AGP 6600 GT's available!!!

[Severe]

Well, after cancelling my order earlier today because it was supposedly on backorder for a week, I got home to an email from Buy.com saying my order had shipped. What a wonderful inventory system they have. I called and the corrected the cancellation and I'm all set.

Anyway, long and short of it is, I was able to grab one of these for $217.

I did manage to see my friends tonight and was pretty impressed. The only two games I loaded was BF1942 and EQ2.

BF1942/DC Final ran like a dream with everything maxed.

EQ2 look beautiful but was definitely getting some caching lag.

 

[Jassi]

How much performance difference is there between the AGP and PCI-E versions? I doubt much. Also, what is needed for the SLI option to be open? 1 - PCI-E x16 or 2?

 

[jreg]

Originally posted by: Jassi
How much performance difference is there between the AGP and PCI-E versions? I doubt much. Also, what is needed for the SLI option to be open? 1 - PCI-E x16 or 2?

Anand's 6600GT AGP article
Anand's SLI preview article
Wesley's NF4 Article

 

[Jeraden]

Originally posted by: Ender17
I ordered mine Wednesday as well and I got my shipping confirmation about 2 hours ago

Yeah, I got my notification about the same time. Ships from CA. I have scheduled delivery date of Nov. 26th, thats prety far away.

 

[estew33]

Originally posted by: EnDaRi
i wish i had made my computer right now so i could have built my computer with the nvidia 6600 gt instead of my ati radeon 9600 xt

Swll the 9600 xt and buy the 6600

 

[Hrochard]

Originally posted by: Ender17
I ordered mine Wednesday as well and I got my shipping confirmation about 2 hours ago

I just got mine, as well. Gee, expected delivery is only 10 days from now. Great. I really should've waited to order from Newegg instead of Buy.com.

 

[PolaroidPaul]

How about the quality of the manufacturer? Is getting an XFX card a good idea (not meaning to say in any that it is or is not)? Do they provide the suppport that ATers demand for drivers etc.?

I am building a so-so machine now ( I have all the parts already) to be followed by a better machine in a month or so. AGP should not be an issue by then but I still don't see any choices for an AMD based PCIe board and I will not be happy if only one choice is available by the time I need to build.

If I can't buy it when I need it, it is not much help to know that someone is going to have it in the future.

 

[cisco kidd]

XFX is fine they are a branch of Pine technologies their products are as good as anyone else

ck

 

[chuckyH]

Buy the way there is already a thread on this topic covering several of the available 6600 AGP's here
Geforce 6600GT AGP $220
please use the seach function