Reply 20 of 102, by F2bnp
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wrote:wrote:Did you have the DDR2 variant by any chance? I had one and, yes, that thing is pretty slow. The true non-cheapo 8600 with GDDR3 memory was supposed to be decent, but I never had one of those.
The problem was NV initially wanted $250+ for these chips that were about 1/4 an 8800GTX. The initial D3D10 midrange chips were just a rip off. Radeon HD 3800 and GeForce 9600 were much better.
True. The 8600 were not the great mid-range parts that the 6600GT and 7600GS/GT were. 7600 GT was usually faster or on par with the 6800GT AFAIR, 8600GT couldn't touch the 7800GT, let alone the 7800GTX/7900GT/GTX.
The 9600 GT was really nice, fast and inexpensive, I upgraded a friend's Core2Duo at the time, he really wanted to play Call of Duty 4 and 5 and the 9600GT was a great deal for my budget-minded friend.