| Jan 19, 2005 |
Overclocking and Conclusion
Overclocking
With stock cooling, this card easily clocked from 500MHz core, 1.0GHz memory to 570MHz core 1.15GHz at an average of 8% performance gains in all tests.
Conclusion
With the availability of Nvidia's 6800 series and ATI's X800 series in serious doubt recently, most users looking to upgrade their graphics cards have been left with 2 options. One, wait until your backorder is filled, or two, keep your current card until Nvidia and ATI work out the bugs in their supply system. However, now there is a third option, the 6600GT. This card consistently outperforms all previous generation cards in newer games and is by no means weak in comparison to its older sibling the 6800 series. In its PCI Express form, this card will allow users to have relatively inexpensive SLI rigs more than capable of equaling and even besting current High End models. Anyone using a previous generation card looking for the best upgrade they can buy dollar for dollar, the 6600GT at its low price point wins hands down.
Pros
- Affordable
- Nice Software Bundle
- Good Overclocker
- Available in AGP and PCI-X
- Dual DVI outputs
- S-Video out
Cons
- Better game titles needed in bundle
- DirectX 8 performance could be better
- 128bit memory interface
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