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 Gigabyte GeForce 6600 GT review

 By: Hilbert Hagedoorn Edited by  | Published: November 12, 2004  


Copyright Guru3D.com 2004The Verdict
Well, I still say that the GeForce 6600 series offers surprisingly good value for your money, the GT versions however bring you a little bit of supplementary magic. It's like having a little bit of reserve for the more heavy tasks and/or AA and AF settings. In the end the 6600 GT is the best product to buy in the mid-range segment of the graphics market as it is today. Next to that you have the option of scalability with SLI. If you have the right mainboard and in a year or two you are getting limited by 3D graphics' processing essentially you can double your performance by combining your PC with two 6600 GT's.

Within that mid-range market this product is priced a bit too much on the high side though. This product should come down towards ~ 175 /EUR/USD before you really can call it mid-range. But Gigabyte made the 200 USD purchase a hell-uv-alot more interesting by including Doom 3, which by itself costs 40-50 bucks. The entire package is just fantastic in any possible way. Great GPU versus feature set, really splendid performance, nice and noiseless cooling, sparkling sharp 2D and 3D, included S-Video/HDTV block and of course that software bundle simply justifies the purchase of this product beyond any other 6600 we recently reviewed. That's if you have ~200 buck to spare of course.

Since it's included, let's talk about Doom3. At a screen resolution of 1024x768 you'll be able to play this new title at high quality settings with an average of 74 Frames per second, at 1600x1200 it still plays at 43 FPS, that's just staggering!

Halo: Combat Evolved at that same 10x7 resolution manages to squeeze out 69 FPS. Even Far Cry at the highest possible Image Quality setting did 55 FPS. If that isn't value for you money then I'm lost.

If you can't afford a high-end product, then this card is a marvelous piece of hardware to own. You'll be in love with it and I simply have zilch negative to say about it, period.

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Product: GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB GDDR3
Series: GV-NX66T128D-3
More info: Gigabyte
MSRP: 199 USD
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