[Pc_Support] Re: igh, been fantasizing about BF2 -- Socket-462/AthlonXP has gone up in price ...

[Jason Boxman]

On Sunday 24 July 2005 23:46, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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> Not entirely true.  The AGP prices on new nVidia 6200/6600 cards have
> now finally dropped to affordable levels.  PCIe doesn't offer the
> greatest boost, at least not in an AMD platform where _both_ are already
> segmented in its real system interconnect.
>
> And AGP mainboards are _cheap_ these days, because everyone wants PCIe.

I wish so many different companies didn't crapflood the market with so many 
NVidia variants.  I can't tell which is what.  This one was the cheapest from 
Monarch and this review claims the memory runs at the full 1000MHz the PCIe 
version does.  I've seen many people complain some of the other 6600GT 
variants I looked at for AGP on newegg (via the comments section) run their 
memory at 900MHz.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/02/01/xfx_geforce_6600_agp/1.html

*shrug*

I might just snag that and call it a done deal.  Time for sleep.

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Jason Boxman
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