Prolink PixelView GeForce 6600 Ultimate review

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Technical BlahblahThe card tested today as you have been able to observe will become available in 128 and 256 MB configurations, you'll likely go for the 256 MB version. Let's have a look at NVIDIA's GeForce Series 6 product line with the most important retail cards:

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Product Lineup Specifications

Product Name

# pixel processors

# vertex processors

Bus width

Memory Type/Amount

GPU Speed

RAM Speed

GeForce 6800 Ultra

16

6

256-bit

GDDR3/256MB

400MHz

1100MHz

GeForce 6800 GT

16

6

256-bit

GDDR3/256MB

350MHz

1000MHz

GeForce 6800

12

5

256-bit

GDDR/128MB

325MHz

700MHz

GeForce 6800 LE*

8

4

256-bit

GDDR/128MB

320MHz

700MHz

GeForce 6600 GT 8 3 128-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 500MHz 1000MHz
GeForce 6600 8 3 64/128-bit GDDR/128MB 300MHz 275(550)
GeForce 6200
4 3 64/128-bit GDDR/128MB/256MB 300MHz 275(550)

I started this article by stating "a product for any budget." As you can see from the table above, NVIDIA is rather happy with the Series 6 graphics processor, they announced Series 6 in April and look what is saturating the retail and OEM market already. Quite amazing.

As you have noticed, the GeForce 6600 GT cards come with a 500 MHz clock and memory rate, 128-bit (GDDR3, 128 MB) with a suggested price tag of $/EUR229. The standard GeForce 6600 will also come with that 128-bit bus (GDDR, 128/256 MB), will cost about $150 and has a way lower ~300 MHz core clock. The memory clock is something that can be decided by the manufacturer, however. You'll notice that this particular Prolink model has a 300 MHz core. The 6600 series have been proven to be extraordinary overclockers though, how does 550 MHz on the core sound? Well... you'll read all about it in the overclocking part.

The product

has 8 Pixel pipelines and 3 Vertex processors that are confirmed to be working 100% with Rivatuner. The 6600 series can write only four color pixels per clock and has a fragment crossbar. The NV43 does appear to have eight pixel shader/texture units, so its not an "8 x 1" design or a "4 x 1" design. It's more of a hybrid and works quite well.

Bundled Items
In the box, we see a real el cheapo bundle! It comes with... a driver CD. Seriously ForceWare (66.31 WHQL) drivers and DirectX 9.0c, that's it.

Next to the manual we can find a Composite output cable, your DVI to CRT/VGA adapter and something that I do like about the package, an output block for SVideo, Composite and component HDTV.

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The goods we can find inside the box.

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Here's that connector block I mentioned. Simply hook it up to the card and you have all your outputs ready to be used.

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