trying to find a video card....

[silence]

EDIT::
ok so here's the new plan:: WHAT VIDEO CARD DO YOU GUYS RECOMMEND?? (keep it under $250 BEFORE TAX)



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ok so im having trouble finding this card FOR SALE - everywhere i've found so far says "out of stock" etc...

it's the GeForce 6600GT SLI video card from "Gigibyte Technology" <- gigbyte technology is what the box / card say

it's aprx 2yrs old now but damn - i should still be able to find out :mad::mad::mad:


any help would be GREATLY appreciated


p.s. if possible i'd prefer picking it up somewhere in the GTA rather than ordering it online (and i dont use ebay or paypal so those rnt an option)

thx :)

[Mike-KT]

I'm hoping the situation is that you already have one and want to SLI it

Anything else is unacceptable

[silence]

u would be very much correct KT

i picked up my buddied 6600 card just to find out his was MSI and cant be used with my Gigbyte Technology card =(
stupid cards have to be the same model from the same vendor... why do vendors have to clock their cards differntly? - THEY SHOULD BE SHOT!

[gOOCH]

just get a new card

[silence]

gOOCH im not made of money like u lol

any how update to the info, i grabbed the box a minute ago (for my current one)

gigabyte technology
NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT
NX66T Series Graphics Accelerator
PCI-E
High-Speed GDDR3 128 bit Memory Bus

they call it the "GV-NX66T" <- im pretty sure that is just the product code for the manufacturer (correct me if im wrong o.O)

thx guys

[serial j]

Ebay is probably the only place you'll find a card that age, but unless it's dirt cheap you'd be better off saving money for a new decent card.

[silence]

ya that's my conclusion aswell... i cant find this card period, well that's a lie.. i found it on the sketchiest site i've ever seen for $120 refurbished. haha i aint touching that with a 10 foot pole =/
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ok so as the 1st post has been changed to say - NEW PLAN - what card should i get? (under $250 BEFORE TAX)

recommendations plz =)

[gOOCH]

no, its just not worth it, to spend 120 on that

[silence]

i alrdy said im not and im LOOKING FOR A NEW CARD


chill gooch, i know it IS NOT worth spending $120 for a card that old especially if it's refurbished


EDIT::

im thinking of this card: it seams decent for the price range and it's FAR better than my current card

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3244224

[Crayola]

spend the extra like, 20-30 bucks and get an 8800

[ORION]

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11610BD2984&vpn=320-P2-N811-AR&manufacture=EVGA
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=10720BD8568&vpn=BFGR88512GTOCEC&manufacture=BFG
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=10720BD9819&vpn=BFGR88320GTSOC2EI&manufacture=BFG

Push Extra 20$, Receive 3x the performance.

[gOOCH]

IM FUCKING CHILLING DONT FUCKING TAZ ME
get an 8800 gt

[ORION]

NCIX and Directcan dont have them in stock yet... soon hopefully.

[Mike-KT]

Agreed.

Nvidia made the 8800gt just for you, why would you insult them by not buying it?

[Wesley Crusher]

huh

You can SLI different brand nVidia cards as long as they're the same GPU and RAM. They removed that lockout a long time ago.

$140 gets you a used 7900 GTO (aka GTX in disguise)

[silence]

ok well the 2 i currently have =

the Geforce specified above and a MSI version that has a 400MHz GPU and i believe 256 or 512MB RAM... it wont work still mine is 500MHz GPU and 128MB RAM


Hunting for a new 1 continues...

[ORION]

400MHZ is the GPU Clock speed, which shouldn't be the issue, the issue is whether or not they show up as the same series GPU (r70 something ?) and both 128, both 256 or both 512 etc etc

[Rusty Bridges]

+1 for 8800 GT

[silence]

400MHZ is the GPU Clock speed, which shouldn't be the issue, the issue is whether or not they show up as the same series GPU (r70 something ?) and both 128, both 256 or both 512 etc etc

mine is a 128
his is a 256

for that reason alone it's no dice =(


btw i'll look into this 8800GT u guys are speaking of, see how much it costs etc.

i might actually end up going through NCIX especially if they have an AMD X2 4400+ for sale @ a good price

edit:: ya, NCIX is priced on par with the last price i saw on tiger direct.. the differnce is NCIX still carries the x2 4400+ series CPU's lol

[WiseGuy]

BFG OC2 8800GTS 320 ftw

[Rusty Bridges]

The 8800 GT is Faster then the 8800 GTS 320

[ORION]

If your calling speed into question, it's technically faster then the 320 and the 640. The amount of memory does not significantly affect the performance of a graphics card.
The more memory a card has, the less significantly your performance will decrease at higher resolutions.
In lamens terms, More Megabytes, More Pixels.

What it really comes down to is the overall speed.
Core Freq
Mem Freq
Mem Bandwidth
Shaders
Pipelines

8800GT outperforms 8800GTS on all but mem bandwidth, and has an overall performance curve that emulates the 8800GTX (with a slight drop)