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Originally Posted by Solaris17
Thats fine. Ill just say i disagree and that I dont give 2 shits what w1zzard said.
either way he needs a new card and the CPU is fine.
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Which part do you disagree with?
If you don't care for W1zzard, most other reviews say the same.
AnandTech
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The bottom line is that the 8600 really doesn't offer what we would expect from a next generation midrange part. While on its own the 8600 series is not bad hardware, NVIDIA needs to rely on more than its feature set to sell its product.
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NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 GTS and GT simply do not perform any better than similarly priced hardware from AMD. GeForce 7 Series hardware priced at $150 and $200 also performs similarly to G84 based parts, outperforming the newcomer in some games and tying or trailing in others.
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Techspot
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We will say it upfront, we are not impressed with the new GeForce 8600 series and while admittedly expectations were set high, it is hard to be pleased with the performance of these new graphics cards. This is not to say the new 8600 GTS and GT graphics cards are pathetic and should be avoided like the plague. Realistically speaking, these are good products despite of being disappointing considering what they could have been.
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F.E.A.R, Prey, and a few others based on the Doom 3 engine, play quite poorly on the new 8600 graphics cards. Given the 8600 GTS costs more than the Radeon X1950 Pro and GeForce 7900 GS, you would expect equal to or greater than performance in these games
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The question still remains, should you spend $200 on an 8600 GTS or $160 on a previous generation 7900 GS? Currently, with the games I'm playing, the 7900 GS is a much better option.
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As it stands the 8600 GT is almost useless in my opinion, and had it been called the 8600 GS it would be a worthy successor of the 7600 GS instead
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/2218/6
http://www.techspot.com/review/51-nv...600/page7.html
Lets put our pride aside here. The 8600 series was slower than the 79xx series and costed more. Yes it had DX10 support but back then there was few DX games available and the card was too slow to play games in DX10 mode anyways. Bottom line is the card sucked.
To add some balance the ATI 2600 series also sucked back in 2006.