why does the 8600gts suck

[cougarman]

I bought the nvidia 8600gts with 256mb of ram. I need to upgrade it but the specs are good but i was looking at a comparision and it compares worse then most of the lower 7000 series. Anyone know why. Should i check out EVGA's new 512mb version or try to get enough money to buy an 8800 which i dont even know if it will fit in my shuttle.

[JLK03F150]

What are the rest of your PC's spec's? Could be the CPU/RAM are bottlenecking the 8600. Could also be driver related, spyware/virus, etc...

[SoloCamo]

What do you mean?

Numbers do little for different series of cards. Higher clock speeds of different cards does not mean the higher clocked one is faster.

For example, what card are you comparing it too?

Also, the 512mb is no better than the 256mb version of the 8600gts. Oh and the 8800's most likely will not fit into that shuttle, let alone work on it's psu limit.

[cougarman]

Shuttle SD39P2
i have a intel core 2 duo E6600 2.4ghz
2 gigs ddr2 800mhz corsair xms 2 ram.
400 gig sata hdd
the 8600GTS 256mb PCI-E
running windows XP sp2

[uethello]

Do you have a link for that comparison?