BleepingComputer.com: How Good Is Evga E-geforce 8600gts 256m Ddr3 Pci-e

$169.99 Canadian. Good deal?
http://www.a-power.com/product-3591-355-1

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Core Clock Speed

675 MHz GPU
Stream Processors

32 Pixel Pipelines
Memory Clock Speed

2000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth

32 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
Shader Clock Speed

1300MHz
Bus

PCI-E 16x
Interface

DVI-I, DVI-I, HDTV-7

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I originally bought a ATI Radeon X1950 Sapphire 512MB (beautiful card)
unfortunately, my motherboard setup conflicts with the card, as the card is too long. The powersupply for my motherboard directly conflicts with the card.

I called the store I bought it from, and they told me this is the best alternative card, considering that my motherboard isn't meant to have high end gaming cards.

What do you think? Whats a good alternative? Is this a good alternative? Because the size of the video card is definitely a limiter, thats why the technician chose this one.


Thanks guys

It depends on what games you want to play using this card?

well I want to play Doom 3, Company of Heroes MAXED OUT

maybe shadows of Cherynbol Maxed out too.

I don't expect UT 2007, or Bioshock to be maxed out. But maybe all the 2005 and up to 2006 games, i want them all maxed out regardless of FPS or RTS

Then that's a pretty good card, I have an XFX 8600GTS XXX and can play Doom 3, Prey, CoH, Painkiller, Colin Mcrae's dirt, Quake 4 easily.