Legend 6600GT any good?

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Anyone know if the Legend brand of the 6600GT ( 8x AGP as mobo does not support PCI-E) is any good? DigitalPlanet have it for about R1300.00. Is the R500.00 saving worth it or should I stick with a known brand? It does come with a 2 year warranty so I dont see how I can loose.

6600GT still the best buy for about R1300.00?????

Your advice appreciated!
 
Thorin said:
Anyone know if the Legend brand of the 6600GT ( 8x AGP as mobo does not support PCI-E) is any good? DigitalPlanet have it for about R1300.00. Is the R500.00 saving worth it or should I stick with a known brand? It does come with a 2 year warranty so I dont see how I can loose.

6600GT still the best buy for about R1300.00?????

Your advice appreciated!
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Never heard of them. If you can, try to stick to one of these

Gainward
Asus
BFG
Leadtek

They are in the order I prefer them but they are all great brands. Gainward is king though.
 
Angellus said:
Never heard of them. If you can, try to stick to one of these

Gainward
Asus
BFG
Leadtek

They are in the order I prefer them but they are all great brands. Gainward is king though.
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BFG and Gainward are the same thing - The BFG Tech's are Oc-ed Gainwards therefor they are better... your order is messed up
 
What about a brand called sparkle, i mean i want to get a 7800GTX sparkle for R3850, and a 6600Gt is R1290, or R1100 for a 6600GT without VIVO.

So what u people know about sparkle, i only have 2 weeks before i buy it.

Oh and wat is a 6600LE Cuz its dirt cheap and has 256MB of memory.
 
Dam man it double posted

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Person said:
BFG and Gainward are the same thing - The BFG Tech's are Oc-ed Gainwards therefor they are better... your order is messed up
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Once again you put your foot in your mouth just like when you said the Athlon 64's were no longer produced and that AMD was only making X2's, which are 2 Athlon 64 cores on a single chip btw.

Here are the specs for the BFG and the Gainward 7800GTX.
BFG GeForce™ 7800 GTX OC
Core Clock 460MHz (vs. 430MHz standard)
Memory Clock 1300MHz (vs. 1200MHz standard)
Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/3500PCX
Core Clock 470MHz (vs. 430MHz standard)
Memory Clock 1300MHz (vs. 1200MHz standard)

Links

http://www.bfgtech.com/7800GTX_256_PCIX.html
http://www.gainward.de/new/main.html (Not a direct link to the card but go to products -->> » Gainward Ultra/3000-series -->> Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/3500PCX XP Golden Sample)

Yep 460MHz is faster than 470MHz for sure.

Thanks for playing and next time go make sure before posting lies.
 
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4cer said:
What about a brand called sparkle, i mean i want to get a 7800GTX sparkle for R3850, and a 6600Gt is R1290, or R1100 for a 6600GT without VIVO.

So what u people know about sparkle, i only have 2 weeks before i buy it.

Oh and wat is a 6600LE Cuz its dirt cheap and has 256MB of memory.
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I have heard of sparkle but dont know if the are good or bad.

the 6600LE IIRC is the lowest spec 6600, like the 6800LE is the lowest spec 6800 card. 6600GT for R1100 is a pretty good price. Just hope someone can give feedback on the Sparkle brand.
 
What about a brand called sparkle, i mean i want to get a 7800GTX sparkle for R3850, and a 6600Gt is R1290, or R1100 for a 6600GT without VIVO.

So what u people know about sparkle, i only have 2 weeks before i buy it.

Oh and wat is a 6600LE Cuz its dirt cheap and has 256MB of memory.
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4cer, where you getting these prices from?
 
well i've never heard of these brands, but i would also recomend Gigabyte, Asus and Leadtek's line of cards..
 
I've had a sparkle card before, theyre one of those "no bundle, and cheapish card" kinda companies... yet I never had a problem, and that is a great price for a 6600GT which is the best budget/midrange card around. You see alot of these guys on this forum spend alot of money on cards and when youre buying a midrange card you dont need the bundle or the most expensive brand cause youre trying to save money, so I dont think R500 is nearly worth it just for a better brand which hardly really helps performance much. You can always go Chaintech, not bad prices and quality/reliablity etc is just fine!
 
Angellus said:
Once again you put your foot in your mouth just like when you said the Athlon 64's were no longer produced and that AMD was only making X2's, which are 2 Athlon 64 cores on a single chip btw.

