Dude the 6600 series cards are PCI-EXPRESS not PCI, completely DIFFERENT slots that you are thinking of...not only that, but it is using completely different memory, GDDR3 opposed to GDDR2, so that gives it another leg up...on top of THAT, it does indeed have more pipelines like sniper pointed out.I am afraid it sucks because it is a PCI card. And it looks really weak, I mean 300MHZ core and 550 Memory, neah, I don't think it is better than the 5900XT. So what do you guys recommend?
It's WAY more powerful and doesn't have any weaknessesso does that make it better than 5900XT even with the weaknesses it has?
actually, PCI-E 16x has not got 2x the bandwith as AGP 8x, in fact I think it's moreNubius said:When talking about it's core and memory speed, like I said, PCI-E is 16x unlike AGP which is 8x so there's double bandwidth right there......
Well I didn't mean literally exactly double the bandwidth, I just meant, at a minimum, there's double the bandwidth without even considering the new architectures of the cards, motherboards, processors, etc... but good job on clarifying that apokactually, PCI-E 16x has not got 2x the bandwith as AGP 8x, in fact I think it's more
16x is twice the number of 8x,
Are you sure? I don't think you can just say 1x = 1gb/sec because the high end cards do like 35gb/sec data transfer...I'm just curious as I'm really not sure, so I'm not saying your info is wrong, more along the lines of exactly how accurate it isPCI-E 1x is 1GB/S transfer speed, although I'm not sure what AGP 8x is