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Leadtek 6600GT AGP!

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Cygnus X1

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I play on an older dell M991 trinitron monitor (2002 model). This monitor likes 10x768 resolution the best, anything higher and the text gets a lttle to small.
Anyway, I can play cs source maxed out 4aa & 16af reflect all, SMOOTH gameplay at 60 to 100+fps.

BF2 I can play at high settings 10x7 -medium textures&medium shadows, all else high 50+FPS. I may be able to fix that with another gig of memory🙂

Point is-I thought I might have to buy one more AGP card before I move to PCI-E 6800U or X850XT PE. It would of been Nvidea because ATI will never price beat Nvidea. I don't blame ATI because thay are based in Canada and money just doesn't go as far as the US. So looking at current result's 6600gt's are one hell of a card overclocked or not. I have smooth gameplay at stock speeds 500core 900mem.🙂 I did overclock it to 550/1050 but really didn't need it. Once this baby warms up at stock speeds it really flys.

Question- Eventually I will need a new monitor when this one dies, but I'm happy at 10x7 max settings source and BF2. Fear will not be purchased for poor optimized in house development. Do other high end 19in and 21in CRT Monitors show 1600x1200 desktop, internet, fonts, readable without massive tweaking? Mine will do 1600x1200 @ 72mhz but the everything is too small to read.

Looks like this system will hold for longer than I expected.

All of this is just my opinion🙂

Man Nvidea really pulled one out with the 6 series. OUCH! Ok hate me🙂 now
 
Congrats man! I love my 6600GT (Pci-E). Hey if you can afford $30, get a zalman VF-700CU and overclock MADLY!!!! I got my 6600GT from 500/1000, to 602/1255!!! 3dmark05 score jumped from 3400, to 4010!!!

EDIT: There are some good 19" and 21" monitors that will do 1600x1200 at around 85hz.
 
Originally posted by: Crescent13
Congrats man! I love my 6600GT (Pci-E). Hey if you can afford $30, get a zalman VF-700CU and overclock MADLY!!!! I got my 6600GT from 500/1000, to 602/1255!!! 3dmark05 score jumped from 3400, to 4010!!!

EDIT: There are some good 19" and 21" monitors that will do 1600x1200 at around 85hz.
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WOW 4010! I maxed at 550 and 1050 3D Mark 3500. No nead to OC at the moment though.
 
Get a 915N LCD...

Anyway, 6600Gts are friggen awesome, this is truly value power. BTW, BF2 is just poorly optomized. 2 gigs of ram should help though, since it helps store all the textures. And that's where 6600GTs lack, with 128mb of ram.

Norm
 
Yeah, definately the best bang for the buck. I was recently pleasently surprised when I decided to really try to OC my 6600gt. I took it from the 500/900 stock up to 564/1180 stable. Before I had only been running it at 550/1010 or something around there to get it slightly above stock pci-e settings.
 
Eh, I've seen the 915N, and it works pretty well. (I used to be a CRT fan, very much like you, until I actually saw LCDs in action).

Norm
 
You'd pick up a pretty nice performance boost if you turn off AA on the 6600 GT, but to each his own.
I also have a Leadtek 6600 GT AGP, but whenever I overclock it 10%, I get artifacts in Farcry. This is a great card though for $150.
 
Can't you play games in something higher even if you are using 10x7 for Windows? Anyway, I think a 6800nu might be a better deal at this point given how close the prices are and the possibility of unlocking the fourth quad on the AGP versions. That Apollo one on Newegg is cheap and seems to have a nice stock heatsink.

Do other high end 19in and 21in CRT Monitors show 1600x1200 desktop, internet, fonts, readable without massive tweaking? Mine will do 1600x1200 @ 72mhz but the everything is too small to read.
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The text size really just depends on personal preference. Mine looks as sharp as an LCD at 1600x1200 and goes up to 109hz but the text is too small for me, so I use 1280x960 instead. (I like to have the text about the same size as printed text)
 
Dude, CP5670, you have a 2070SB. Use 1600x1200. Increase appearance font size to Large and set dpi to 120.
 
Odd thing about CRTs... my 19" CRT (low end) has very fuzzy text with 1600x1200 and only at 60hz, while it does about 100hz at 1600x900 with extremely crips text. ><

Norm
 
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