6600 GT for £30?!?

[luckypapyrussam]

Hi, i have just spoken to a friend who said he would sell his 6600 GT to me for £30... first of all.. is this a good bargan

And most of all... would this card play crysis on all low settings with a OK framerate?

By then i will have 1GB of ram... and im not sure what CPU yet... one faster than my 3200+ lol

(I hate my crap pc )

Thanks

Sam

 

[bliss]

That's not a bad price if it's a good clocker. Not sure about it playing crysis though.

 

[luckypapyrussam]

If i upgrade my ram and my CPU then i think it could have a slighty chance of playing crysis... but i will just have to wait until the game comes out i guess...

 

[=assassin=]

For £30, I think it' a good price - Crysis should work Ok at 640x480 resolution at low settings Ok; I'll doubt that ultra low settings like that would be any problem for a smooth framerate. You may even be able to go a tiny bit higher on some less demanding settings.

 

[rangor gubbins]

good price for a 6600gt.
If it helps, my OCed 6600gt will let me play oblivion with ok settings (1024 x 768), medium texture, but no HDR, distance bars in the middle, but no shadows.
Maybe old, but they are still good cards.

 

[luckypapyrussam]

Yea... and for £30 i cant complain really... i will probably overclock it a little to get a little more juice out of it aswell..

It should do me untill i upgrade in the near future..

Thanks

Sam.

 

[PinkFloyd]

The card is worth a good £15 more than that if it is PCIe. If it is AGP your staring at an absolute bargain.

 

[postmanfw]

The going rate for an agp one is around £60 depending on what make it is so definately a bargain. Get a decent cooler and oc it....though a good one (if agp) will cost as choice is limited

 

[Hesky82]

pair a 6600gt with a fast processor and Ive found it can run modern games no problem. I bought a 2nd hand bfg 6600gt oc for 35 bux a while bk for my htpc rig, I tested it in my main gaming rig to see if it worked and was really impressed with its performance.

 

[luckypapyrussam]

Well.... im glad to say it is a AGP xD

Anyway im happy to know im getting a bargain...

I dont really know but im sure it will run crysis on low settings... well when i upgrade to 1.5gb ram and a better CPU.

Anyway thanks guys.. im happy to no this is a good purchase xD... lol as at the moment im running on a radeon 9600SE witch is lame... but seems to run all games i have tried on low settings... eg. COD2, F.E.A.R., BF2 (Only just but lags when it first starts up) Erm... well pretty much anything... its been a pretty good card to me

Anyway thanks again guys..

Sam.

 

[PinkFloyd]

Hell - even if you buy it and sell it straight away as it isn't good enough its still worth doing!

 

[luckypapyrussam]

lol i couldnt do that to a friend

Sam.

xD

 

[Goodeh]

lol i couldnt do that to a friend

Sam.

xD

Then find a way to remove the friend part of the relationship!

We're talking 30 quid here

 

[luckypapyrussam]

Yea... could be done...

Only messing obviously

But hey... thats what friends are for... to buy things for cheap of them.. then sell them a few months later for how much you bought it for

Sam.

 

[lee87]

It would be above the minimum requirements for crysis so it should run on low quality.

Minimum Requirements

CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz
Graphics: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)
RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows Vista
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 256k+
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX9.0c with Windows XP


Recommended Requirements

CPU: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D)
Graphics: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent
RAM: 1.5Gb
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 512k+ (128k+ upstream)
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX10 with Windows Vista

http://digitalbattle.com/2006/07/23/crysis-system-requirements-released/

 

[luckypapyrussam]

Wow thanks for that link... i could even keep my CPU :S but i will still upgrade a little...

I would only have to buy this card from my friend and get a little more ram to run this game... :S thats crazy...

But makes me happy... if these are real that is...

Anyway thanks... xD

Sam.