8600 GTS is an excellent mid-range card!

I recently stepped up from a 6150LE (I know, it sucks) to a 8600GTS and wow, what a difference. I know most of you have high-end cards like the 8800 series, but this was a more practicle solution to my problem (wife won't let me spend $500+ on my PC). I would love to have an 8800GTX, but it's just to far out of my price range. 8600GTS is a decent alternative. I can run most games that have come out in the past year or so at full settings, with hardly a drop in frame rate. There are a few stutters here and there, but nothing major.

Like I said, if you don't have a ton of money to spend on a new GPU, the 8600GTS (and to a little lesser extent, the 8600GT) make a great buy. Just wanted to share.

Indeed it is. Be happy. I also heard that 8600 should run Bioshock on high settings in 1280x1024 whit very good framerate in DX10.domke13

I agree, The 8600GTS is a great card. I just need to upgrade the rest of my rig to stop the bottlenecking. :evil:Sandro909

[QUOTE="Sandro909"]I agree, The 8600GTS is a great card. I just need to upgrade the rest of my rig to stop the bottlenecking. :evil:AARONRULZ1

No, I'm ordering my parts sometime next week. :D

8600GT is what i'm getting,i don't need Ultra settings with 16xAA and AF @ 100FPS,i can live with medium-high settings with 2xAA/8xAF,and its cheap and a HUGE jump from Intel Intergrated video :DAARONRULZ1

I'm playing CSS with everything on High, Reflections set to all, 4xAA, 2xAF @ 1280x1024 and getting between 55-70 fps. Same with SIN Ep.1. SWAT 4 also runs at max settings smooth a butter at around 50-60 fps. I know these are old games, but that's still impressive!

[QUOTE="AARONRULZ1"]8600GT is what i'm getting,i don't need Ultra settings with 16xAA and AF @ 100FPS,i can live with medium-high settings with 2xAA/8xAF,and its cheap and a HUGE jump from Intel Intergrated video :DEnderSR388

I'm playing CSS with everything on High, Reflections set to all, 4xAA, 2xAF @ 1280x1024 and getting between 55-70 fps. Same with SIN Ep.1. SWAT 4 also runs at max settings smooth a butter at around 50-60 fps. I know these are old games, but that's still impressive!

I remember that feeling when I got my 7600GT. Glorious, isn't it? :P

[QUOTE="AARONRULZ1"]8600GT is what i'm getting,i don't need Ultra settings with 16xAA and AF @ 100FPS,i can live with medium-high settings with 2xAA/8xAF,and its cheap and a HUGE jump from Intel Intergrated video :DEnderSR388

I'm playing CSS with everything on High, Reflections set to all, 4xAA, 2xAF @ 1280x1024 and getting between 55-70 fps. Same with SIN Ep.1. SWAT 4 also runs at max settings smooth a butter at around 50-60 fps. I know these are old games, but that's still impressive!

bump the filtering to 16x, it wont lower the frames at all.

[QUOTE="domke13"]Indeed it is. Be happy. I also heard that 8600 should run Bioshock on high settings in 1280x1024 whit very good framerate in DX10.AARONRULZ1

There was interview of developer on Bioshock official website. The question was i think how good you could play game whit recommended settings (which 8600 is). The answer was that you should get very nice framerate, on high settings, in 1280x1024, or you could sacrifice high framerate for bigger resolution. I dont know how true it is but i belive it is true.

[QUOTE="AARONRULZ1"]8600GT is what i'm getting,i don't need Ultra settings with 16xAA and AF @ 100FPS,i can live with medium-high settings with 2xAA/8xAF,and its cheap and a HUGE jump from Intel Intergrated video :DEnderSR388

I'm playing CSS with everything on High, Reflections set to all, 4xAA, 2xAF @ 1280x1024 and getting between 55-70 fps. Same with SIN Ep.1. SWAT 4 also runs at max settings smooth a butter at around 50-60 fps. I know these are old games, but that's still impressive!

Im thinking of buying a new graphics card but am not keen on spending more than £100, i have the 8500 GT but want to play new games like bioshock and crysis. Will the 8500 GT be able to handle any of those types of games?

Secondly I'm not sure what card to choose, at the moement im stuck between the 7900 GT and 8600GT(S) or any other grapchi cards any of you guys know of that'll play those games? thanks

imo, the first thing to upgrade is the video card, unless u have a sempron or a celeron.r3351925

Nah, I have an Athlon 64 3800+. I did have a 650 Duron back in '00 and it ran pretty good! I also had a GeForce3 Ti 500 though. God I loved that card. :)

[QUOTE="AARONRULZ1"][QUOTE="domke13"]Indeed it is. Be happy. I also heard that 8600 should run Bioshock on high settings in 1280x1024 whit very good framerate in DX10.domke13

There was interview of developer on Bioshock official website. The question was i think how good you could play game whit recommended settings (which 8600 is). The answer was that you should get very nice framerate, on high settings, in 1280x1024, or you could sacrifice high framerate for bigger resolution. I dont know how true it is but i belive it is true.

