The reference memory speed for the 8600GT is 700MHz DDR, or 1.4 GHz
effective. A 57% memory speed decrease is pretty severe. The memory chips
are exposed on your card, right? What latency are the chips rated for?

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I wonder how much performance hit the Sparkle card would suffer
compared to other high memory clock frequency card if it is only
600MHz to start with?