| cheers if i go for the 6800 it would have to be the bottom end jobie
due to economic situation
after a bit of research it seems that the top of the range 6600 (the gt model) is a quicker card than the low end 6800
just to confuse me further it turns out that a lot of the cards that they sell as low end 6800 are infact full spec fast as you like 6800's with 4 of the pipe lines disabled. and for the sake of 20 mins of messing about with um these extra pipe lines can be unlocked | 
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