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Old December 25th, 2004, 12:42 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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GeForce versus Radeon

Hey all, I was wondering what your opinions were and why between GeForce and Radeon, I hear great things about both and am in the market for new one. Any suggestions on models would help greatly, I am look for something less than $250/300 or south of that and that can pull out great for high performance games.
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Old December 25th, 2004, 12:45 AM     #2 (permalink)
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So, it's another one of these.
Go for the 6600GT, there's no doubt that that is the best card under 250 bucks.

The FX series sucked, but the new 6 series is great, and own's ATI's current X series.

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Post the rest of your specs.

This is a good card:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...122-206&depa=0

Leadtek is a great manufacturer.
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Ya i agree with NWO there get a 6600GT , or a 6800 but i would get 6600GT
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128<256

Even though its 128mb instead of 256mb?
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Even though its 128mb instead of 256mb?

yeap, because there is still no game that fully takes advantage of the extra RAM, therefore 128MB will do fine.
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If anyone knows anything about vid cards, i consider nwo75200 as a expert in my opinion.
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Awesome.

Ok. Thank you very much, that will be a great help. I know this is mainly for graphics card discussions, but I had a quick question about ram. What is a good amount? I'm seeing that 512 isn't great in a lot of cases, should i consider 768mb? or 1gb? or even 2 gb?
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1Gb is enough for GAming, wut are the specs of ur system
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Ok. Thank you very much, that will be a great help. I know this is mainly for graphics card discussions, but I had a quick question about ram. What is a good amount? I'm seeing that 512 isn't great in a lot of cases, should i consider 768mb? or 1gb? or even 2 gb?

you're dead on; 512MB isn't sufficient for today's high end gaming, 768MB is kinda a waste with today's prices of 512MB sticks, and it's either 512MB or 1 gig. 1 gig is sufficient, 2 gig is overkill
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Specs.

Soon to be:

-P4 530 w/ HT 3.0 GHz 1mb Cache
-Intel 915 Chipset
-GeForce 6600 GT
-1 GB Ram

Current:

-P4 2.8 GHz
-Radeon 9200
-512 Ram

--You be wondering why I am upgrading with what I have already, because I made the mistake of buying an HP lol, so now I'm going to build my own, I have little exp with crafting, so I might spring for an alienware, idk.
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