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  Jeff

  1 year ago

  FWIW, this is the card I'll be buying when I rebuild (fairly soon). I'm not major gamer, but it seems like it would do for newer FPS's at moderate resolution.
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  Rob

  1 year ago

  It's far from the best..with monsters like the HD 3870 X2..
  
  But it's a great card for it's low price, even if you won't be running Crysis any time soon.
  
  XFX is also a great brand, so yeah, you didn't pretty well =]
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  Rick Lee

  1 year ago

  I recognize that box. That's the card that my nephew asked for for Christmas and which I supplied. He did his research and said that it was the best card around for the money...in the neighborhood of a hundred bucks. The user ratings on Newegg are very high and he's happy with it.
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  Alex

  1 year ago

  Aww, you should have saved a little more and bought a 8800 gt, Much better and not much more expensive at all. oh well, that cards not bad, I think you can run most of the new games pretty well on it. If you are building a new system, buy yourself a motherboard that support sli and get another 8600. I suggest a xfx 680i LT sli. I did the exact same thing with the computer I am using right now, just with a 8800 gt instead. Sli isn't really that complecated, I suggest going for it. ( If you get that motherboard, let me just help you before you even encounter trouble, there are two serial ports, make sure you sue the right one. :P )
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  Alex

  1 year ago

  *use xD
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  david ponce

  1 year ago

  Actually, Alex, that's the exact motherboard I got, and putting two 8600 in SLI is exactly what I had in mind. I don't have the second 8600 yet, but at $100, it shouldn't be long before I order it. I'll do a post when it comes in, and you can help me out then :)
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  Alex

  1 year ago

  Aha! Awesome.:P
  
  Sure, feel free to email me if you need any help, I think I went through almost every problem that was possible when building my rig.
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  Saj

  1 year ago

  Hah, anything you guys have is way better than mine. I think I'm going to go out and buy a new one just to make my ego happy :P.
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  Alan Smithee

  1 year ago

  Shouldn't you asked that before you bought it?
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  david ponce

  1 year ago

  @Alan. Sure, I could have asked that. I could have done some research, and bought a top notch rig with all the best parts. But this was a $400 barebones kit from TigerDirect, and that seemed like a good price. So I bought it, and now I'm just trying to have a little conversation with my readers about the stuff I bought.
  
  Like I said, I'm impulsive. Not sensible. :)
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  Alan Smithee

  1 year ago

  @david Well i'm a very impulsive buyer to (hurray for adhd) so i wasnt judging you (or you're great site) just thought to point out that... well.. you know.
  Anyway €400 for a barebone is cheap i would problebly picked it up to ( €268) is practicaly giving it away considering the card goes still for around €100,- around here (netherlands)
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  Pietje666

  1 year ago

  my PC has a 8600 GS (GT is better) and most of the new games i can play with a FPS from 30 to 40 with most things on high except the highest anisotropic filtering FSAA @ maximum and anti aliasing on maximum so GT is good enough for the most games (i don't care about crysis)
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  Anonymous

  1 year ago

  Don't bother with SLI. sell this one and get a 8800GT. Much, much better.
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  Alex

  1 year ago

  That is technically right, but since he already has a 8600 getting another isn't really that much worse than one 8800. Especially not after he's overclocked/tuned it with the bundled software.
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  Rob

  1 year ago

  Getting two 8600GTs in SLI won't be nearly as good as a single 8800GT...especially if it's a 512mb one.
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  Russ

  1 year ago

  I have that exact card... in fact I still have the box for it :) I like it... not using it for much gaming. Mainly a new Vista Box and it gives a Windows Experience rating (on the card) of 5.5... not bad for the price!
  
  Russ
  http://www.GadgetKing.com
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