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What can you say about these numbers? Well, one thing's for sure: if you play a lot of Company of Heroes, you might want to look at a HD 2600 XT. However -- not to take too much from this fine card -- but I think the strong HD 2600 XT performance here has a lot to do with drivers. For the Vista/DX10 patch version of Company of Heroes anyways. But let's put the HD 2600 XT performance aside for a moment and look at these other numbers.

It pretty much boils down to this: BFG 8600 GTS OC2 Company of Heroes DX9 performance: solid. BFG 8600 GTS OC2 Company of Heroes DX10 performance: lackluster. 

Introducing the Lost Planet benchmark next...