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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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Benchmarking
I will be benchmarking with Half-Life 2, FarCry 1.3, Unreal Tournament 2004, 3DMark03, and 3DMark05. The following is a listing of the demos that were used for each game benchmark. Half-Life 2: Hardware OC Coast, Unreal Tournament 2004: dm-rankin, as-convoy, br-colossus (averaged together), FarCry 1.3: BenchemallDefaultDemo. The first set of benchmarks will use no anti aliasing and no anisotropic filtering and the second will use 4x anti aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering. For the remainder of the review anti aliasing will be referred to as AA and anisotropic filtering will be referred to as AF.
Test Bed:Gigabyte K8NS ProAMD Athlon 64 3200+Corsair TWINX1024-3200LLChaintech GeForce 6600GTVantec Stealth 470w PSUPlextor PX-708A60GB Seagate Barracuda IV hard driveWindows XP SP2, DirectX 9c, Nvidia 66.93 drivers
Half-Life 2 is obviously one of if not the most anticipated game of the year and now that its here it may be time for an upgrade. As you can see the 5700 Ultra suffers even at 1024x768 and obviously wouldn't be playable. With the 6600GT the FPS skyrockets and remains high even at 1600x1200.
With FarCry the 5700 Ultra really suffers even at 1024x768. I know from personal experience that while playing FarCry there are parts where it gets really choppy. When I actually play the game I have to turn all of the quality settings to low so that I am able to play. With this 6600GT you can see that there are no problems, even at 1600x1200 it shouldn't get choppy. I also played FarCry with this card and it was so much better, I was even able to set everything to high and throw in some AA and AF.
Unreal Tournament isn't as graphically intensive as Half-Life 2 or FarCry so the results are much better for both cards. Both cards performed really well with all of the resolutions but the 6600GT did do much better with each resolution.
3DMark03 is a synthetic benchmark made by Futuremark as you probably already know. This benchmark runs a series of simulated game tests and gives you a score based on the performance. The 6600GT gives you a considerable boost in score, especially at the default setting of 1024x768.
3DMark05 is the successor to 3DMark03 and throws much more at your video card than 3DMark03 does. With the 5700 Ultra none of the scores break 1000 which is very low in comparison to this 6600GT. With all of the resolutions the score is far above 100 and gets almost 3000 3DMarks at the default 1024x768.
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