[QUOTE="r3351925"]imo, the first thing to upgrade is the video card, unless u have a sempron or a celeron.EnderSR388

Nah, I have an Athlon 64 3800+. I did have a 650 Duron back in '00 and it ran pretty good! I also had a GeForce3 Ti 500 though. God I loved that card. :)

did u know that the geforce 3 ti 500 performs on par with the 7300le?

[QUOTE="r3351925"]imo, the first thing to upgrade is the video card, unless u have a sempron or a celeron.EnderSR388

Nah, I have an Athlon 64 3800+. I did have a 650 Duron back in '00 and it ran pretty good! I also had a GeForce3 Ti 500 though. God I loved that card. :)

My brother is still using a GeForce Ti 4200. :lol:

[QUOTE="EnderSR388"]

[QUOTE="r3351925"]imo, the first thing to upgrade is the video card, unless u have a sempron or a celeron.Sandro909

Nah, I have an Athlon 64 3800+. I did have a 650 Duron back in '00 and it ran pretty good! I also had a GeForce3 Ti 500 though. God I loved that card. :)

My brother is still using a GeForce Ti 4200. :lol:

my cousin is using my old 4400ti card, damn i love that card untill now.

did u know that the geforce 3 ti 500 performs on par with the 7300le? r3351925

Is that good or bad? :?

ok thanks, is the 8500 GT better than the X1950 pro? blingbling4

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10088613&catid=

Sorrry but is that card you guys are talking about, im also interested in purchasing one and i live in canada so not sure if that is the one, thanks for the help.
hagiiiiiiiiii

I don't have to superclocked version of the GTS, just the standard. But, yeah, these are great cards for the price the GT and GTS.

Sorry but whats the diff between the superlocked and the standard version?hagiiiiiiiiii

The clock speeds are faster. Here's a link to some comparisons.

so clearly the x1950 pro is a better card than the 8600 GTS as it comes cheaper too, right?blingbling4

Wouldn't the 8600 be better by default because it has DirextX10 capabilities, whereas the x1950pro doesn't? Sure, the x1950 pro might clock faster, but isn't DirectX10 reason enough to purchase the 8600 over it?GettingTired

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10088613&catid=

Sorrry but is that card you guys are talking about, im also interested in purchasing one and i live in canada so not sure if that is the one, thanks for the help.
hagiiiiiiiiii

Save $50 and get a better performing card...
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=14080BD0136&vpn=11095-01-20R&manufacture=SAPPHIRE

[QUOTE="hagiiiiiiiiii"]http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10088613&catid=

Sorrry but is that card you guys are talking about, im also interested in purchasing one and i live in canada so not sure if that is the one, thanks for the help.
IAM-CA

Save $50 and get a better performing card...
http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=14080BD0136&vpn=11095-01-20R&manufacture=SAPPHIRE

Yea but my mother board is Goldfish 3, so i don't know which cardi can use....:( Help pleaseeehagiiiiiiiiii

OK, that is bad news... That board has integrated graphics and no AGP or PCI-E slot for a graphics card.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00361570
Expansion slots

• Three PCI
• No AGP slot

What about the 2600pro? It does better than the 8500, but it doesn't do as good as the 8600. However, it is only $20 less than the 8600, but to a wife, being less than three digits means a lot. :lol:jed-at-war

I freaking love my EVGA 8600gts. The nice thing is, I got it for about $40 cheaper than retail because of a MIR, and EVGA is going to give me full price for the step-up program. That means I can step up to an 8800gts soon and get one of those for like a hundred bucks more and that's all.

In the meantime, I've overclocked the 8600gts and it takes anything I throw at it and then some.

BY THE WAY, the 8600 hate on the net is silly. I think a lot of people were expecting it to be comparible to the 8800s, but this is simply an awesome mid-range card so that's unfair. If your're not going to be gaming at insanely high resoltions, then the 8600gts is more than capable of anything you need it to do. Until Crysis perhaps... hard to say about THAT one.

[QUOTE="jed-at-war"]What about the 2600pro? It does better than the 8500, but it doesn't do as good as the 8600. However, it is only $20 less than the 8600, but to a wife, being less than three digits means a lot. :lol:kodex1717

How did I miss the XT? :?

I must have mistaken it for an overpriced 2600pro. I think when I build my pc this fall, I will get the 8600gts or 2600xt instead of ax1650pro. I won't be doing DX10, but these are good cards either way for only $100.

I freaking love my EVGA 8600gts. The nice thing is, I got it for about $40 cheaper than retail because of a MIR, and EVGA is going to give me full price for the step-up program. That means I can step up to an 8800gts soon and get one of those for like a hundred bucks more and that's all.Xdrive