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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!!!!!!
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.

A 6600 is going to be significantly slower than a 6600GT, there's no
getting around it. Who is giving bad reviews to 6600GT cards?

Is there something I'm missing here? 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.

Slower cards often come with more RAM, often as a marketing gimmick -
since the required RAM is slower, it doesn't cost as much to inflate the
RAM. It's not really going to improve performance much.

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

Sounds like a plan to me..

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