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thanks :)
Its not as good as the 6600GT but its about 50-ish cheaper, and still runs games okay. I'm running WoW at 1600x1200 with most details on and still getting 45ish fps, and 45ish with good settings on CS:S.
Not saying its the best card any more, but its about the best for less than £100
Amount of memory is only one small thing.
You have too be looking into memory bandwidth, number of pixel pipelines, number of vertex shaders, the ability of the core itself etc etc.
If you look for benchmarks you'll see that it's not a very fast card.
If you want a cheap upgrade you'd be better off going for one of the older top range cards like the Radeon 9800 Pro, or if you want to stick with nvidia nothing less than a 6600.
Have you had a read through your motherboard manual to check that it doesn't do 8x anyway?