i have no real way of telling wether my card is underperforming or whether the A6600 is just crap, perhaps somebody could give me thier opinion on what it should be able to comfortably run
Well, I had a PNY 6600 with a 300W, and it would start up in Windows, but the second you went into a game, it would crash. I'm thinking 300W is not enough. What kind of games are you playing, and what FPS are you getting?
well i played HL2 and i tended to get about 10 - 15 FPS unless it was a particularly low-detail scene, and also i recently tried Empire at War, which despite having low specs still runs slow, about 10-15 fps.
I was also surpirsed to find games like Dawn of War, which are also relatively low-spec running slow.