I work at besy buy and ill tell you one thing about retail FX cards....they are marketed based on TEXTURE RAM. Everybody and their sister comes in telling me they need a 128MB card, or their eyes light up when they see the FX5200 256MB PCI cards for about $120. Very few people realize how graphics cards work, they just look at bigger numbers. Its hard convincing someone that vRAM has almost nothing to do with performance. Thats how these cards sell. Loads of ram, cheap chipsets, and marketing to the idiots out there who dont ask questions.
"Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my drive?"
P4 3.0 HT, Intel D865GBF, 512MB Crucial PC3200 DDR, WD 36GB Raptor 10,000RPM, BBA Radeon 9600PRO