   I got a Geforce 6600GT :D
  I must say wow, I was sceptical at first as all my games except serious sam 2 worked just fine on my geforce 4 mx 440, but now actually being able to see reflections in the water in half life 2, running doom 3 at 1024x768 resolution, and pushing unreal 2k4 to max settings without any lag, I gotta say, I'm quite impressed with this card.So to those who are thinking of upgrading from geforce 4 series to 6, DO IT, it's well worth it.Now I'm off to play some Serious Sam 2/infomercial[Edited by - eedok on January 5, 2006 1:47:35 AM]
  You can see your reflection in HL2? That's one hell of a card, seeing as how the player model doesn't exist in the game.   ;  yeah the 6600 gt is a good card but doesn't match an x800 xl. i'm able to run unreal 2004 at 1600x 1200 at all max setting with 6x anti-aliasing and 16x af. i think the 6600 gt is about the equivilent of a 9800 pro, which is still quite good.   ;Quote:Original post by Jarrod1937yeah the 6600 gt is a good card but doesn't match an x800 xl. i'm able to run unreal 2004 at 1600x 1200 at all max setting with 6x anti-aliasing and 16x af. i think the 6600 gt is about the equivilent of a 9800 pro, which is still quite good.EEDOK runs linux mostly though. ATI still hasn't really gotten a decent linux driver out yet.Of course, you wouldn't know his situation without reading his other posts or knowing the guy :)   ;  yeah i didn't know he runs linux, thats one thing ati really sucks at. thier drivers, they're always too late at coming out with fixes and builds that run good on most os's. Nvidia however is great at this sort of thing so i guess i cna see why he went for an nvidia if he runs linux.   ;  pfft. My radeon 9600XT beats the crap outta any other card out there......Though it would be nice to have a 7800GTX 512mb.   ;  "Though it would be nice to have a 7800GTX 512mb."Yeah... that would be nice to me aswell. My friend just got a 7800 gt and its quite godly to say the least. Very nice and handles everything at max settings, although i myself would love to get my hands on the new quadro series based off of the 7800 gpu's with 512mb of vid ram, now that would be nice.   ;Quote:Original post by Jarrod1937yeah the 6600 gt is a good card but doesn't match an x800 xl. i'm able to run unreal 2004 at 1600x 1200 at all max setting with 6x anti-aliasing and 16x af. i think the 6600 gt is about the equivilent of a 9800 pro, which is still quite good.The 6600GT is closer to your x800 xl than a 9800 pro (I think it's closest to a x700 pro). It depends allot on the application your benchmarking. But according to This , on average the x800 xl is only about 14-25% faster than the 6600GT. But they only tested so many aplpications (hard to tell how many data points were used to create that chart). I can also easly find benchmarks where the x800 is twice as fast as the 6600GT. And your tolerance for low framerates may be much higher then eedoks. So maybe your fine with an average 30FPS at 1600x1200 6x AA, while he wont stand for less then 60FPS minium (thus the lower res).   ;  yes my tollerence is better i guess, the human eye only needs 24 frames per second in any application to create fluid animation (i think 24 is the standard for movie theaters too). ntsc standrad for all tv's are in the US  are 30 fps while pal i believe requires higher fps. However 30-60 there is a very small (if any difference) to the human eye, what increase however is the smoothness of the game but in my opinion that is not enough to make me lower how good the game looks everywhere else.Even though i do have a high tollerence for lower frame rates my card is an xl which does out perform the 6600 gt, along with that my card is overcloked quite a bit causing it to be even faster, my average fps in ut04 at 1600x 1200 with everything to max is about 60-70 fps.   ;  Just a quick butt-in,NTSC is 60hz, PAL is 50hz. This is why watching a TV in Europe is like watching a disco ball (for me anyways). I think you're right about game frame rates, I can take anything above 25fps, but with flashing lights (like in a CRT), you need at least 60 fps.   