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NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT Roundup. Round II: AGP

Test configuration

For NVIDIA cards we used the most recent ForceWare 71.24 drivers, and for ATI cards - Catalyst 4.12 WHQL.

Synthetic benchmarks

Gaming benchmarks

OpenGL tests

Overclocking

In overclocking, as usual, we used Riva Tuner. With additional blowing of cards by the PC housing fan and through replacing the standard thermal interface with "Alsyl-3", we were able to attain the following results for each of the cards under benchmarking:

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	GeForce 6600GT in the make of Gigabyte, Galaxy, and Leadtek Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT, Galaxy GeForce 6600GT, and Leadtek A6600 GT TDH Synthetic benchmarks, gaming applications, OpenGL tests, overclocking Final Words Top Stories: MoBo: ECS X58B-A (Intel X58) ASUS Rampage II Extreme (Intel X58) MSI DKA790GX and ECS A780GM-A Ultra MSI P7NGM (NVIDIA GeForce 9300) Intel X58 and ASUS P6T Deluxe MSI P45 Neo2 (Intel P45) Foxconn A7GMX-K (AMD 780G) VGA Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 – a new leader in 3D graphics! ECS HYDRA GeForce 9800GTX+. Water-cooled and SLI "all-in-one" Radeon HD 4830 CrossFire - better than Radeon HD 4870! XFX GeForce GTX 260 Black Edition in the SLI mode Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT DDR2 – better than GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic: exclusive, with unusual features Palit HD 4850 Sonic: almost Radeon HD 4870, priced as HD 4850 CPU & Memory: GSkill high-capacity memory modules CPU Intel Core i7-920 (Bloomfield) DDR3 memory: late 2008 CPU AMD Phenom X3 8750 (Toliman) AMD Phenom X4 9850 – a top-end CPU at affordable price CPU Intel Atom 230 (Diamondville) Chaintech Apogee GT DDR3 1600