Reid Towsley wrote:
> That's a little depressing, as I currently have a XFX 7600GT (with a
> slight factory overclock) coming in the mail from eBay right now that
> came in at $150 including shipping. Here I am thinking I got a great
> deal, then I read this...Anyway, once my new card arrives and I make it
> work my old one will be for sale. It's a Leadtek A6600GT TDH 128MB AGP
> card, and includes VGA, DVI, and component video outputs. Is $80 too
> much to ask?
At least in BFG (which are slightly overclocked), the 6600GT vs. the
6800 is 2/3rds of the fill rate. EG: My 6800 has 22.4 GB/s memory
bandwidth and 438 million vertices/s, while the BFG 6600GT has 16.8 GB/s
memory bandwidth and 393 million vertices/s.
The 6600 has a higher clock (which is why it's able to do that many
vertices/s), but fewer pipes to do it in (leading to a lower general
fill rate). NCIX.com also has a 6600 with 512mb of RAM on sale for 120$
this week :)
That price'd probably be OK if the card were new, but I think you'll
have to go lower. Harddrives are like that; I honestly don't see the
point of buying drives smaller than 400gb (at least for me) since I know
I'll use it, and a 400gb drive is 180$! I used to buy 40gb drives for
that 4 years ago :o
I don't know if the 400gb drives use the fancy new perpendicular
recording, like the new 2.5" 200gb drives do. It might solve my MythTV
storage situation if they come out with 800gb drives :)
Received on Sat Nov 4 00:51:45 2006
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