About the 8600GT

[marcus]

do not go for an 8600GT, its old and slow for most games, you can look out for 9500GT or 9600GT.
9500GT is cheap and is a good overclockable card on stock cooling. 9600GT is faster.

Yeah I have a 9500gt and an 8600gt. Guess which one is in the back of my wardrobe gathering dust?

The 9500 is basically a modded 8600, so is a fair bit faster and not much more expensive. (plus easy to oc )

I recommend the NVIDIA 9500GT for sure

[seinfeldx]

Dx10 helps a lot Xenosaga.

[redlof]

do not go for an 8600GT, its old and slow for most games, you can look out for 9500GT or 9600GT.
9500GT is cheap and is a good overclockable card on stock cooling. 9600GT is faster.

Yeah I have a 9500gt and an 8600gt. Guess which one is in the back of my wardrobe gathering dust?

The 9500 is basically a modded 8600, so is a fair bit faster and not much more expensive. (plus easy to oc )

I recommend the NVIDIA 9500GT for sure

Ahem, 9500GT is not a moded 8600GT!!!
9500GT has a completely different architecture.

GeForce 9500 GT

* 55 nm G96 GPU
* 32 Stream Processors.
* 550 MHz core, with a 1400 MHz unified shader clock.
* 8.8 billion texels/s fillrate.
* 256 MB/512MB 1600 MHz GDDR3 memory or 256 MB 1000 MHz GDDR2 memory, both with a 128-bit memory bus.
* 25.6 GB/s memory bandwidth for boards configured with GDDR3 800 MHz memory.


Geforce 8600GT
80 nm G84 GPU
32 Stream Processors.
540MHz core 1190MHz unified shader clock
8.6billion texels/s fillrate
256/512MB 1400MHz GDDR3 memory or 256/512MB 800MHZ GDDR2 memory, both with 128bit memory bus.
22.4 GB/s memory bandwidth for boards configured with GDDR3 800 MHz memory.

[marcus]

Ahem, 9500GT is not a moded 8600GT!!!

lol I guess I was being a bit vague when saying that.. but they are probably the closest related 8 to 9 series cards.

+the architecture isn't completely different, a fair bit yes, but it is quite similar in places.



Card Comparison

[Akira420]

Hmm.. Well I heard a 2.5ghz would be fine. Oo

And I saw that bench mark quad vs duo thread before, on a 2.6 xenosaga runs at a 45fps.