the 6800 stock. You have a chance to unlock the extra 4 pipelines and 1 vertex shaders to make it like a 6800 GT kinda architecture. You can overclock it as well. Cooling will help in this process. The 6600 GT would be as good if you didn't want to overclock at all. Their clock helps. but with super-high Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering, the 6800nu would kill the 6600 GT. Get the 6800 nu and unlock pipes and vertex shader and OC it. You can get a much better result this way in FPS because of the 16 pipelines (if unlocked) and 6 vertex shaders (if the extra one is unlocked) and when OCed. good luck!!! pz!
6800 NU all the way, more pipes with the possibility to open even more, and 256-bit memory, double the 6600 GTs 128-bit memory interface.
Deffinatley the 6800nu (avoid the le though). It's a good overclocker even if you can't get it unlokced (and you should be able to get something unlocked). Even at stock it's still got 4 more ps and 1 more vs than the 6600.
The 6800 is the best of two you mentioned. The 256bit interface plays a major role in this. So go out and buy the 6800 or if you can get another $100 and buy the 6800gt and be in heaven.
I had the same question and went with the EVGA 6800 from newegg for $244 and I love it. The 4 extra pipes and the shader all unlocked and overclocking has went very well, I am extremely happy with the way I went.
the 6600GT is good at lower rez, with low AA and AF, but once you get to higher resolutions with high AA/AF the 6800nu leaves the 6600GT in the dust due to its 256 mem bus and 4 extra pixel pipes so definately go for the 6800nu. it will be alot more future proof ...
the 256 i'm talking about is the memory bus speed. its 256 bit vs the 128 bit of the 6600GT. im not sure if the 6600GT comes with 256mb's of ram or not, but i dont think it does. you can get a 6800 for around 250.00 US. not sure what a 6600GT costs, but even if its 20.00 more the 6800 is still a way better buy ! trust me
LOL chungdy who is in that pic?? You must love your 6600 GT to say it beats a 6800nu, but it doesn't. I have some 3DMark01 benchmark comparisons from some site (couldn't find any FPS comparisons, sorry ) http://www.xoxideforums.com/archive/topic/50008-1.html http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1530836&enterthread=y 6600GT is better when less detail is enabled because of it's fast GPU architecture, but when it comes to requiring high memory bandwidthm it will fall under the 6800nu. The 6800nu would be best if your an enthusiast gamer. If I do manage to find a graph of FPS difference I'll post it up unless someone else does it first. good luck pz
6600GT only has 128bit memory bus it has a 256bit core bus becoz the 6600GT only has a 128bit memory bus it lacks in the multitexture department where the 6800 series totally kills it becoz of thier 256bit memory bus
6600GT or 6800nu If u don't intend to play games at very high res. with high aa,af then a 6600GT will suffice....but if u do like to crank up the res. with high aa,af the 6600GT will fall badly behind the 6800nu
The 6600GT works better during normal gaming (no AA/AF) but when comes to full eyecandy its a diffence story(If you have a good cpu like AMD64)..... BTW, if you wanted a good high-range gfx cards, go with ATi's X800 series..... it's abit expensive compare to nvidia's but worth the money IMO
im not siding with neither ATi or Nvidia..... im only suggesting the best product in value and performance..... but the fact is that ATi perform better than Nvidia and lesser problem (compare ATi with Nvidia forums in Guru3D)
ok, i bought the 6800, and unlocked the pipes, and vertex shader like some people suggested. I get no artifacts, so i assume they work fine. I ran 3dmark03 and only got a score of 5600, is that normal?
