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Hey everyone. My first post on Legit Reviews. I've been frequenting the site a bit in the past few days. Well anyway on to my question. I purchased an MSI GeForce FX 5900XT about 8 months ago. At the time I did my research and it seemed like an awesome buy. Now a few months back I was looking into a video card for a friend of mine. I found the Geforce 6600GT. It was moderately priced and so I put the order through. When she got it I was blown away by how much better it performed then mine. BTW we have the same CPU and amount of RAM. Anyway I was just wondering if anyone knew if these 2 cards are really that much different. I spent around $190 on mine and she spent $140 on hers. Well that's it.

The GeForce 6 series is based off a newer core and most have newer types of memory (GDDR3) on them versus the FX series that you bought for yourself. It's fairly common these days to see a cheaper card come out that will perform as good or better than the more expensive one you bought just months before.

A really amazing card today is the 7600GT Our review of the XFX GeForce 7600 GT XXX showed awesome performance in a card that was priced at $209 + shipping.

A couple months later that $209 card can be bought for $159.99 after a $30 rebate (link) That XFX card is overclocked and is a very fast card for just taking something out of the box.

For $20 more than she spent on hers you could double the performance once again. Welcome to the forums!

Wow. Thanks for such a quick reply. I was looking at that review I believe. I just started a new job so I'm going to revamp my rig pretty damn soon. I'll be sure to drop a line here to make sure everything is up to par. I'm going to be going for an Athlon 64 and a PCI-e video card. But you'll be sure to see that thread in the coming weeks. Well thanks again for the info. I'm going to ninja her video card now.

nice nvidia comparison

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/132