erm... u referring to 8600gt? how on earth an 8600gt can reach 80C
my used to be galaxy OC ed. one also max on 60C only

then i got nothing to say, that XFX is indeed a rubbish

last time i saw Colorful website, apart from Colorful 8600GT UE, they also came out with 8600GTS, i was like wtf

the UE is actually a GTS, the attractive is its price point which is on par with regular 86GT. Galaxy GT OC cant match this UE, and it can't OC properly because it has reached its limit for not having external PCI-e power supply

8600GT isnt suitable for silent heat pipe lah

silent heat pipe cards isn't suitable for heavy gaming cards actually, for those simpler cards like 7100gs, 8400gs or 8500gt then silent pipe is ok, but not for 8600gt and above, where people will use them more on gaming.

that 8600GT UE is actually consider cheap liao
back in may i bought the galaxy OC ed. at rm530
then sell it at rm 430 in june
now the new one merely sold from rm460

but one thing is unfair now, why 8600 GTS and above don;t suffer from major price drop ? 8800GTS still rm1k +

but will the 8600 UE to outperform 7900GS/X1950Pro in most dx9 games? Thats the thing i want to know the most, although 3dmarks score is favor to 8600, but that doesn't mean its superior than 7900s in gaming

as for dx10 games, heck everything is so speculated

seriously changine from GTS to GTX now isn't a wise move, (unless u re really really loaded lor )
expect 2nd gen batch of nvidia 8900 or 9xxx series to be out later in the year, with probably dx10.1 support. GTS is overkill enough for most of the dx9 games on the market, furthermore ur gaming resolution which is 22" can be handled perfectly by just 320MB already

here is some comparison pics from Bioshock
DX9 vs DX10
the differences are very subtle
http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:IAenFj...lient=firefox-a
http://sheogorad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15&page=2