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lol u judge the mid-high end video cards too harshly. once u try them and realise how powerful they are, they can become addictive and u start to forget and forgive the heat and noise emissions.

btw, the heat and noise problem is the fault of the video card manufacturer for not being skilful enuff to come up with a better and quieter heatsink and fan solution. for example, if u look at arctic cooling's range of video card coolers, they are both silent and cool very well. therefore, the heat and noise problem is not the fault of the video card being "high-end".

for comparison, the 9600gt is around 2.5 times faster than the 8600gt and over 4 times faster than the gt610.

being able to play with good graphic detail settings helps with the immersion factor when gaming. seeing pixelated textures and blocky object models is just a turn off when gaming.

also, i dont recommend u buy the newer cards if u just play ds2 on that ds2 machine as the system details.gas file can be a nightmare to update with the newer cards.

however, i do not know what u are talking about lack of drivers for win2k and winxp unless u require some custom drivers... or u are talking about further graphic driver updates.

if u just play ds2 on that pc, u do NOT need to keep updating your drivers. the ds series of games are NOT stressful on the gpu so updating the drivers for better performance is a moot point. i do not know where u read or who started that nonsense about keeping video card drivers up to date for playing old games/software. just read the warning i posted about the latest 320.18 forceware drivers killing cards.

ngohq has got a huge collection of drivers from both nvidia and ati/amd and even some lesser known video card makers as well as dinosaur drivers for conventional pci and agp cards. so if u ever have to reformat your pc, u know where to look to find that fav old driver that u like...