>> Comparing your high-end 6-series to my low-end 200-series, we have:
>>
>>                     | GeForce 6600GT | GeForce GTX 260
>> Gigapixels / second |      2.000     |       16.128
>> Gigatexels / second |      4.000     |       36.864
>> Gigabytes  / second |     16.000     |      111.900
>>
>> The GeForce GTX 260 also generates approximately 715 gigaFLOPS peak 
>> processing power (single-precision only).
> 
>     <sniff> Don't do that to me. I'm sad now... <sniff>  :/

Heh. Well, yours is a 6-series. Then they made the 7-series. After that 
came the 8-series. Then there was the 9-series (which is really just 
rebadged versions of the 8-series - hence unpopular). Now we have the 
200-series. And... according to the numbers above, it's "only" 8x 
faster. 2004 for the 6-series, 2008 for the 200-series. So in 4 years, 
it's "only" got 8x faster. Ho hum!

Well, I guess if I feel rich enough I could always add a second GTX260 
at some point... I *do* have an SLI motherboard. >:-D

(No, seriously. I'm kidding. I really can't afford to do stuff like 
that. Besides, the CPU is old enough already...)

>> We shall see!
> 
>     You won't be disappointed! :)

I ****ing will if it doesn't work with my motherboard! o_O

(The card is PCI Express 2.0 - and I'm not sure that my motherboard is.)

If not then I guess I'll be replacing the entire PC rather than just the 
graphics card... but let's hope not, eh?

>      When will you get the 260? Today?

I bought it using the super-hyper-ultra-mega-saver delivery option. 
So... next week? Maybe?

(It's daft really; if you want it tomorrow, gotta pay lots of money. But 
if you go with the cheap delivery option, often it arrives the next day 
*anyway*! :-P But we'll see...)

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