Hey guys. I have a 7900gs (256MB) I sent back today RMA so I picked up an 8600gt (512MB) to use in the meantime. It seems like the 8600 is maybe a small step backwards in performance. Does anyone use a similar card and could tell me how it should perform? Thanks all!

I currently have an Athlon64 skt939 system, with GeForce 6200 TC card, Win XP Home SP2 which powers a 1024x768 TFT monitor. I'd like to upgrade the montior to a 22 inch Widescreen TFT, which runs resolution of 1680x1050. I can't see this resolution of 1680x1050. Will upgrading my GF 6200TC to say...

I have a Sony Vaio VGC-RA820G, must be approaching 4 years old; 3.2 mhz single-core old "dual-threaded" CPU; added a gig of RAM, changed vid cards to Nvidia 7600GS before upgrading to Vista; have since "upgraded" to XP after finally realizing Vista - not from lack of trying - doesn't work very...

Gonna get myself a 6600GT and would like some feedback on what you guys (and Gals) think is the best manufacturer from the list below (All pasted from 0verclockers.co.uk) Leadtek WinFast GeForce 6600 GT 128MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX-050-LT) AOpen GeForce 6600 GT 128MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI...

Wow, I was playing Battlefield 2 full version, when I suddenly smelled this really bad burn smell. Maybe the smell came from outside... but I decided to check my computer... and too my shock both harddisk fans were stopped ?! ( I left my computer on the whole night to download stuff with...

"Riley" wrote in message news:iB%ih.55$oo4.38@trndny09... Got upgrade my boys system because his old Radeon 9800 Pro is having overheating problems I believe (get black screen after 30 minutes of gaming but gaming continues on) even though the case is well...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10005391-64.html Intel has disclosed details on a chip that will compete directly with Nvidia and ATI and may take it into unchartered technological and market-segment waters. Larrabee will be a stand-alone chip, meaning it will be very different than the...

I have a 6600 GT (8 x AGP). I have two questions: 1) Do video editing software packages make use of the processing power of a graphics card like the 6600 GT? Or are the rendering facilities of a graphics card of no use to the 6600 GT? Said differently, can I expect a significant boost in...

Well, after buying the game (yes, with real money, not pirated! god that sucks after what I'm about to say), I have to say - DOOM 3 leaves a LOT to be desired. First off - graphically it is way ahead of it's time. My 3.2ghz / 5900XT rig runs decent at 640x480 with the goodies turned on (60fps +/-)...

Hi all, I looking for a new card (now i've got a Ti4280), and i'm a little lost about which Company card i should get. I always have an nvidia card and always works excellent to me (a lot of Gaming and TV-Out), i never had a serious problem with this ones. (luck? dont know) :) The point is that...

I have installed the demo version of Halo on my sys but I keep getting the error message " A problem occurred initializing direct3d. Hardware acceleration may be disabled, run DXDIAG". I ran dxdiag, acceleration is not disabled. The known issues in the read me file say that " NVIDIA Video Cards...

I have a : FX 5900 Ultra 256 mb P4 3.06 ghz XP1394 Gigabyte MB My AGP aperture was set to 64 I expanded that to 256 (neither helped) When I turn on all the option in Halo (1024x768) I am getting about 9 frames per second. I have to shut off most of the cool graphics to get any thing that is play...

Hi all, Had a rather irritating problem with my recent Video card upgrade and new driver installation. I hope some one can help. I an running a WinXP Pro SP2 (English) with a new Asus V9999 card and after d/l'ing the new 61.77 drivers (in English, not the international version), I installed them...

wrote: Hello, This is my first posting to this group. A friend of mine just bought a 6600gt MSI with VIVO for the purposes of capturing video from his Sony digital video camera using Virtual Dub. I used to do this with an old ti4800se with no problems and...

Yes, this WAS the case. But now Asus has launched the A8R-MVP. It has the Crossfire chipset, but now combined with the ULi M1575 southbridge!! Check it out he http://www.asus.com/products3.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=236&slname=ATI%20Radeon%C2%AE%20Xpress%20200%20CrossFire%E2%84%A2 This...

This has only cropped up in the last week. My drivers (ForceWare 84.21) are getting corrupted on rebooting somehow and as a result I can't run anything that uses Direct3D or OpenGL (2D stuff is fine). I get this on running the Direct3D tests in dxdiag: Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 8...

I realize this is somewhat off topic, but I didn't see any CRT monitor groups. So I used to have a Viewsonic. 4 years old, cost me about 600+ USD. It was beautiful and it took up a whole kitchen table. One day it goes pink on me. I guess the green burned out or something. Called viewsonic, they...

"Lars-Erik Østerud" .@. wrote in message news:NuKMd.1238$Mw3.664@amstwist00... Is there a comparison chart between Nvidia cards? My old 4200 card scores 1600 on 3dMark 03, and I see others get over 6000 with new 6800 cards, but what about the other cards in between? After all it's a...

Didn't they get all ballyhoo about that not to long ago? Anyone have any insights? Not you, Lenny. :)

Hi, I´ve this graphic card and two problems with it. Fisrt problem is the corruption of the textures in direct3d aplications, programs like fifa2003 and even 3dmark2003 fails after a few minutes. Then the textures seems with errors, like if the graphics had holes, but the programs don't hungs....