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- Oct 20, 2003
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I've never played Oblivion or FEAR on a 6600GT, but I played both on an A64 3200+ with a 6800GT & while FEAR wasn't too bad, Oblivion got pretty rough even at 1024x768 & medium detail settings in any kind of outdoor combat situation, so I think its safe to say that the much slower 6600GT isn't going to perform very well in that game & anything newer is likely to be even worse.
Don't get me wrong, for $95 the 6600GT isn't a bad card, but at this point its in over its head in new games... also I'm not aware of any problems being reported by anyone that are related to using an ATI graphics cards with Intel system as opposed to AMD & in fact I've built several P4 & 3 Core2 desktops in the last couple months, all of which used ATI cards & had no trouble at all.
Ultimately its your choice what you buy, but if it were my money I'd choose to go another way... good luck regardless.
Don't get me wrong, for $95 the 6600GT isn't a bad card, but at this point its in over its head in new games... also I'm not aware of any problems being reported by anyone that are related to using an ATI graphics cards with Intel system as opposed to AMD & in fact I've built several P4 & 3 Core2 desktops in the last couple months, all of which used ATI cards & had no trouble at all.
Ultimately its your choice what you buy, but if it were my money I'd choose to go another way... good luck regardless.