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Greetings everyone,
I just bought an MSI Nvidia NX6600/256 video card to replace my ATI Radeon
9800 pro 128. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!!

It will be, dickhead. You bought a 6600, not a 6600GT. It's about 2/3
of the speed.

I read all the reviews on neweggs site about it, and, it had nothing but
rave reviews OVER the 6600GT which had mostly bad reviews.
Is there something I'm missing here?

Yeah, two letters G T.

All the reviews said they had an "out
of the box" improvement over their prior cards, however, my benchmarks in
aquamark3d and 3dmark dropped by like ohhhhhhh 3,000 points yes, that's not
a typo thats threee thousand points. I even tried using the coolbits, and
the overclocking tab in the Nvidia settings windows to no avail......
Is this just a POS compared to the 9800 pro? Am I missing something or doing
something wrong? I have always been an NVidia kinda guy, but jumped ship
with the 9800 pro because it was "the best" back when..... and, I assumed
that the 6600 would at least be a step up from it, especially with 256mb of
memory.

You assumed wrong.

After 5 hours of having the card I'm ready to bite the $27 restocking fee
and return it, and get something different.
Any ideas?

BUY A ****ING 6600GT. You read the reviews of the GT then went and
bought a plain 6600. That's about as clever as reading reviews of a
9800 Pro then going and buying a 9800SE and complaining that it isn't
as quick.


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