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Chaintech GeForce 6600 GT AGP Review
[Abstract]
OverclockingI needed to add the coolbits registry hack to my system before I could adjust the speed of the card. With it added I started overclocking the card from its stock speed of 500MHz cor...
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The Card
The box for this GeForce 6600GT is pretty extravagant and shiny. The front sports a warrior looking guy and also tells you that a full version of Painkiller is included within. The back of the box has a lot of specifications and features of the card so you know what it can do.
This video card comes with a good amount of accessories and software. The accessories included are a S-Video Cable (150cm), S-Video to HDTV Cable, DVI to VGA Adapter, and Y-Molex adapter. The bundled software titles are WinDVD 5 (6 Channel), WinDVD Creator 2, WinRip 2.1, Adobe Photoshop Album 1.0, Home Theater 2.1 Lite, DVD Copy 2 Lite, Game pack (5 demos), and Painkiller (Full version) and the driver CD of course.
The card has a bright blue PCB and uses a different heatsink design from Nvidia's reference design. The benefit to this heatsink design is hopefully better cooling than the Nvidia reference one could produce. Although the 6600 series of video cards was originally only for PCI-Express they were recently adapted for AGP use, thus the AGP connection.
The card has a DVI, VGA, and HDTV & TV-out (Mini Din 10pin S-Video) connector so you can use this card with just about any display out there. The card also requires a 4-pin Molex connection to provide extra power that the AGP slot cant muster up.
I removed the heatsink to find that a good amount of thermal compound was used on the 6600GT core. There is also a HSI (High Speed Interconnect) like the early PCI-Express video cards used. This HSI translates the information so that it can be transmitted through the AGP bus since the core was originally designed for PCI-Express. This card has 128MB of memory and uses Samsung K4J55323QF-GC16 GDDR3 chips. The memory is rated for 600MHz (1200MHz DDR) operation which is 100MHz faster than the card is clocked at. This 100MHz will allow you to easily overclock the memory to 600MHz and hopefully a little faster. Interestingly enough these chips are rated for 256-bit operation however the card is rated for 128-bit.
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