On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:44:46 GMT, "tod"
wrote:

I'm looking to replace my ATI 9600 Pro (AGP) with something a little newer.
I was going to go ATI X700 Pro, but I would like to know
if there would be any advantages to getting a NVIDIA 6600GT?
I play mostly RTS and a few RPG games, no first person shooters.



I was just wondering the same thing. I'm on a strict budget,
and trying to build myself a new Athlon64 Socket 939 system. I'm
having to buy a piece, or two of hardware once a month. So I'm trying
to get the best deal possible.
Before deciding to build up a new A64 PC, I had opted to
upgrade my Athlon XP 3000+ system with an extra 512MB RAM (total 1
GB), and a new 6600GT AGP. For what I spent, I should have stuck with
my GF4 Ti4400 for now, and put that money towards the A64 build.
However, the 6600GT was a nice boost, even though it is bound by the
CPU.
I was checking Newegg out, and seen that the X700Pro was
priced $25.00 less than the 6600GT PCI-E. I went looking for
benchmarks, and seen that the X700Pro scores a little less than the
6600GT in most games. Except in the case of HL2, where it scored about
the same, or even a little more. However Doom3 favored the 6600GT
quite a bit.
Anywho, it will be around Christmas, or even after before I'm
ready to purchase a card, so I'm gona wait, and see what comes out.
Hopefully Nvidia's 7xxx series mid-range cards will come out maybe,
and cause the prices of the 6600GT, and 6800 to drop even more.
You said you where wanting to upgrade a Radeon 9600 Pro AGP
with a 6600GT, or X700 Pro. As far as I know, the X700 Pro comes in
PCI-E only. Only one of the Nvidia 6xxx, or a faster Radeon 9xxx would
be an upgrade for you, unless you are upgrading to a PCI-E system as
well.