I now am the proud owner of a 6600GT..
One thing to say

WOW

The scores I have managed to get on 3DMark03 absolutely blew away my 9800XT

9800XT was 4078
and the
6600GT was 8315 ! http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4361128




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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.
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.
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?

{SFU} Jackyl

MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR
Athlon XP2500
ATI Radeon 9800 pro ------ replaced by MSI NX6600/256 stupid me
1gb Geil DDR 3200 DC