X1600 Pro Or 6600GT?

[Lee2k4]

My current card which is a 6600GT keeps overheating so I am looking at buying another one, for under £100. I found a x1600 Pro which has 512mb of ram and a 6600GT which has 128mb of ram. The 6600GT served me very well and ran games like BF2 and FEAR no problem at all, but I am tempted at going for the x1600 Pro due to it's amount of ram. Is ram that important in games or should I be looking for something else such as clock speeds and pipelines?

 

[geordiepaul]

Why not just get a better cooler for your current card?

 

[Trilogy]

hi
i've put 2 computers together 1 with a x1600 agp and 1 with a 7600 gt pci-e and i think the 7600 is slightly better but both very good cards or if u want a real bargain get a 7300 gt there great for the money

 

[Lee2k4]

Why not just get a better cooler for your current card?

Because even with a big house fan on it at full speed it still overheats. It's that hot I can't even touch it without getting burnt.

EDIT

AGP Only as my board don't support SLI/PCI

 

[LoadsaMoney]

6600 GT is much better than an x1600 pro, the x1600 pro is atrocious, and the 512mb is wasted on it, you would be downgrading.

 

[Lee2k4]

6600 GT is much better than an x1600 pro, the x1600 pro is atrocious, and the 512mb is wasted on it, you would be downgrading.

But the specs on the X1600 Pro compared to the 6600 GT look much better, plus the x1600 is a much newer card.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Doesn't make a difference, the 6600 GT whoops it.

I would link you to a very good review which shows this over at Guru3D, but they are down till the weekend as moving servers.

To much porn that affecting the old eyes, i thought they had been hacked.

 

[man_from_uncle]

I think Tomshardware does a good comparison of the X1600pro vs a 6600gt and I think the 6600gt comes out on top at least 2/3 of the time.

Hang on......

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/graphics/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=572&model2=540&chart=209

There you go.

 

[Lee2k4]

Cheers for that, has made me change my mind about the 6600GT now, It was a good card when I had it but I think it was when I had a power surge which had blown my PSU, it must have done something to the card causing it to overheat. I am not really bothered about these new high end cards, tbh I can't afford it at the moment so thats why I happy with a mid range card.

 

[man_from_uncle]

For a hundred quid or so you could get a cheap PCI-e motherboard and a OcUk 7300gt with DDR3 which would outperform both the X1600s and the 6600gt by a fair bit.

If you've got enough for an AGP X1600 pro, then you've got enough to upgrade from you 6600gt.

 

[Mitch007]

Cheers for that, has made me change my mind about the 6600GT now, It was a good card when I had it but I think it was when I had a power surge which had blown my PSU, it must have done something to the card causing it to overheat. I am not really bothered about these new high end cards, tbh I can't afford it at the moment so thats why I happy with a mid range card.

Have you had a look at the card for any physical damage. The Buck/Boost converters that convert the PSU input voltage to one the GPU and memory require should provide a buffer to save the chips set, but the components around them may be damaged as a result of the surge, this may be visible damage.. e.g. blown capacitor. It may not help with a fix, but at least you'll know what is wrong.