I had an 8600GT and went to an 8800GT - world of difference. The 8500/8600 cards are really not worth the money these days (any amount of money). And they should really never have been called gaming cards in the first place as they came out behind the technology curve to begin with.
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My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330),
sank U257 on 02/24/1944
running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1
ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD
Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU
BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD
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