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Thanks.

I was planning on just holding out with the 7600GT but I can probably get at least $100.00 for it on eBay. It's been a great card and I highly recommend it to anyone. FarCry with HDR was astonishing and it handled F.E.A.R and the Prey Demo quite well but I want to try Oblivion and the 7600GT doesn't fair too well there. The X1800XT was the best card I could afford that would allow it. Besides, since my last two cards have been nVidia's, I figured it was time to give ATI a spin again.

8O. 128-bit GDDR3 memory on a $48 card! And it even has heatsinks on the memory (this is a big deal to me because my crappo X600 has no VRAM heatsinks)!

Well guys--I just bought one. Question for Cleeve (or whomever wishes to answer): Should I just use it in my parent's PC, or do you think there's a chance it will best the suckey Inno3d card in my sig? Can't find a benchmark comparing the plain 6600 to the x700 pro at the moment...

well, if you look at the vga charts here on Tom's the vanilla 6600 loses more than it wins. When it wins, it is by a small margin. (ie. quake4) but when it loses it loses big. (serious sam 2) The x700 they have there is a 256 meg version but the core/mem speeds look close enough to get an idea.

of course, if yours is a 6600gt then keep it... if it is not, then you may see better performance on the 700. JMO of course, others may dissagree.

I'd try it in your rig first; it's faster than your 6600, and it should overclock well with that GDDR3 memory.

And for $51 more than that X700Pro:
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I actually just ordered a brand new 7600GT today. I'm jumping from an ATI 9550, so the improvement should be amazing. It's good to see comments like this about a card you bought!

9550???? That's an AGP card. I hope you've bought a PCI-E motherboard to go along with that 7600GT.

You won't be disappointed. It's an excellent card for the money these days.

No worries, my last upgrade included changing MBs to the ASRock 939Dual SATA. It has both an AGP and PCI-Express, and it doesn't lost speed on either one. However, I'll probably just see about disabling the AGP slot completely once the new card is confirmed as running well. I've been researching a new card for a while now (month or two) and everywhere says that the 7600GT gives a lot for the money.

Yup, the ASROCK model board you have shouldn't disappoint...it's relatively cheap price is definately not because it has cheap components. I do advise getting a chipset fan if you plan to overclock though...

The only thing I would change in this list right now is utterly remove the 400-500$ segment in PCI-Express. There is no point recommending the 7900GTX and X1900XTX when a X1900XT at 100$ less will do just as well, if not better (than the 7900GTX). Of course, these cards are the best in their price range; but that price range is not recommendable, as the 200+$ price range is not recommendable in AGP.

Oh, I am getting the 7600 GT for sub-$150. I paid $161, but I've got a $30 rebate to send in. I know this isn't enough to move the card just yet, but I suspect that time is will be soon.

Actually, according to HKEPC the 7600GT is going to move into the $130 Retail category. I think it will pretty much pwn anything in that price range when it does.

Cleeve - amazing post - well done

Maybe add this link into it at the bottom so noobs like me can find good comparisons:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/graphics/charts.html

It's the THW interactive bit. I love it. It's better than sex.

u have no x1900gt or 7950gx2.. itd be nice to see em up