fx 5700

[Dough1397]

are these cards any good?? like comparable to a 6600 or an ati 9600 or what? not much info about them

 

[VIAN]

6600 > 5700 > 9600

 

[Dough1397]

mind throwing a 9800 in thurr?

 

[josepavento]

Originally posted by: Dough1397
mind throwing a 9800 in thurr?

Just below the 6600gt

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: Dough1397
are these cards any good?? like comparable to a 6600 or an ati 9600 or what? not much info about them

The 5700LE's are pretty terrible. Slower than the prior year's Ti 4200. Tom's Hdw has a monster AGP Video card chart with three generations' worth of cards covered with a half dozen benchmarking tests. The 5700 Ultras were pretty good, but heavily overpriced when new, and currently nonexistent on retailer shelves, as best I've seen. The biggest failing for the FX gpu's was being described as Dx9- ready, when in fact they were not.

 

[Dough1397]

would a 9800 pro or so be worth 300 canadian?

 

[Wolfshanze]

EGADS NO!

For 300 Canadian bucks (about $240 USD), you should be able to get a GeForce 6600GT, which are WAY better then a 9800pro, eh!?!

 

[mwmorph]

yeah. 6600gt is about 10% faster

 

[Eclipse556]

Originally posted by: Kiwi

The 5700LE's are pretty terrible. [/quote]

I can attest to this...

 

[imported_JamesDax]

Originally posted by: Eclipse556

Originally posted by: Kiwi

The 5700LE's are pretty terrible.

I can attest to this...[/quote]

I like my 5700LE.

Gigabyte 5700LE Turbo Force Edition 128MB. Comes out of the box clocked at 400/500. I have mine running at 425/550.

 

[Dough1397]

what is the memory bandwidth on a bfg 6600 gt oc 128MB DDR3

btw its 299

 

[Wolfshanze]

BFG GeForce 6600GT OC

It's 16.8 GB

 

[Dough1397]

ooh i meant bus.... soryry 128 bit or 256////

 

[Wolfshanze]

Those are two differant links I gave that give info on the card... however, it is a 128-bit bus (still outpaces my 256-bit GeForceFX5900... architecture is more imporant then some aspects like bus or memory quantity).

 

[Rock Hydra]

Don't buy a GeForce FX. Although my gives me okay performance, for less money I could have gotten a Radeon 9800 Pro.
Also, Only a GeForce FX 5700 ULTRA will give you the better performance over a 9600, 9600 Pro and 9600 XT in a lot of cases I've seen, but it's pretty costly. Anthing else will give you about the same performance as the former two.

 

[Dough1397]

why do like so many cards have "dual 400mhz ramdacs" whaats a ramdac?

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: VIAN
6600 > 9600 > 5700

Here fixed it for ya!

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: Dough1397
why do like so many cards have "dual 400mhz ramdacs" whaats a ramdac?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I belive they are used to generate the DVI signal.

 

[Rage187]

as noted 6600gt>9600>5700

 

[Wolfshanze]

why do like so many cards have "dual 400mhz ramdacs" whaats a ramdac?

RAMDAC is short for Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter, a single chip on video adapter cards. The RAMDAC's role is to convert digitally encoded images into analog signals that can be displayed by a monitor. A RAMDAC actually consists of four different components - SRAM to store the color map and three digital-to-analog converters (DACs), one for each of the monitor's red, green, and blue electron guns.

Bottom line, this converts everything into a signal your monitor can display... "Dual RAMDAC" usually refers to a video card being able to support dual monitors with seperate signals.

 

[Dough1397]

Cool thanks alot wolfshanze... would a video card with pure dvi output have ramdacS?