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02-22-2006, 04:28 AM

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leed

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Re: Video Cards

Evga has been getting pretty popular, and for the price its a pretty good choice for vid cards.

Im rocking an MSI 6600gt, holding up strong since Nov. and got a pretty decent stable OC out of it.

02-22-2006, 07:42 AM

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Re: Video Cards

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Originally Posted by crxtuner

i have an asus v9700 integrated with geForce fX5700 and 256mb ramdac memory. Ive had it for a year now and it just now started acting up to where i will be inside Counterstrike and my fps will spike from 100 to around 20ish and then sit level and do this off and on. I wouldnt reccomend anything other then ati, my bros computer has a radeon 9800(non pro and same motherboard and memory setup) and it performances exceptionally even after being use for more then 2 years now.

it's not the video card.

Try a fresh format/install, probably something in the background eating up cpu cycles.

also, it's pretty common knowledge that all 5x00 series cards from nVidia are lacking in performance anyways. Back then Ati was the ish, next generation (6x00 series from nVidia) was the best (can you say SM 3.0), now it looks like Ati has got the fastest single card. but it costs 600+. Soon you'll see dual core video cards (im pretty sure nVidia has released some already for testing purposes in SLi, meaning, Quad GPU)

I agree w/ leed, the 6600gt is an awsome card, got mine a year ago for $230 CDN. (eVGA).

and the whole, this company makes this card better then this one arguement doesnt really apply to video cards. all the manufactures follow a basic schematic provided by nVidia for layout and components (this is called Reference Design). Every once in a while a company changes the design, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

The weakest link on most cards are the heatsinks. Mine was over 100c (due to improper seating im sure) but i changed it anyways. 52c @ full load is good for me