What Is 6600GT

Eddie Haskell · 02-11-2005, 06:30 AM

I don't want to hi jack this thread but when you say 6600GT, which card are you talking about and please be specific since there are about 30 of them

**Praetor** · 02-11-2005, 03:02 PM

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I don't want to hi jack this thread

Well then dont hijack the thread

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which card are you talking about and please be specific since there are about 30 of them

Unless we're discussing thermal capabilities, theres not much point specifying as they are all damn near the same

Eddie Haskell · 02-11-2005, 04:07 PM

I plan on building a computer soon and when I read the post I hijacked

it said AGP was better than PCI but when I went to look at the 6600GT there were at least 30 of them, some PCI, some AGP, some 500 Mhz, some,1000 Mhz, very confusing to say the least. Then there was the memory GDDR3 Vs DDR3???? I was looking at a Gigabyte socket 939 (GA-K8NS Ultra-939) MOBO with an AMD64 3500 "Winchester" CPU, which 6600GT would you suggest, I don't play alot of graphic intensive games... but I may in the future.

mgoldb2 · 02-13-2005, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Eddie Haskell

it said AGP was better than PCI but when I went to look at the 6600GT there were at least 30 of them, some PCI, some AGP,

Am pretty sure there no PCI 6600GT. You must of seen pci-e and agp. pci-e newer but both 6600GT will proberly perform the same. check your motherboard if it comes with agp get agp. if it comes with pci-e get pci-e.

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Originally Posted by Eddie Haskell

some 500 Mhz, some,1000 Mhz, very confusing to say the least.

I think you looking at different things. when you saw 500mhz you was looking at the core speed. when you saw 1000mhz you was looking at the ram speed.

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Originally Posted by Eddie Haskell

Then there was the memory GDDR3 Vs DDR3????

They all are GDDR3 just some people write DDR3.

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Originally Posted by Eddie Haskell

I was looking at a Gigabyte socket 939 (GA-K8NS Ultra-939) MOBO with an AMD64 3500 "Winchester" CPU, which 6600GT would you suggest, I don't play alot of graphic intensive games... but I may in the future.

I think that motherboard is agp so just find the cheapest agp geforce 6600 GT(proberly around $210). All geforce 6600GT about the same.

**Praetor** · 02-13-2005, 09:41 PM

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when I went to look at the 6600GT there were at least 30 of them, some PCI

None are PCI. The 6600GT comes in PCIe and AGP flavors

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some AGP, some 500 Mhz, some,1000 Mhz

Aye thats marketing for you. The 6600GT is clocked at 500MHz but due to the effects of DDR, its effectively 1GHz. Naturally marketers will market the bigger number

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Then there was the memory GDDR3 Vs DDR3????

The G on GDDR only specifies that its specifically made for video cards. This is because with GDDR2, the type of memory there was different from system DDR2.

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I was looking at a Gigabyte socket 939 (GA-K8NS Ultra-939) MOBO with an AMD64 3500 "Winchester" CPU, which 6600GT would you suggest, I don't play alot of graphic intensive games... but I may in the future.

Any AGP 6600GT

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when you saw 1000mhz you was looking at the ram speed.

Effective RAM speed

brotherstan1k4 · 02-16-2005, 04:09 AM

argg then if video ram is its own ram then wut is shared memory doesnt that come from ur ram ie if u have 512 ram and 64 shared vid u acually have 448 ram??? so wuts the diff isnt it just a simpler and faster way to identify vid card ram and system ram???

**Praetor** · 02-17-2005, 03:46 AM

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argg then if video ram is its own ram then wut is shared memory doesnt that come from ur ram ie if u have 512 ram and 64 shared vid u acually have 448 ram???

Shared memory is system memory set aside for video operations

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so wuts the diff isnt it just a simpler and faster way to identify vid card ram and system ram???

Uh ya. One is on your video card one isnt (i.e., if you're looking at the product then look at the card when you're talking to sales person, if you're talking about it, pay attention to the conversation and you wont get confused)

brotherstan1k4 · 02-18-2005, 03:16 PM

i kinda screwed up that post i meant like if ur liek a major comp geek and ur talking about ur new fangled system and rather than saying i have "512 ram and a 256 video card" is liek teh geek way of saying it liek "512 ddr and 256 ddr2". i no this will not help me a bit in teh real world but i just wanted to no plz no flamin

**Praetor** · 02-18-2005, 04:59 PM

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i kinda screwed up that post i meant like if ur liek a major comp geek and ur talking about ur new fangled system and rather than saying i have "512 ram and a 256 video card" is liek teh geek way of saying it liek "512 ddr and 256 ddr2". i no this will not help me a bit in teh real world but i just wanted to no plz no flamin

Fail English much? Ive got no idea what on earth you're trying to convey

Eddie Haskell · 03-06-2005, 10:13 PM

OK, after further review and reading more information than I knew I could, I have decide to get the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum MOBO which has PCI-e. Which specific 6600GT card would you folks recommend? I was looking at the Asus nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, I would like to have a tv input and know that there are seperate tuners available but my head is getting too full to deal with that right now so any help would be appreciated. I want to stay away from All in wonders since I have a Radeon 7500 AIW and I really don't care for it.

02-11-2005, 06:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
Eddie Haskell Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 90	I don't want to hi jack this thread but when you say 6600GT, which card are you talking about and please be specific since there are about 30 of them __________________ "Never Initiate...Retaliate!" Bobby Allison

02-11-2005, 04:07 PM	#3 (permalink)
Eddie Haskell Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 90	I plan on building a computer soon and when I read the post I hijacked it said AGP was better than PCI but when I went to look at the 6600GT there were at least 30 of them, some PCI, some AGP, some 500 Mhz, some,1000 Mhz, very confusing to say the least. Then there was the memory GDDR3 Vs DDR3???? I was looking at a Gigabyte socket 939 (GA-K8NS Ultra-939) MOBO with an AMD64 3500 "Winchester" CPU, which 6600GT would you suggest, I don't play alot of graphic intensive games... but I may in the future. __________________ "Never Initiate...Retaliate!" Bobby Allison

03-06-2005, 10:13 PM	#10 (permalink)
Eddie Haskell Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 90	OK, after further review and reading more information than I knew I could, I have decide to get the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum MOBO which has PCI-e. Which specific 6600GT card would you folks recommend? I was looking at the Asus nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, I would like to have a tv input and know that there are seperate tuners available but my head is getting too full to deal with that right now so any help would be appreciated. I want to stay away from All in wonders since I have a Radeon 7500 AIW and I really don't care for it. __________________ "Never Initiate...Retaliate!" Bobby Allison Last edited by Eddie Haskell; 03-06-2005 at 10:16 PM. Reason: Add stuff

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02-16-2005, 04:09 AM	#6 (permalink)
brotherstan1k4 Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 37	argg then if video ram is its own ram then wut is shared memory doesnt that come from ur ram ie if u have 512 ram and 64 shared vid u acually have 448 ram??? so wuts the diff isnt it just a simpler and faster way to identify vid card ram and system ram???

02-18-2005, 03:16 PM	#8 (permalink)
brotherstan1k4 Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 37	i kinda screwed up that post i meant like if ur liek a major comp geek and ur talking about ur new fangled system and rather than saying i have "512 ram and a 256 video card" is liek teh geek way of saying it liek "512 ddr and 256 ddr2". i no this will not help me a bit in teh real world but i just wanted to no plz no flamin