Could I get an opinion on this card?

[dme92189]

Can I get some opinions on this card please? It hits my price point spot on, and has all i could want to paly all the most recent games.
What do yall think?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127201
Also this card?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102652R

 

[dme92189]

Also, if this card is good, what would be a good manufacturer around the same price point, i know there is an asus and a sapphire around the same price.

 

[Matthias99]

A 6600GT will perform better for about the same price. A vanilla X800 will perform even better, but costs a little more. I can't say I would recommend the X600Pro given the other choices out there.

 

[dme92189]

The 6600gt is better even though it ahs 128 mb of RAM and only 8 pixel pipelines? Could you tell me why? Hehe im kind of confused

 

[BlacKJesuS]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102644


Faster than all those cards...AND cheaper

 

[Bobthelost]

Originally posted by: dme92189
The 6600gt is better even though it ahs 128 mb of RAM and only 8 pixel pipelines? Could you tell me why? Hehe im kind of confused

Head over to Tom's Hardware Guide, then look at the performance.

Then stop wondering why and just accept that it is

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
A 6600GT will perform better for about the same price. A vanilla X800 will perform even better, but costs a little more. I can't say I would recommend the X600Pro given the other choices out there.

That's pretty much the same advice most people would give including myself. The 1600 is not horrible, it's just not really good for the $.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: BlacKJesuS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102644


Faster than all those cards...AND cheaper

QFT. It's also unlockable to 16 pipes, making it the equivalent of an x800XT.

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost

Originally posted by: dme92189
The 6600gt is better even though it ahs 128 mb of RAM and only 8 pixel pipelines? Could you tell me why? Hehe im kind of confused

Head over to Tom's Hardware Guide, then look at the performance.

Then stop wondering why and just accept that it is

It's from the 500/1000mhz clock speeds, which is pretty crazy for a mid range card, imo. That's why it does well.

 

[kylebisme]

I'd stick to a 256mb card even if it is a bit slower, but then I don't like swapping and prefer high res textures.

 

[Wentelteefje]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
A 6600GT will perform better for about the same price. A vanilla X800 will perform even better, but costs a little more. I can't say I would recommend the X600Pro given the other choices out there.

QFT... The X600 will not be able to make today's games run acceptable anymore, but we were talking about a X1600Pro here...

However, compared to a 6600GT, this one doesn't fare quite well unfortunately... Look here for a review (although the tested version even has GDDR3)... As you can see the 6600GT beats it a lot of the times... IMHO, the true power of the X1600 still needs to come... If you can see how it performs in 3DMark05's Shader Tests...

@ BlackJesus: Great alternative... Didn't know there were 128MB GTO's with DDR2... :thumbsup: Too bad this card is still "limited" to SM2.0b...

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21

Originally posted by: BlacKJesuS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102644


Faster than all those cards...AND cheaper

QFT. It's also unlockable to 16 pipes, making it the equivalent of an x800XT.

Not true... This one will not be unlockable...

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: dme92189
The 6600gt is better even though it ahs 128 mb of RAM and only 8 pixel pipelines? Could you tell me why? Hehe im kind of confused

Sorry, I actually misread the link (thought it was an X600, not an X1600; X1600 prices have clearly come down a LOT). You'll be looking at a similar performance level to the 6600GT with that card (the X600 is much slower). The X1600 doesn't have 12 full pipelines (it has 12 pixel shaders and 5 vertex shaders, but only 4 ROPs), so in a lot of games it doesn't perform as well as you might think. The 128-bit memory (and relatively slow DDR RAM) also hurts it considerably compared to other cards in the same price range.

digit-life PCIe benches from a few months back

 

[dme92189]

Thanks for the help yall, i might just get a 6600gt but ill do some research on the x800 gto!

 

[Wentelteefje]

Unfortunately you're not going to find any review on the 128MB... I was interested in it myself too, but then saved more and picked 6800GS...

The DDR2 should probably take this card up to respectable speeds (the 256MB version runs @ 1GHz), so then it would only come down to the difference between 128MB and 256MB of RAM...

EDIT: Look up reviews of the vanilla X800, it's the same card in fact...