I`m in a real pickle .. plz help

Since both cards offer nearly identical performance, get the x800GTO. A similar 6600GT heatpipe card was reviewed on this site and it got HOT... the temp reached 92C!!! And you can't OC a fanless card that well.

Either way, you'll see a huge performance increase over that 9600XT with both cards.

-mpjesse

well sadly i`ve had to change my mind as the x800 i was looking at was out of stock and i found a better 6600 series card or at least i think i have if anyone can look for me that would be great.

Now i looked on the giga-byte site and it claimed that this card i have found has a core clock of 500Mhz and a Memory Clock of 1120mzh which i thought was very very high but it only has 128mb which for me doesn`t seem to much when you think i`ve been using 256mb on my card anyways take a look and tell me what you think

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/pro [...] _uid=92137

6600GT, Despite having 128MB RAM, is much faster than the 9600XT - especially at higher resolutions..

I'm running the AGP 8x Gigabyte card and I'm very impressed with the performance increase over my old Radeon 9600.
My 6600's clocked at 500 MHz Core & 1000 MHz Memory. I've run it safely at 550 / 1100 with no artifacting or anything... I'm sure there's a lot more to come from this card with the right cooling - just too lazy to play with it.