128 vs 256?

What kind of performance difference will I see if I get a 6600GT with
256 as opposed to 128?

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What kind of performance difference will I see if I get a 6600GT with
256 as opposed to 128?


Non worth noting.

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Depends on the game. Call of Duty 2 will benefit significantly from 256 MB
in DX9 mode.

At this point in time the price difference should be small, so you might as
well go for 256 MB. The extra RAM will also help the card's eBay resale
value when you upgrade.

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What kind of performance difference will I see if I get a 6600GT with
256 as opposed to 128?

On 3 Dec 2005 12:10:01 -0800, wrote:

What kind of performance difference will I see if I get a 6600GT with
256 as opposed to 128?

Without knowing what applications and graphics level you want to run,
it is impossible to say.
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Guy at Game store today told me that on the lesser cards, such as
an ATI 9800 Pro, run the shortcut with the append - dx8, and it
would run much faster. I haven't tried this yet, but I'm going to
before
I upgrade. Just might be a quick fix for the lower end cards .. and
it's free.

johns

To help keep costs down, the card with 256MBs of memory might be using
slower memory.
Or memory that is less overclockable.
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What kind of performance difference will I see if I get a 6600GT with
256 as opposed to 128?

johns wrote:
Guy at Game store today told me that on the lesser cards, such as
an ATI 9800 Pro, run the shortcut with the append - dx8, and it
would run much faster. I haven't tried this yet, but I'm going to
before
I upgrade. Just might be a quick fix for the lower end cards .. and
it's free.

Doesn't this make you lose graphic effects? I know in Call of Duty 2 demo, I lost haze effects
when I used DirectX 7 mode in its video options on my old ATI Radeon 9800 AIW (128 MB) card.
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johns says...
Guy at Game store today told me that on the lesser cards, such as
an ATI 9800 Pro, run the shortcut with the append - dx8, and it
would run much faster.

It does work. It turns off alot of the DX9 effects. On some games
there'll be negligble difference and TBH, you'll be spending so much
time watching the action, you're unlikely to notice.


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Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras.

tod wrote:
To help keep costs down, the card with 256MBs of memory might be using
slower memory.
Or memory that is less overclockable.
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What kind of performance difference will I see if I get a 6600GT with
256 as opposed to 128?




no, they use DDR3, I would get a 256 MB card esp for EQ II and
FarCry where the texures are more detailed and the draw distance is
huge. I would actually recommend a 6800GT if you can afford it.

Don't think there is a DX8 mode, only DX7 and DX9. Nonetheless I tried it,
and couldn't see any indication that the command-line switch did anything.

Logically, though, for a 9800 Pro, running in DX8 mode would be *slower*,
since a lot of effects will have to be done in two passes instead of one.

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Guy at Game store today told me that on the lesser cards, such as
an ATI 9800 Pro, run the shortcut with the append - dx8, and it
would run much faster. I haven't tried this yet, but I'm going to
before
I upgrade. Just might be a quick fix for the lower end cards .. and
it's free.

johns