Those were with old ass launch drivers, the 5.10s which had official (afaik) x1600 support didnt come out for a while later. Here's a much better example: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/games-2005.html It got completely murdered in bf2, cod2, fear, and splinter cell. The other...
the x1600xt is actually a good bit faster than a 6600gt. However, stick with the x800xl. If your x800xl is dead go with a x850xt for $199, perf cant be beat for the price. If you like NV go with a 6800gs for about $180
you defy benchmarks at every single hardware site there is :p can someone please answer my question? Would a single pci-e slot mobo be capable of using one of these for sli goodness on 1 slot?
yes it does. If you read the thread at AT you would see he previously said temp is linearly related to expected life time of a transistor and voltage is ^2 related. :p