 32M.

BUT, from what I read, if you use the nVidia drivers you lose the Video In feature which you said you need, so it doesn't seem like a good choice for you. I have a digital camcorder and a firewire card, so I didn't care.