My old (well not that old) Geforce 4 MX440 need an update... I love it and I think the MX440 is sexy even when I can't play CS1.6 fine, but I love it. But it's time to get a replacement, so I can do my all days 3D work and play when I get so so borred.
I only accept NVIDIA nothing else! I use linux and the ATi support for Linux driver just sucks. Also, now ATi got a partership or somethng like that with Microsoft (xbox 360), so I am not buying ATi for a long long long time (yes I hate Gates so much).
So I need a car that can do these next things:
- Last for athleast a year, or maybe two
- A max budget of 230$ - So I think everything goes down to the 6600GT series.
- nVidia ONLY
- That can play my favs game: doom 3, painkiller, unreal tournament... and I'd like if it could play the next generation game in low or medium qualy
- I don't care if it's noisy in stock, because I'm changing the stock fan to a water cooling block.
I did a litle research on newegg and I get everything to these 4 6600gts:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130214 - Evga
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814127147 - MSI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814143026 - BFG
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122208 - Leadtek
My thoughts: I like very much the eVGA and the BFG, the only thing I don't like from the BFG is that it is OpenGL 1.5 but I sit down and think... is that a typo from newegg?!!?!??!. Leadtek is the same, and it's also clocked at higher speeds... adn the MSI mmm I don't maybe going with that one becuz my new motherboard is a MSI ?
If the OpenGL on the BFG is an typo error, I am probabling going with that one because I want this vga to least atleast 1.5 years... and the Lifetime is a plus because when I'm done with this I'll probably give it to my brother.
What are your thoughts about these 4 video cards?
-Simon
I only accept NVIDIA nothing else! I use linux and the ATi support for Linux driver just sucks. Also, now ATi got a partership or somethng like that with Microsoft (xbox 360), so I am not buying ATi for a long long long time (yes I hate Gates so much).
So I need a car that can do these next things:
- Last for athleast a year, or maybe two
- A max budget of 230$ - So I think everything goes down to the 6600GT series.
- nVidia ONLY
- That can play my favs game: doom 3, painkiller, unreal tournament... and I'd like if it could play the next generation game in low or medium qualy
- I don't care if it's noisy in stock, because I'm changing the stock fan to a water cooling block.
I did a litle research on newegg and I get everything to these 4 6600gts:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130214 - Evga
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814127147 - MSI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814143026 - BFG
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122208 - Leadtek
My thoughts: I like very much the eVGA and the BFG, the only thing I don't like from the BFG is that it is OpenGL 1.5 but I sit down and think... is that a typo from newegg?!!?!??!. Leadtek is the same, and it's also clocked at higher speeds... adn the MSI mmm I don't maybe going with that one becuz my new motherboard is a MSI ?
If the OpenGL on the BFG is an typo error, I am probabling going with that one because I want this vga to least atleast 1.5 years... and the Lifetime is a plus because when I'm done with this I'll probably give it to my brother.
What are your thoughts about these 4 video cards?
-Simon