Vid Card Comparisons

[T-Bone193]

I just purchased an Novatech radeon 9600 256 MB Graphics card shown here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814166005
I am not to impressed and am thinking about returning it. I was looking into these two cards, will you please compare them with eachother and with what i just bought and give me your overall opinion on it. Thanks.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102524

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814125124

 

[Counter-Strike]

9600XT, it has 500mhz clock speed compared to SE's 325mhz. Other than that they look the same, just the 9600XT has a higher clock speed

 

[T-Bone193]

Does the clock speed make all the difference? I mean will that 9600 XT be better than my 256 9600?

 

[Counter-Strike]

The 9600XT can render textures faster, but the 9600 has a bigger bandwidth, so it can render bigger textures, but at a slower pace. Depends on what you want to play with it.