How is this card???

My friend want to buy a card
he is planing to buy...

XFX Geforce 8600GTS 256MB DDR3 PCI-Express

I want to know that is this card a good choice???
will game run at high settings???
how is performance as compared to
XFX 8600GT 256MB DDR3

Yes the video card is very well suited for your AMD Athlon motherboard as well as your specification is perfect in order to make this card work perfectly

With unparalleled graphics realism and game performance, it'll be hard to deny the existence of the perfect graphics card. Along with unsurpassed PC movie quality, XFX GeForce 8600 GTS delivers a praise-worthy combination of stability and power that is hard to believe.

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will game run at high settings???

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The GeForce 8600: DX10 hardware for the masses

With DX10 games right around the corner, gamers looking to upgrade for these games haven’t had many options, particularly if you’re on a budget. The only real semi-inexpensive option up to this point has been the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, but with a $300 MSRP, it’s not exactly what many would call an economical upgrade. The real sweet spot of the mainstream segment is the $150-$200 price point.

To service this market, NVIDIA has developed a new line of GPUs: the GeForce 8600 and GeForce 8500, which are based on NVIDIA’s new G84 and G86 graphics cores. NVIDIA has incorporated many of the key technologies already found in GeForce 8800 into the GeForce 8600 and GeForce 8500, only they’ve been tweaked to be cheaper to produce. In fact, thanks to a tweaked video processing engine which offloads more fuctions, the new GPUs reduce CPU utilization for H.264 movies, allowing them to play back Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies without needing a high-end CPU.