is 6600TD fine instead of 6600GT???????

[chow choppe]

Hi all

 

Nobody replies to older posts so i have to put it here

I wanted to buy a 6600GT pci express card but now its not available.

Now ASUS 6600TD is available..

I have x2 4200 dual processor

Shud i go for this card or is there a lot of difference between 6600GT and 6600TD.Please suggest.

 

Also i am getting a card 6600Gt from LEADTEk...i have no idea how good there cards are.

 

What decision shud i make

 

thanks

Haneet

[AJLynn]

The GT is much faster. Just look at the specs - the GT has a faster core clock.

 

And, you don't have to post multiple times - we do read the old threads with new posts, but sometimes we're busy or away from the computer.

[chow choppe]

where can i find more information about this...will it make a lot of difference to me while working....

 

What about leadtek card i mentioned.

please help

 

And sorry for posting it here as a new thread but i was worried becuase i have already ordered and have very less time for cancellation so hoping for as many replies a spossible

[Greg Hess]

Do you have evga? They have both a lifetime warranty and a stepup program.

[chow choppe]

whats evga?

 

sorry m8 i am not very savvy about these things

[Greg Hess]

evga is the name of a company that makes nvidia cards.

 

When in doubt, google!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=evga

http://www.evga.com

[chow choppe]

Thanks Greg

So u mean evga is also a good company

 

thanks

[jonel]

I doubt that 3dsmax can gain much from just a bit higher clock for same GPU chip/faster vRAM. It's not using that much from a VGA, like shaders and stuff, so there shouldn't be much difference. You could see a bit improvement with transparency and textures..

I had 6600GT, on agp board, switched to PCI-x, with 6600 and haven't noticed any improvement nor lower perfrormance

Btw, dualcore cpu will work 100% in viewport much less than one can expect, only with oGL (not in every case), but with directX - 50% (just one core is 'working')

[AJLynn]

If you're using a hardware-accelerated shading mode such as OpenGL or Direct3D (and you should be using one of these), the clock speed on the video card is important. There's a big difference there between the TD and the GT, and the price difference isn't that much. And extra $30 or $40 gets you a 500MHz GPU instead of 300MHz - this is one of the better price/performance moves you can make. It's an easy call.

[jonel]

ok, I'll run some test with ati x1600xt, with different clocks and we'll see, what i've said, can be wrong since that upgrade was about 18 months ago

[jonel]

here it is, FPS (higher is better )

Ati x1600XT silent, opteron 170@2700MHz

[AJLynn]

That's what I'm on about - compare the highest numbers (DirectX with fast clock) to second highest (DirectX with slow clock) and you've got at least $40 worth of improvement.

[jonel]

yup, numbers speak for themselves, thanks for 'provoking' me to run some test

now, it would be nice if someone can explain what these stuff means (in practical terms):

1. blitting

2. dualplanes

3. rasterize

I'll see if I can get some other cards (and free time) to make the test more interesting, a lot of people on various forums often ask about 'what VGA should I buy for 3dsmax' but very few popular benchmark sites do this particular test (mostly do cinebench shading and specviewperf). Only problem here in Belgrade is that there is impossible to find Quadro's and FireGL's :S

[Greg Hess]

jonel,

 

Those are the standard 3dsmax benchmark scenes.

[chow choppe]

Thanks everyone

 

though most of the technical stuff was not understood by me but still now i can buy 6600 GT

 

thanks