now that ive been steered away from the 6200...

[webekyle]

now which one should i go with?

this:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-122-217&depa=1

or this:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=323288


check out the bundled software that comes with the leadtech card on newegg... or is that just fogging my thought?

oh, the leadtech is 128mb ddr and the chaintech is 256mb

 

[webekyle]

heres the old thread about 6200:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1527818&enterthread=y

 

[MisterChief]

Go for the one from zipzoomfly. Chaintech is a reputable company.

 

[Avalon]

Whaaaat!
Get the Leadtek. They make higher quality cards than Chaintech, and that one is cheaper to boot!

 

[Cheesetogo]

I would save a few more dollars and get a 6600 gt for around $200, if you must get a 6600 I would go with either. I would choose leadtek for quality, but the chaintek does have 256mb of ram. The extra ram probably will not make much of a difference though, so probably the leadtek as it's cheaper.

 

[webekyle]

remember the leadtech is 128mb ddr and the chaintech is 256mb

 

[webekyle]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
I would save a few more dollars and get a 6600 gt for around $200, if you must get a 6600 I would go with either. I would choose leadtek for quality, but the chaintek does have 256mb of ram. The extra ram probably will not make much of a difference though, so probably the leadtek as it's cheaper.

what about the extra games?

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: Avalon
Whaaaat!
Get the Leadtek. They make higher quality cards than Chaintech, and that one is cheaper to boot!

You're right. Besides, the extra 128MB of memory won't really help

 

[leedog2007]

go for the chaintech. the 6600 cannot use the extra frame buffer

 

[Cheesetogo]

The extra ram really is not going to help very much. The card just can't make use of that much memory, and it probably will not help you. THe leadtek 6600gt got first for all the 6600gt's, so I would imagine it's going to be just as good as the chaintek with extra ram. The games probably should not have much of a reason as to why you get the card, but you might like them, and if you don't you can always sell them. So, if you were to buy the leadtek you could probably sell the games for around 40-50 bucks, so it would be about $100 total versus $160 total. If you keep the games because you like them, it would be like $150 total versus 210 total (if you bought those games after). Go with the leadtek.

 

[leedog2007]

yet sorry

 

[leedog2007]

if you like the 2 games get that card. if not, get the cheapest one.

 

[Avalon]

A vanilla 6600 is not going to benefit from an additional 128MB of ram.

 

[Ackbar]

Maybe this is too late... and I don't want you to think that getting a 6200 will guarantee you to be able to get performance this high, but I wanted you to be aware that it's possible...
6200 3DMark05 score (overclocked)
Also, check out: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52765

Keep in mind just because a few people have been able to get performance this high doesn't mean that you will be able to. But there's a good chance!

All the benchmarks for the 6200 are way too low since they don't tap into its untapped potential. If you don't want to o/c at all... get the 6600 Leadtek though.

 

[webekyle]

Originally posted by: Ackbar
Maybe this is too late... and I don't want you to think that getting a 6200 will guarantee you to be able to get performance this high, but I wanted you to be aware that it's possible...
6200 3DMark05 score (overclocked)
Also, check out: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52765

Keep in mind just because a few people have been able to get performance this high doesn't mean that you will be able to. But there's a good chance!

All the benchmarks for the 6200 are way too low since they don't tap into its untapped potential. If you don't want to o/c at all... get the 6600 Leadtek though.

wow, thats only 1086 more than what i scored with my old 256mb FX 5500

 

[Ackbar]

Originally posted by: webekyle
wow, thats only 1086 more than what i scored with my old 256mb FX 5500

Hmm... I'm not sure if you're impressed or sarcastic... LOL!

 

[webekyle]

Originally posted by: Ackbar

Originally posted by: webekyle
wow, thats only 1086 more than what i scored with my old 256mb FX 5500

Hmm... I'm not sure if you're impressed or sarcastic... LOL!

im either impressed that my 5500 scored so high or sarcastic that the 6200 scored so low

 

[Ackbar]

Originally posted by: webekyle
im either impressed that my 5500 scored so high or sarcastic that the 6200 scored so low

Exactly... which is the question...

 

[webekyle]

Originally posted by: Ackbar

Originally posted by: webekyle
im either impressed that my 5500 scored so high or sarcastic that the 6200 scored so low

Exactly... which is the question...

thats it...either one...whichever comes first...im either impressed that my 5500 scored so high or sarcastic that the 6200 scored so low

 

[xbdestroya]

Let me just add, and I don't know if this makes a difference to you or not, that the Chaintech 6600, which I've been lookign at for awhile actually pondering my next AGP upgrade - is actually $15 MORE than it was exactly one week ago. Something doesn;t seem right there, and I would venture that the price will soon be coming down again after/around CeBit. Of course $15 isn't a lot of money, (though a decent percentage of it's price) so if you want to buy now, now's as good a time as any.

I'm waiting until after CeBit though, hoping ATI's new AGP bridge chip and maybe a new card announcement work to drive prices a little lower.

 

[Ackbar]

Originally posted by: webekyle
thats it...either one...whichever comes first...im either impressed that my 5500 scored so high or sarcastic that the 6200 scored so low

Or... maybe even both!

 

[paulsiu]

Get the 6600GT card. Even with lower RAM it's faster than the 6600 card.

 

[impemonk]

since both cards are clocked low... it won't make much of a difference how much ram each card has. However, just for style points I would get the Chaintech since it DOES have that 256MB of ram on hand... Then you can mislead all your friends when you say "yahhhh mannng, I got a moga high end card with 256MB of RAM!!!" Enjoi y moi le.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Avalon
A vanilla 6600 is not going to benefit from an additional 128MB of ram.

Explain? Why not? From reading some recent reviews, it seems that a 6600 or a pipe-unlocked/overclocked 6200 (same NV43 chip) is at least capable of playing Doom3 at 1024x768 @ 30+ fps. So why not get the extra VRAM, and allow it to load up the higher-quality textures? It shouldn't use any more of the onboard memory bandwidth, should it? It's not like it magically causes one to enable AA or something, that would indeed added to the memory-bandwidth demands. (Nor would extra memory allow one to enable AA either, and retain the same level of performance.)

As far as I can see, more onboard texture-storage = a good thing, no matter how you look at it, and memory-bandwidth vs. memory-size are more-or-less orthagonal quantities. Correct me if I'm wrong, of course.

 

[webekyle]

well the leadtech is on its way already...i can always sell it (less the games) or even the games separate and make profit maybe....its for my gf's pc anyway (for HL2 DM) and yahoo/pogo/those other free internet games thanks for all the help though