8500GT good for the casual gamer?

8500GT good for the casual gamer?

its only around $110CAD where as the 8600GT is $200

plus im only a casual gamer and play usually during vacations and an odd hour here and there

the 8500 bairly runs as well as a 7600...

if you want a casual gaming experience head to the 8600 as it is powerful enough to handle the curent games as well as some future ones without having to kill every special graphical feature for FPS.

If the 8600GT is out of your range, go for a 7600GT.

The 8500GT is rubbish, and should only be used in the HTPC space.

8600GT for $200? LMao..

$135 eVGA 8600GT

http://dytronix.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=4836

$155 XFX 8600GT (OC'd)

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=15180BD1119

$179 eVGA 8600GTS

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=11610BD1293

$100 eVGA 7600GT

http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=309928

Lots of choices for you now. ^^

I am bulding a comp for my dad and went on the site of the store where I get all my parts and they have a prebuilt system with pretty much all of the parts I want. I am Just questioning the video card. It is a nvidia 8600 GT.

Other Parts Include,2gb ram(PC2-6400), intel core 2 duo E6600, antec 900 gaming case. The price is 1379 cad.

Is the video card good, my dad mainly wants to be able to play the flight sim X on it or should go for an 8800.

You could look at x2000 series too because they are cheaper than 8500-8600 nvidia cardsdayaccus007

Is the video card good, my dad mainly wants to be able to play the flight sim X on it or should go for an 8800.

GordoMIM

You can play Flight sim X on max 1280x1024 with a 8600gt but only at 23fps, maybe overclocked you might be able to get more I haven't tried that yet.