Retail Geforce 6600GT Exploration

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• princethorpe - Wednesday, May 4, 2005 - link

  I've been checking the various forums and found thisone on the 6600gt's excellent. I don't know if anyone else has found them but Asus are making these cards and do a faster than standard model by using faster memory they recon according to their site they run 10% faster than the standard. I've ordered the Asus board by preference because of the build quality

• GollumSmeagol - Monday, May 2, 2005 - link

  I came across a forum a few months ago here in Hungary, and the people were talking about Leadtek's 6600GTs being faulty/freezing. Strange enough, a few weeks later, the main distributor of Leadtek, took off 6600GTs from their pricelists on the web. Wonder if they are waiting for a bugfix, or simply ran out of stock and wait for the next shipment.
  
  Another beauty I've just came across, is Gigabyte's TurboForce edition, which is a slightly overclocked version of the 6600 series (both PCI-Ex and AGP 8x). I'm shopping for a SILENT AGP one, (that's where I came across this review), and found this beauty
  
  http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-...
  
  This one has sg. they call Silent-Pipe as a cooler. Not much specs on Gigabyte's page, but from the picture, it looks like there is no fan at all, just a huge copper(-colored?) heatsink, that covers about 2/3rd of the card. (Well, a Zalman FB123 could still be used to move some air)
  The memory clock is wrote to be 1120MHz (remember, TurboForce), plus when I zoomed in on to the box picture, I could spot "VIVO" written on the box. This is also supported by the info on the local dealer's page, where they say "Y" to the TV-OUT of the regular GV-N66T128D, but they say "IN/OUT" for the GV-N66T128VP. All this for roughly 20 USD extra (local price).

• dpp - Saturday, November 19, 2005 - link

  I've bought http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-...">Gigabyte GV-NX66T128VP (TurboForce, no fan at all)
  Start up temperature 52C, maximum 65C.
  Is that normal?

• ylp88 - Monday, April 18, 2005 - link

  I found the article quite informative. Thank you. I purchased two Palit 6600GT cards a week ago and have put them in SLI mode.
  
  I have a few questions/comments:
  1) The Palit overview is rather short compared to the others. The Palit card is also never mentioned on the last page. Is there a reason for this?
  2) The Palit cards I got DO NOT have memory heatsinks as indicted on the photo for the Palit card. The memory remins cool, however.
  
  Thanks again for the article.
  
  ylp88

• zexe - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link

  Do not go for XFX 6600GT !!!!
  The card is NOT longer equipped with 1.6ns
  The chips on my card are Samsung K4J55323QF-GC20
  THAT MEANS 2.ms !!!

• zexe - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - link

• marketmuse - Friday, April 1, 2005 - link

  does anyone know the difference between the Leadtek A6600GT and PX6600GT, besides the PCI-E and AGP?
  
  I'm looking to purchase a A6600GT, but I don't know if it will have the same performance as the PX version.
  
  Thanks
  MM

• Monypennyuk - Monday, March 14, 2005 - link

  Hello all.
  
  WOW a great review site.:)
  
  Just one problem. I was having problems deciding between two of these cards on the ebuyer.co.uk site.
  
  PNY Verto GeForce 6 6600GT AGP8x £119
  
  or
  
  Inno 3D 128MB GeForce 6600 GT 8xAGP TV-Out DVI DirectX9 £116
  
  This review does not mention the PNY version. although i now notice that they have the LEADTEK at about the same price. Going by these comments i GUESS i should get the LEADTEk??? Anyone know about the PNY cos my mate rekons thats the better one...
  
  Leadtek Winfast Geforce 6600 Gt128mb Ddr3 Agp Dvi-i Tv-out £117.
  
  Any help much appreciated.
  
  A
  
  

• BlackMamba - Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - link

  #75: That link to MSI is for the AGP version (note the sink for the bridge chip).
  
  Not sure if they've fixed the problems with the PCI-E version, and would also like to know.

• JensErik - Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - link

  Looking at the pictures of the MSI card in the review and the pics at MSI's page it seems that MSI has changed the a lot on their card, including the HSF.
  
  (Check it out here: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/vga/vga/pro...
  
  Does anyone know if this has solved the HSF mounting problem encountered in the test??