Here are the specs for the BFG and the Gainward 7800GTX.
BFG GeForce™ 7800 GTX OC
Core Clock 460MHz (vs. 430MHz standard)
Memory Clock 1300MHz (vs. 1200MHz standard)
Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/3500PCX
Core Clock 470MHz (vs. 430MHz standard)
Memory Clock 1300MHz (vs. 1200MHz standard)

Links

http://www.bfgtech.com/7800GTX_256_PCIX.html
http://www.gainward.de/new/main.html (Not a direct link to the card but go to products -->> » Gainward Ultra/3000-series -->> Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/3500PCX XP Golden Sample)

Yep 460MHz is faster than 470MHz for sure.

Thanks for playing and next time go make sure before posting lies.
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1st of all this is the Offical Gainward site http://www.gainward.com.tw/ and those are not the same cards dude...

Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/3500PCX
Core Clock 440MHz (vs. 430MHz standard)
Memory Clock 1250MHz (vs. 1200MHz standard)

Oh look once again you are WRONG... Deal with it.
 
4cer said:
What about a brand called sparkle, i mean i want to get a 7800GTX sparkle for R3850, and a 6600Gt is R1290, or R1100 for a 6600GT without VIVO.

So what u people know about sparkle, i only have 2 weeks before i buy it.

Oh and wat is a 6600LE Cuz its dirt cheap and has 256MB of memory.
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DONT BUY NO NAME BRAND CRAP... YOU'll JUST BE DISAPOINTED
 
Person said:
1st of all this is the Offical Gainward site http://www.gainward.com.tw/ and those are not the same cards dude...

Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/3500PCX
Core Clock 440MHz (vs. 430MHz standard)
Memory Clock 1250MHz (vs. 1200MHz standard)

Oh look once again you are WRONG... Deal with it.
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ONCE AGAIN YOU ARE WRONG if you go to the site www.gainward.com.tw (The one you linked) and select the UK as your site it takes you HERE.

Now to save you the trouble of searching the site I am linking the page where they show ALL their 7800 based cards.

CLICK ME

Notice the two cards on the left
Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/3500PCX XP VIVO-DVI-DVI
Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/3500PCX XP VIVO-DVI-DVI Golden Sample

The Golden sample version is the TOP card and runs at 470MHz/1300MHz. IF YOU DONT SPOT IT I CAN LINK A JPEG WITH A BIG RED CIRCLE AROUND IT.

There is one card above the Golden Sample, the Gainward CoolFX Watercooled 7800GTX that runs at 490MHz core, so your BFG is in no way superior to the Gainwards. Details HERE

Now before you post again and make an even bigger fool out of yourself, stop, think and then realize that you are wrong.

Thanks for playing... dude

[EDIT] You more than likely didnt know this but BFG also have a watercooled card running at 490/1300. CLICK so when it comes to watercooled cards BFG and Gainward are on par, for aircooling where the cards are still priced OK Gainward is No.1
 
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No-name brands are not necessarily bad, however as a rule of thumb, stick to the name brands (You can add MSI to the list).

The best thing to do is to try find out what the core clock & memory speed of the cards you're looking at, then compare them (more difficult than it sounds, tho try google).

The chipsets are the same, but the clock speeds can make or break a card.
Most of the time, the cheaper cards have lower clock speeds, because they're using cheaper components - meaning you get worse performance.

So yeah, you might have a 7800GTX, but because of cheap components, it can't perform as well as it should, and you might've been better off purchasing a 6800GT instead.
 
aside from the tit-for-tat here i would say that rather pay a bit extra for a known brand, which will still be around within the year of your warranty instead of paying for a nice cheap unknown card which may not exist after a year anymore.

my 2 cents...
 
Well a Sparkle Nvidia GeForce 6600LE 256MB DDR 128Bit PCI-E 16x TV-Out DVI/SLI is R752. so was just wondering, cuz it had double the memory of the GT, but i didn't know what LE was.

THe 7800GTX sparkle is supposed to be 430Mhz core and1.25GHz Ram.
 
well le means its a lesser version of the card

like 6800 le got only 8 pipelines etc

try stay away from le cards

and 256 meg memory doesnt make a huge difference in performance
 
killadoob said:
well le means its a lesser version of the card

like 6800 le got only 8 pipelines etc

try stay away from le cards

and 256 meg memory doesnt make a huge difference in performance
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for an LE card no, but for a normal GT card the 256 MB of RAM is better to cram those high-res textures of DOOM 3 and FEAR... ;)
 
yes but doesnt make that much more different just set your aperture size to 512 and your on your way
 
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