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Nvidia 6600 GT AGP Roundup
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Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT
The Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT featured a Cooler Master branded cooler that is smaller than the standard NVIDIA reference design. Unfortunately, its petite size was partially responsible for the extremely noisy and high-pitched whine that the cooler produced and it easily scored one of the lowest for our noise evaluation comparison. As per the reference design, the cooler may seem to cover a fair bit of the 2.0ns Samsung memory chips but it does not help in cooling them. Despite that, Inno3D has shipped their card with a higher than default memory speed of 500 MHz (1.0GHz DDR), making it similar, on paper at least, to the Gigabyte GV-N66T128D that we saw earlier.
A look at the packaging and graphics card. |
The Cooler Master branded cooler is smaller than those found on typical GeForce 6600 GT cards. |
Despite the branded cooler, the Inno3D card is not as quiet as we hoped. Nor did it get top marks for cooling. |
The software and accessories are nothing to get excited about, but at least it matched some of its peers in this department. You get a single game, DVD creation and playback applications, a DVI to VGA adaptor, and a S-Video to Composite cable for those whose television lack a S-Video connector. A copy of 3DMark05 is also included, though that is of limited value to most consumers as it is not even the professional version. The complete inventory is as follows:
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3DMark05 (Freeware version)
Driver CD (Includes WinDVD, WinDVD Creator)
Inno3D GeForce User Manual
DVI-to-VGA adaptor
S-Video to Composite cable
For the accessories, we found the usual suspects. |
A last look at the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT. |
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