MxO - geforce fx5900???

[junglist_soldier]

basically i aint got alot of cash to spend bout 130-140 pounds. I want to play Matrix online and i am fed up with my current geforce 4 mmx 440 128mb card. Is the fx5900 a good card its within my cash range and ive read good reviews from it. Wot other better cards r there out there for this price range????? Wot is the best thing i can buy to make my game runs quicker???? Also wot is the difference between PCI-EX and AGP ive seen som very cheap 256mb pci cards about??

 

[Praetor]

basically I aint got alot of cash to spend bout 130-140 pounds. I want to play Matrix online and I am fed up with my current geforce 4 mmx 440 128mb card. Is the fx5900 a good card its within my cash range and ive read good reviews from it.

1. You can get a 6600GT for that price.
2. The Matrix online isnt exactly a backbbreaking game

Also wot is the difference between PCI-EX and AGP

Pretty much everything.

ive seen som very cheap 256mb pci cards about??

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[junglist_soldier]

so u reck0on i shud get the 6600. it mite not b a backbreaking game but for my gpu it is trust me. If theres a big difference in the pci-ex and agp then y are the pci and agp priced around the same. Is pci better???

 

[maverick77_uk]

PCI-express is the new format - it has a physically different connector than AGP. Your motherboard will prob be an AGP motherboard as you have a Geforce 4 MX. Therefore you physically cannot use a PCI-express card.

PCI-express can transfer data to and from the card faster than AGP can - however, only if the videocard and computer can keep up, which currently they can't! >;o) Therfore, in the future, PCI-express will be better as the cards get faster, and AGP will become obsolete. However, currently, you are dictated what type of card you buy by the physical slot on your motherboard.

Be very careful you don't get PCI-express confused with PCI. Original video cards used the PCI interface - probably those cheap 256MB cards you've seen. These are slow. PCI is again a completely different slot to PCI-express - they just have a similar name! PCI has basically been obsolete for the use of videocards for a while now, although slow GPU's of each generation are released for PCI for people with ancient computers (like me!), although PCI is still used for many other cards like modems, sound cards etc. These will soon be replaced with PCI-express X1 slots (the video card PCI-express is usually a x16 slot, as opposed to the AGP x8).

See ya.

 

[junglist_soldier]

ok thx m8 thats cleared it up for me. Yes my motherboard is agp, so i gota look for a agp gpu, shud i get the 6600 geforce?????

 

[Rambo]

shud i get the 6600 geforce?????

If I were you, I would get it.

 

[mgoldb2]

ok thx m8 thats cleared it up for me. Yes my motherboard is agp, so i gota look for a agp gpu, shud i get the 6600 geforce?????

geforce 6600 GT is a good card to go with for your budget. Make sure you get a GT not just a regular 6600 there a big difference between the two.

 

[Cromewell]

AFAIK the 6600 doesn't come in AGP only the 6600GT

 

[mgoldb2]

AFAIK the 6600 doesn't come in AGP only the 6600GT

Well in that case he definally dont want to get a 6600 none gt

 

[Praetor]

which currently they can't! >;o) Therfore, in the future, PCI-express will be better as the cards get faster, and AGP will become obsolete

Agreed although by the time that happens your PCIe setup will be obsolete as well

so I gota look for a agp gpu, shud I get the 6600 geforce?????

Yeah i forgot the currency involved, you can easily fit a 6600GT in there

AFAIK the 6600 doesn't come in AGP only the 6600GT

nVidia has been working on it for some time http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20076

 

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[junglist_soldier]

ok thx for the help every1
Ye ill get the geforce 6600GT then
Another question tho, how com there are so many versions of the same graphics card. They are all made by different brands and have different specs, y cant there just b one 6600GT its so confusing.

 

[Praetor]

y cant there just b one 6600GT its so confusing.

1. Cuz nobody wants just one (why do you think so many people complain about microsoft?)
2. Overpricing

 

[junglist_soldier]

ah rite cheers m8 i understand now. So wots the best make to get ???

 

[mgoldb2]

ah rite cheers m8 i understand now. So wots the best make to get ???

Truthfully you should just go with the cheapest brand. To my knowledge almost all geforce 6600GT are basically the same. I think I heard MSI was having a little trouble with the heat sink(someone correct me if I wrong on this) other then that I have not heard anything bad about any company.

 

[junglist_soldier]

ok then ill just get wotever one that seams the most reasonable. Hows this
INNO3D Geforce 6600 GT 128MB DDR3 AGP 8x Display Card - 130 pound off ebay