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Card question

Does anybody know if you can monitor the temp of this card with the software that comes with it? If I decide to play an older game would this card be better then the Gigabyte 6600GT?
 
2string said:
Does anybody know if you can monitor the temp of this card with the software that comes with it? If I decide to play an older game would this card be better then the Gigabyte 6600GT?
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It will be slower than an original 6600 GT. Not a lot slower, just a tad.

If you want faster than your old 6600 GT, you'll want to look at the 7600 GS, or the 7600 GT.

The 7600 GT can be had for around $90, unless you're dead-set on passive cooling.
 
I don't see any difference in the 7300gt and the 7600gs except for the PixlePipelines. Am I missing something?Do I really need more pipelines? The 7300gt is cheaper.
 
2string said:
I don't see any difference in the 7300gt and the 7600gs except for the PixlePipelines. Am I missing something?Do I really need more pipelines? The 7300gt is cheaper.
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The 7300GT overclocks to 7600GS performance and beyond easily, especialy for 2 year old games and back. For todays games, more pipelines helps performance, regardless of overclocking. If your looking at games like HL2 and further back, I'd buy a 73GT and overclock the hell out of it. It's cheap.
 
2string said:
I don't see any difference in the 7300gt and the 7600gs except for the PixlePipelines. Am I missing something?Do I really need more pipelines? The 7300gt is cheaper.
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Well consider two cards identical in almost every way, same family of chipset from the same mfg, same clock speed etc. However one has 4 pipelines and one has 8 pipelines. When comparing those two cards, the card with 8 pipelines will basically be two times faster than the card with 4 pipelines. Each pipeline works on a job, and if you have 8 pipelines that card would be doing 8 things each clock cycle, where a 4 pipeline card would be doing 4 things each clock cycle. (very dumbed down, and this is looking at same family chipsets, different GPUs will do things differently so it is not quite that cut and dry)
 
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