Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT
Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT Features
Package bundle:
Rejoice, the plentiful army of DOOM3 worshippers! Gigabyte has brought you a gift - in the package bundle you will find a special 3-CD edition of your favorite game and, after flight from Mars, admire the box as well made in the fully matching style.
But beside the DOOM3 itself you will find a lot of useful and interesting items, namely:
1. Video card Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT (GV-NX66T128D);
2. 15-pin DVI/D-Sub and HDTV adapters;
3. Detailed manual;
4. CD with drivers and utilities, including V-Tuner2 Plus;
5. PowerDVD rev 5.0 player;
6. and DOOM3, of course.
Design and layout:
The board is made on blue textolyte, a solution traditional for Gigabyte as far as products built on NVIDIA chips are concerned. The PCB design is a complete replica of NVIDIA's reference design and has no additional power connector - but some manufacturers of 6600GT have fitted it anyway. They may have either insured themselves or used the first revision of GeForce 6600GT chip.
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The shape and dimensions of the cooling system fitted on the card are fully identical to what we saw on the very first sample of 6600GT . The aluminum radiator with a small fan covers only the GPU, leaving the four memory chips on the board's front side without any heat spreaders. As we have repeatedly mentioned, you don't have to do that because the heat emission of the card is not high, and the recommended minimum power rating of the PSU for this board is 300W (of course, that does not apply to PSUs of Codegen class).
And, as we already mentioned in the beginning of this material, use of NV43 revision 2 allows Gigabyte excluding the problem completely.
Let's look at the GPU. The rated speed of the chip GeForce 6600GT is 500MHz (no deviations from the reference), and it was made on the 35th week of 2004, also of revision А2:
There is 128 Mb GDDR3 memory with a 128-bit data transmission bus assembled with four K4J55323QF-GC20 Samsung chips made in the BGA form factor, of 2 ns access time, which is equivalent to the operating frequency 500 MHz (1000 MHz DDR). The rated operating frequency of memory on Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT fully meets the value. In our forthcoming materials, we'll be reviewing many interesting boards on the base of the GeForce 6600GT chip, including those equipped with much faster memory (1.6 ns access time).
There is also welded space for VIVO, but the chip is not installed.
Certainly, there is a SLI connector on board.
And a standard set of outputs - digital, and TV-OUT.
As we can see, RivaTuner fully recognized the card.
Now let's look at the card in action.
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