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ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
Name: melhoff13 Date: February 22, 2008 at 09:20:38 Pacific OS: XP/Vista CPU/Ram: 3.0 3GB Product: DELL
Comment:
DO NOT PURCHASE THIS VIDEO CARD...
You can search google if you are interested why. This card is horrible. If you are looking for a card in this performance range check out the new BFG NVIDIA 9600...which is what I replaced my HD 2600 with.
Name: jam Date: February 22, 2008 at 12:05:42 Pacific
Reply:
The 9600 is a better card, no doubt, but the 2600XT is far from horrible. It may not have been adequate for whatever it is you wanted to do with it, but that's not the card's fault, it's your fault for not doing your homework. The 2600XT is roughly comparable to the 8600GT.
Name: melhoff13 Date: February 22, 2008 at 12:27:18 Pacific
Reply:
I spent 3 weeks working with that 2600xt...I had 5 trips to micro center to exchange the cards for new ones....every card they gave me had some kind of problem. It had nothing to do with the actual performance of the card. I could never get the card to work. I popped that BFG in and all my problems went away. The 2600XT is unstable and ATI explained to me that they know of the 2600XT problems but they haven't been able to correct all of them yet...
ANYWAYS, be careful when looking into the 2600XT....
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Response Number 4
Name: Cobra_R Date: February 22, 2008 at 21:54:56 Pacific
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That's your opinion, but it's far from fact.
Who made the ATI 2600XT that you were using? Was it ATI or a 3rd party name?
I have setup a few 2600XT's and haven't had a single problem with it on any of the pc's I have built.
The 2600XT is a fine card for budget gaming.
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Response Number 5
Name: melhoff13 Date: February 23, 2008 at 05:04:36 Pacific
Reply:
Card was ATI (AMD). By the way, the ATI tech support fools told me it had something to do with my harware setup. He said (ATI AMD Tech) he was under the impression that the 2600XT didn't react well in a dual core enviornment....who knows...I am running a P4 Dual Core 3.0GHz with 3Gb of DDR2 on a Intel MoBod.
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