the 9600 XT is a descent value card, however it does not compare to the 6600 GT. the 9600 XT is a 4 pipeline card, and the 6600 GT is an 8 pipeline card.Jayare012 said:9600XT ~85$
From the reviews I have read this thing is only a little less powerful than the 6600gt. Much better than the 6600LE made by Nvidia for about the same price. Plays most newer games on medium, and sometimes hi. Im sure after a little tuning you can have great gaming performance out of this.
CrAzY_GaMeR_07 said:x800
core -392
mem - 700
pipelines - 12
6600gt
core -500
mem - 1000
pipelines - 8
i still sugest the 6600gt
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Jayare012 said:Video Cards
9600XT ~85$
From the reviews I have read this thing is only a little less powerful than the 6600gt. Much better than the 6600LE made by Nvidia for about the same price. Plays most newer games on medium, and sometimes hi. Im sure after a little tuning you can have great gaming performance out of this.9600xt is very old card and i don't think that it will beat 6600LE
kahlos said:Hey your all saying the X800 Series of cards are bad. NO!! Well at least not for bang for buck. You get a X800GTO2 for £100 ($180) and OC and unlock to get beyond X850XTPE speeds. True they don't support pixel shader 3.0 but theres not a h.ell of a difference between 2.0b and 3. I have a X800GTO2 my self and it's obviously OC'ed and unlocked and it runs everything at full detail perfectly (well except F.E.A.R. but theres no way something of that price range would do that kind of power ). Oh and with the bottlenecking thats mainly only on stratigy games where lots of a.i. scripts and simple things are going on at once. Something like Rome Total War. With crossfire you can run any series of card with another one in the same series as long as one of them is a crossfire master card. So a X800 with a X850 crossfire master card would run fine. I would say that crossfire and SLI are about equal.