Is nvidia geforce 6600GT(pci) a powerful graphic card for playing latest powerful games lik doom3/quake4/FEAR?
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Lol..funny situation. See i just had a 6600gt(pci) in december up until a few days ago. Then all of a sudden it stopped working, and it had decent graphics and good framerates. So i had to buy a new one and decided to go with the 7600gs which is cheaper and recent. I must say that it plays world of warcraft excellently with graphics on full and Doom runs well.\n\nand it runs really cool. at least the PNY one does.
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Any of these will make you one super happy man :)\n\nI also believe you have an AGP port instead of PCI-Express\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=1069609639&Submit=ENE&Description=geforce+6600gt&Ntk=all\n\nHere is a link of how it performs in 3dmark.\nIt gets a pretty good score. Although a 6200 is also a great card as you  can see the 6600gt is about 3 times as fast as the 6200.\nhttp://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/02/vga_charts_viii/page18.html
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I had a 5200 and it was nice for limited gaming.  If you are into serious gaming like BF2 or FarCry or other graphics heavy applications.  You want to try to spend as much as possible on a great video card.  The nVidia 6800 with 256 Mb of memory is what I'm using now and I love it.  It's by no means a top of the line card only cost about $160, but it works for the games I mentioned great.  I have PCI-Express though and that may make a difference.  You can get great reviews on vid cards at www.tomshardware.com along with prices from tiger and zipzoomfly.
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If you are looking for highest performance using multiboard, I would say Nvidia is better due to SLI. If you are looking to go with a single board, I would go with ATI Radeon. Overall, I think they are both closely matched video card. During the game, I do not think you would closely notice the difference of those two. As long as you are no using other video card from 3rd party, any one of those two should be okay.
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First, you must know your motherboard slots. If the color of the slots is white, its pci. if brown, its AGP. if black and long, its PCI-E. the best slot is Pci-e followed by agp then pci. If you want to buy best video cards, choose video card with slots of pci-e or agp. If you want to save your money, buy the affordable pci cards. Pci cards can't handle extreme graphics but they can play the game at the minimum resolution. After you buy a card. Disable or uninstall the driver of your old card using device manager. then unplug all the socket including monitors or any devices connected to your pc. then remove your old card and insert your new card in the motherboard. then boot your pc and install the cd that came with your card. then go to the site of your card to update its drivers. I recommend you to purchase Nvidia gefore 6 series because its affordable and can play games at the maximum detail. If you don't disable the driver of your old card, your new card won't work and can cause system problems.
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NO!\n\nIntegrated graphics is a no go for that heavy piece of game.\n\nBuy a laptop that has GeForce 7XXX go (7300 and up), or ATI Mobility Radeon X1XXX (1600 and up) with a DEDICATED (not shared) memory of 256 MB or more. Its a very heavy game, unless you want to play on lower detail. Even those laptop cards might not be powerful enough (will be kind of choppy). Buy a desktop with a sparkling new GeForce 8800GTX!\n\ngood luck!
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Well, what model is your computer and how old is it.  That will depend on what kind of graphics card you can install in it.  If you just got the computer it most likely has only a PCIe slot.  If it is even one year old then it probably has an AGP slot.  Also, the lower end Dell computers used to not include even an AGP slot so it depends on what model it is.\n\nMy favorite card right around the sub $250 is the Radeon X800XL best performance per price ratio, it is even a favorite over at Cnet.  But I will warn you if you don't have at least a 300W power supply in your computer you may not be able to use it.  But that's okay, another favorite of mine is the Geforce 6600GT but it only comes in a 128MB version.\n\nBut you really need to check your computer, either in the manual or if you have the original specs and see if it has either an AGP 8X/4X slot or PCIe x16 slot and that will determine which version of the card you should get because most video cards now come in both versions.\n\nFor benchmarks on the X800XL see Tomshardware, http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/28/don/page7.html\n\nand for the 6600GT see, http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/04/04/good_3d_performance_at_a_middling_price/page29.html\n\nfor Cnet's review of the X800XL see, http://reviews.cnet.com/ATI_Radeon_X800_XL_PCIE_256MB/4505-8902_7-31320650.html?tag=tpr
