Package and Accessories

The brown-colored package looks exactly like the box of the single Leadtek WinFast PX6600 GT TDH.

There’s no mention anywhere that this is a kit of two graphics cards. The NVIDIA SLI label was present on the box with a single WinFast PX6600 GT TDH, too. Leadtek decided just to double the accessories, so besides the two WinFast PX6600 GT TDH graphics cards we have all things in pairs here:

• Two multilingual installation guides
• Two user manuals
• Two universal splitters (YPbPr, S-Video, RCA)
• Two DVI-I-to-D-Sub adapters
• Two CDs with drivers and software
• Two copies of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
• Two copies of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

We already wrote about the advantages of the universal video splitter from Leadtek in our review called Leadtek WinFast PX6600 GT TDH Graphics Card Review ?it is easier to connect to various display devices like TV-sets, projectors and plasma panels with this splitter than with ordinary adapters. The accessories are sufficient. You receive everything necessary to successfully install and use the Leadtek WinFast PX6600 GT TDH SLI kit.

A SLI adapter that would connect the two cards is missing among the accessories, and for good reason. The fact is different models of SLI-compatible mainboards have the PCI Express x16 slots at a different distance from each other, so there just can’t be a universal SLI adapter suitable for all mainboards. For example, an adapter that suits the ASUS A8N-SLI will not work on the MSI K8N Diamond just because the PCI Express x16 slots are much closer to each other on the latter mainboard. So, it is the mainboard that must include a SLI adapter as an accessory rather than the graphics card, and there’s nothing wrong that the Leadtek kit doesn’t has one.