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Which 6600 card for Dimension 4700?
I have a Dell 4700. I am looking at getting a GeForce 6600 (not GT) card.
Primarily I want a descent card (for the $) that will not overheat my system.
There are a lot of 6600 cards out there. Some have 128mb or 256mb.
I am leaning toward the
CHAINTECH nVIDIA GeForce 6600 Video Card, 256MB DDR, 128-Bit, DVI/TV-Out, PCI-Express, Model "SE6600".Are there any others that I should consider?
- stantondan,I am running into the same problems you were with the X700 pro. I'm thinking of eBaying the ATI and picking up a 6600. Where did you get yours for $140? I can't return my x700, so I'll have to sell it and the going rate is ~$140-$150 on eBay.
stantondan
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Posted March 10th, 2005 01:00
i stole mine on Ebay. im not sure if that page will come up or not, but the final bid price was $102. Check out the seller, cool guy. He has others for sale too so check out the "view seller's other items" link near the right hand side.I love it, working absolutely great, no problems at all. So glad i made the change from that ATI card :ÞJust remember to download the latest Nvidia driver's from the website after you install from the CD.- Run a search for X700 and 4700 on the Dell forums and you'll find a lot of issues.For me, what was happening was on a cold boot, my system would hang after the Windows splash screen. I would get no signal to the monitor. I would then have to turn off power, reboot to safe mode, and then restart from there. I would get no problems from then on. If I turned the power off however and turned the computer on after that, I would run into the same problems.It's actually gotten a little worse recently. My system was doing the above for about 2 weeks, but the last 2 days, I've been getting some other types of errors. I think I'll most likely be eBaying the X700 soon and picking up the 6600.
stantondan
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Posted March 8th, 2005 20:00
I just got an eVGA Nvidia 6600 256mb PCIexpress for $140, i love it. I get 15fps better in CounterStrike Source and its a lot quieter than my old ATI 700pro 256mb PCIe ($200), which i had constant problems using with the 4700. It never installed correctly. Make sure to install the new driver's from Nvidia's website though too b/c you're prob using XP and it needs it to funcion 100%
My question is, i have 2 monitors...i want to be able to use 1 monitor to play a game and one that has my desktop, is this possible?