[Pc_Support] Re: 6600GT or 6800LE?

[Jason Boxman]

On Monday 25 July 2005 19:53, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> > True enough.  But many rumors of success from different
> > people in forums with little to gain by making stuff up
> > is somewhat compelling.
>
> Of course, because they spend the time to find the units that
> are actually undamaged, and then testing how far/well they
> run.  But the likelihood of getting all of them is very
> remote -- there are typically 1+ damaged units, and 1+ units
> that are "less than stable."

I figured what the heck and just went ahead and bought the 6600GT.

XFX GeForce 6600 GT 128MB DDR3/8x-AGP/TV-Out/Dual-DVI (Retail Box) 

I couldn't help myself.  I've never owned a card within the current generation 
in my life.  Actually with the 7800 or whatever, I'm very shortly going to be 
in the previous generation of cards.  But then, I'm usually two generations 
behind the current crop of cards, so it's still a step up.  I just hope the 
6600GT weathers as well as the Ti series has.  (But then if I later upgrade 
to PCIe it likely won't even matter. Sigh.)

Oh, apparently according to the description above, this card is DDR3.  I guess 
my  previous post was incorrect.  Perhaps they're all starting to ship with 
DDR3 now.

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Jason Boxman
Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator
Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida
http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff