[ryo_saeba]

Helo guys.
Recently i'm thingking of upgrading my graphic card.
Here's my curent system:

AthlonXP 3000+ 2,16Ghz 333Mhz FSB
ECS KT600-A
1GB memory DDR 2700
80Gb SATA seagate barracuda 7200
ATI radeon 9200se 128mb AGP8x
WinXP SP2 dual boot Win98SE

I'm really excited with the 6600GT series, from what i hear it's best price + perfomance balance is good. Not so expensive yet good perfomance.
But the reason why i wanna bought this card is for the upcoming PS2 emulator actually :heh:
I'm not really in for PC games, as i have a PS2 here.
Well, but sometimes i play a few good games like HL2.
So i don't really cares about the perfomance on PC titles.
What brought me into consideration is whether it's good for running the next generation emulator & games smoothly when the emu is ready/comeout.
So i wanna hear u guys opinions bout this.
Does the 6600GT powerful enought to run the upcoming PS2 emulator & play the games smoothly with my current spec? Or event a GameCube/Xbox emulator maybe?
I ask this becos all the benchmark/review I saw never included the card perfomance for emulator, so i can't really tell.
So i think u guys here that have a lot of experience with emu can help. :thumb:

 

[mg2]

There are currently no system requirements for the next generation emulators (PCSX2, Dolwin, etc.) No one knows if the 6600GT will be powerful enough.

 

[Foxfyre]

If your asking about emulation, who knows if a 6600GT will be good enough or not? For all current (pre PS2) emulation, a 6600GT is MORE than enough. I also have as yet to see a PC game that a 6600GT can't aptly handle either...

 

[ChrisRay]

Personally. If I were concerned about emulation. I would get a 256 meg card. Likely the data will be rendered on framebuffer similar to PS1 emulation and you should probably go for something a little bigger. However thats pure speculation. Not like emulation has gone anywhere wild this past year.

 

[fivefeet8]

Emulation generally needs more CPU power than GPU power.

 

[ChrisRay]

Emulation generally needs more CPU power than GPU power.

But it does require a generally optimal amount of framebuffer space.