Just got my card yesterday and hooked it all up. Works great, just how i wanted it to. Played a bunch of games on my tv and watched a movie on my tv with the svideo hookup with the easiest of use. The software was very easy to use. Thanks for the recommendation WDOWSING. I only ran into one little problem though. When inserting the card i had trouble. I literally had to jam it in there, it didnt go in easy. Took me about a half hour of wiggling it and then i finaly jammed it in. Everything worked after that but my only concern is that while i was jamming it in i would take it out every once in a while to look at it to see if i messed anything up. I saw that two of the gold bars(the little gold pieces that are on the end of the card where the card goes into the slot) were half broken off. Is this going to effect anything eventually? should i send it back and get another one? Thanks
i think you should send it back, because if you run into any problems, it could of een because of them 2bars, but if you send it back, and you ran into a different problem you would defintly no that its not the gold bars.
No problem mikej3131, ideally yes, but if your two lazy like me and everythink is working fine like you say it is then one might not bother.
hmmm decisions. Yeah everything is working fine. Well the first two times i turned my comp on i heard a repeated clicking noise until the third time i restarted it then everything worked fine after that. If i send it back i might try this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814141017 Someone said it has more core clock and memory clock and i would get alot better performance out of it. Any thoughts on this one?
hey mike,,, like i said that card is better than the 6600LE you have at the mo. you can check that out yourself by looking at the product page youve posted, take a look where it says core and memory clock, the higher number of MHz the better performing the card is. compare it to the one you currently have and youll see what i mean.
Hey Sypher, Sorry i dont know to much about graphics cards and their specs. so i tried to get as much info and as much opinions as i could. So far you have been right on the money though and helped an amature like me get up and running.
Anybody know the advantages of DVI compared to VGA? i have a DVI input on my 19 inch lcd monitor and my new graphics card has a DVI output on it
DVI is the new VGA like DDr2 is the new DDR, 64bit is the new 32bit ect, meant to be better but not really come on that much but will do in the near future. i would ask (pm) elusiv1 if he is still selling his card maybe worth a shot
Hey Sypher what do you think about elusiv's card? Better than the 6500? I noticed elusiv's is only 128MB and the one you just recently told me to get was 256MB. Do these MB specs make a big difference. Also i have been hearing about this 64 bit tech. alot lately. Someone told me that you wont be able to install the new windows coming out nesxt year if you dont have 64bit tech. Can someone explain to me in non technical terms what this 64bit is? Also how can i tell if i have it on my pc?
Well a little update here. I decided to not only play emulator games like nes and sega but have been having alot of fun playing pc games including vice city for the pc, sims and a bunch of others. Last week i bought that 77 dollar evga 256 MB 6600le graphics card one of the people in this thread recommended to me. But that was when i told him i was only gonna be watching movies and playing ninetendo games. Since i am going to be playing these high end 3d games, should i be upgrading my card? If so, any suggestions?
mikej3131: how much is ur bugdget, depending on this we willl be able to poijnt u in the reight direction.
hey mike, 125 dollars would get you a pretty good card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150098 this ones a great card, you wont have any trouble at all with any games using this card
Hey sypher, Question about that card. It says that it is only 128MB. and since the one i have now has more(256MB), then mine is beter in that area? And if this is true, is there another similar card like the one u just suggested with 256MB
Oh yeah sypher to answer your question about your post "that card is pretty good, its midrange so it will play anything at a decent level of quality, you only need to upgrade if your interested in playing games at their highest quality, but youd also need to get more system memory aswell as if iremeber right you only have 512 meg, really you need at least 1 gig for gaming" I do have 1 gig of RAM
Can someone answer my presvious question please? Also how about this card. i see that it got bad reviews. But it is 256MB, and above 500 for memory clock and core clock? The one guy said something about the 64-bit cripples the card. is this true?
actaully i might go with this one if i can get some opinions on it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130263 What is SLI? Also if you see in the reviews, they say go for the 6800gs instead. Should i?
ok for the same price i can get the xt version of this card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130261 Is this better?
Ok for the XT version one guy said this Cons: first one i recieved had bad memory, pay a little extra and get the GS or the one with more reviews/better rating How do i know if it has bad memory?
