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[Oct 21, 2005, 10:21 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The backlog of movies I would like to check out in the theaters keeps growing, and at this point the only thing knocking anything off the list is flicks that close. A couple more are coming out today, and I think I am going to be unable to resist pushing the Doom movie to the top of the list. I don't know that this means I will get out to see it, but I am quite curious about it, and I think I'll have regrets if it were to close before I got the chance to check it out.

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Re: OT: Video card upgrade (me too!)

Oct 22, 2005, 12:06

Zathrus

Benchmarks looked signficant between 6600 and 6800 models to me from these two links: Depends on the game... there was significant difference in Chronicles of Riddick and Pacific Fighters, but not much in HL2. Some difference in D3. Guess it all depends on which games you're going to play. Wish they included the 6600GT on the 2004 benchmarks -- they had a much better selection of games. Ahha -- here we go: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041119/index.html That has both the 6600GT and 6800. Take a look at that too. Ultimately it's up to you -- just remember that the 6800 is about 30% more than the 6600GT... of course, that's only ~$40, but hey -- that's some nice dinners out or a new game! Edit: Batman: Speed and performance?! Well sure... but my point is that the improvements wll come from the newer parts, not some magic in PCI Express or SATA. Sure, they both boast higher I/O rats than AGP/Parallel ATA, but that's not what's making the difference. A video card on both AGP and PCI-Express performs virtually identically. Ditto for a HD that's identical between SATA and PATA. This comment was edited on Oct 22, 12:09.

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Comment [quote="Zathrus"Oct 22, 2005, 12:06]q[Benchmarks looked signficant between 6600 and 6800 models to me from these two links:]q Depends on the game... there was significant difference in Chronicles of Riddick and Pacific Fighters, but not much in HL2. Some difference in D3. Guess it all depends on which games you're going to play. Wish they included the 6600GT on the 2004 benchmarks -- they had a much better selection of games. Ahha -- here we go: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041119/index.html That has both the 6600GT and 6800. Take a look at that too. Ultimately it's up to you -- just remember that the 6800 is about 30% more than the 6600GT... of course, that's only ~$40, but hey -- that's some nice dinners out or a new game! Edit: Batman: q[Speed and performance?!]q Well sure... but my point is that the improvements wll come from the newer parts, not some magic in PCI Express or SATA. Sure, they both boast higher I/O rats than AGP/Parallel ATA, but that's not what's making the difference. A video card on both AGP and PCI-Express performs virtually identically. Ditto for a HD that's identical between SATA and PATA. [/quote]

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