The 8600GTS may score more on 3DMark06 than the 7900GS, but that's due to the shader processors that it has.

The 7900GS outperforms the 8600GTS in almost every single real world benchmark.

The 7900GS is only outperformed in shader-intensive games like Oblivion.

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2970&p=5

Part 2.

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2975&p=2

For some reason I can't get the HTML to work for the second link.. -_-

Hiryuu_

Im not sure about the other games but I noticed in that anandtech review it says 33fps for r6vegas with a 8600gts, My 8600gt is overclock pretty high but i get around an average of 43fps in r6vegas 1024x768 with everthing turned on and on max.

43fps outside (worst), in a tunnel or smaller rooms it goes way up to almost 90fps sometimes.

Edit: sorry 43fps with vsync, closer to 50fps(lowest) but hovers between 50-70fps on Average without vsync still hitting 90fps in smaller areas, I just noticed vsync does some weird stuff with this game, I dont recomend it.

maybe try updating the bios, and put 1gb in the first slot and 512 in the second.

And you could also try clearing the cmos after you insert the new stick.

[QUOTE="skinnypete91"]

Its not essential but it helps :)

Will you overclock?

Overclocking heats up the components so you are more likely to need it...

c02z

the main difference is the 680i can run both pci-e slots sli at 16x, but its overkill and doesn't result in any increase in performance, besides that i think the only difference is the 680i has a bigger feature set.

So what is the next series gonna be called, the Nvidia 10,800 GT's?

degobah77

When ATI was done with their 9000 series then went back to the hundreds (x300,x600,x800,x850)