Re: Meanwhile, in the real world...

Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> 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 :)
Okay, you're confusing me. Was NCIX selling a 7600GT or a 6600GT for
$120 for haloween?
>
> That price'd probably be OK if the card were new, but I think you'll
> have to go lower. Harddrives are like that; I honestly don't see the
> point of buying drives smaller than 400gb (at least for me) since I
> know I'll use it, and a 400gb drive is 180$! I used to buy 40gb
> drives for that 4 years ago :o
Well my new card came in the mail today, I wasn't expecting it until
next week. According to a Doom3 benchmark I did, the 7600GT is almost
twice as fast as my 6600GT. I can't see going any lower than $60 for
selling my 6600GT, and I'll include the games it came with: Splinter
Cell: Chaos Theory, and Price of Persia: Warrior Within.

Reid
Received on Sat Nov 4 04:35:17 2006