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The first thing you'll want to identify is if you have an AGP slot or PCI Express. Most newer computers have PCI Express, but I'm still rocking an AGP slot. I assume you have that out of the way.\n\nNow, when looking for a graphics card the numbers tell much of the story, but it's not always true to form. For example, depending on the quality of a graphic chip or the memory used, you might get varying results.\n\nThere's also varying degrees of "high level" 3D. Odds are you are looking at specific game or two? You can check the game's recommended graphics card levels on the box or website. They will give you two levels "required" and "recommended." Required is the bare minimum. You'll want more than that. Recommended is what they say is best. A good rule of thumb for PC games is to find the recommended specs, and then boost up your power a level or two. This way you won't be lagging behind completely 1 one year. But PC games the way they are now, 2 years is about as long as you'll ever get at "high level."\n\nMemory is highly important, one of the key features of a graphics card. I'd recommend a minimum of 256mb at this point.\n\nNow I could talk specs with you all day, but your main concern here has to be price. Graphics cards that can play any modern game on the shelf today range from $100 to well over $700. What is the difference? Well that $700 is going to be BRAND NEW and have every new piece of technology out there. The $100 card, while serviceable, probably is on it's dying breath and will need to be upgraded to play next years games. The question is, are you going to want to play a specific game now? Are you looking to the future? And how much are you willing to pay for future proofing?\n\nAnother item to consider is that a new graphics technology, DirectX 10 is JUST coming out. If the future if your concern, you'll want a card that features this technology.\n\nIn short: the number one thing you want to look for is a good price to performance ratio. You can do this by researching reviews and all the technical numbers that these kind folks will feed you. A good sweet spot for graphics cards is typically $200-300. More than that and you're paying to be an early adopter. Less than that and you're buying an already outdated card.\n\nI've avoided using specific numbers, due to the fact that "high level" changes every 6 months. And it varies greatly depending on what game you are wishing to play. World of Warcraft is an entirely different beast than F.E.A.R.\n\nI've linked a great source for you to check graphics card reviews. Often times you can find the card you are looking for and see how it stacks up to other cards of similar price and features.
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Go with the GeForce 7800.  I never buy the latest greatest product as it's usually too expensive.
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the X1650 is one of the latest cards around and is Vista safe.\nit is *NOT*, though, a fast card; a 9800(XT) will outrun it most common benchmarks.\nit will only run (properly) on a newer motherboard, either with PCI-E or AGP8; you will have trouble getting the card to run properly on any older motherboard only supporting AGP4.\nthus, if you have one of those, the Nv5200 (or a 2nd hand 9800XT) should be your preferred choice. none of those will run Vista to its fullest, though
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Well u can get a Geforce 5200FX 128MB or 256MB to get very gud performance. Check out nvidia website for more details
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I wouldn't recomend PCI port for high end gaming like oblivion.  Try using an AGP port if you have one, or a PCI-express, if not then you should try an nvidia card, maybe the 256mb geforce 6200, it runs on PCI, but you're gonna sacrifice a lot of graphics.
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try this one..\nXFX GeForce 6600GT 256 MB PCI-E SLI Ready Graphics Card
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Well sorry to say this but the 7800 GTX processor from nvidia isn't te best one. It was untill ATI released the new radeon 1900 processor. It's aprox 10% faster. But things aren't going to stop here. nVidia already announced the new 7900 GTX processor (to beat what ati has conquered :)). Tehnically speaking, there is no best video card looking at how computers delevop. If today this is the best one, tommorow voila, something better appears. \nAnd if you want a link with a card based on Radeon 1900 processor, well you could try it here:
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With the 64 bit proccessor the motherboard you have choosen willo be problemmatic with the chip set, try going a little beter. With the Graphics Card try staying away from NVIDIA use Rage graphics cards there much better
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The new Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 is a great video card for games but cost around 700 bucks
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If you have a GeForce FX5500, then chances are you have an AGP slot.  Unfortunately, your choices are pretty limited as Nvidia and ATI are moving on to PCI-Express x16 slots for their high-end card.\n\nThe choices are the following then:\nHigher Geforce 5xxx, Radeon 9xxx, Geforce 6xxx.\n\nUnless they release more in AGP format, your best selection would be either a Geforce 6600GT or 6800.  These cards are much better than the ATI 9xxx series and even the X-series (X300, X600, maybe X700) which aren't available in AGP format.\n\nThe 6600GT and 6800 perform roughly the same but finding a 6800 in AGP may be hard to find.  Since 6600GT AGP cards are more abundant, this may be the way to go.\n\nThe upside to all of this is, you won't have to spend all of your $300 as the 6600GT AGP cards go for about $140 at online sites and are a dramatic improvement over the FX5500.