Nvidia 6600gt or 6800?
 

I run most of my games on 1024 x 768 at medium-high settings.. WoW, BF2 those sorts. What would you suggest for the resolution and settings I run? price difference is about 25 bucks on the two..

I have a 6600 gt PCI-E and it works fine. I run all my games at about the same settings as you and its smoothe. I know the Geforce 6800 gt is quite a bit better, but I'm not so sure about the 6800 and im too lazy to look up reviews right now.

Basically, 6600 gt is a safe bet, but I would probably wait until the price goes down. Should have a new line of graphics cards on the market in about 4-6 months.

Well it's possible to unlock the pipelines on some 6800's to get full 6800gt cores (but of course you will still only have 128 megs of RAM). If you go to www.newegg.com you can read the reviews of people who have successfully accomplished unlocking the pipelines from 12 to 16.

4-6 months! Im running a Geforced 4 ti4200.. It can't even run BF2 :P I gotta upgrade! Hehe.. 6800gt it too much, Ill probably just get the 6600gt. Should hold me for a while..

http://www.tomshardware.com/index.html
Excellent resource, will have reviews of the cards your considering, and probably side by side as well.

Neither one is far from the other performance-wise. The 6800 is definitely a better card, but it's better by around $25. :) In other words, whichever you feel comfortable with. Either one would be a good deal.

-Lasereth

That might not be the graphics card...I've got one on my old machine, but the reason it can't run some games is because the processor is an AMD-733.

No it's definately the graphics card. It's because BF 2 requires Pixel Shaders 1.4 and Geforce 4 TI's only have 1.3. They found a way to hack up a DLL and run the game but all the textures are screwed etc.

Next question, is which 6600GT do I want? What brands are good? Links to specific cheap ones? Quiet ones are preferred! Thanks :)