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Albatron GeForce 6600 GT 128MB PCI-E Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Sunday, 05 March 2006 |
Sharky Extreme comes with a review on the Albatron GeForce 6600 GT 128MB PCIe graphics card. Video cards can be separated into three different classes, with the entry-level buyer just looking for a low-cost option that can actually play 3D games, while the high-end and enthusiast gamers exist at the other end of the spectrum, spending hundreds of dollars on the latest and greatest. Right in the middle, we have the mainstream buyer, not wanting to sacrifice speed just to save a few bucks, and vice versa. This is where the GeForce 6600 GT comes in, and even though NVIDIA has updated the high and low-ends of the scale with the GeForce 7 series, the mid-range is still the domain of the GeForce 6 models.
 Albatron GeForce 6600 GT 128MB PCI-E Review
The Albatron GeForce 6600 GT 128MB is a standard card in many respects, and features a GeForce 6600 GT graphics core combined with 128MB of GDDR3. The GeForce 6600 GT features 8 pixel pipelines, 8 texture units and 3 vertex shaders, making this a very capable GPU for its class. The card's memory bus is 128-bit and the GDDR3 memory is rated at 2.0ns. Clock speeds are standard, and the Albatron runs at 500MHz core and 1.0GHz memory, the default speeds for a standard GeForce 6600 GT card. From a purely technical standpoint, the Albatron does not differ from the reference design, and even offers SLI support for dual card operation.
The card itself is a specialized design and Albatron has tweaked a few areas and given the Albatron GeForce 6600 GT 128MB its own definite look. The card features a blue PCB and copper heatsinks on the GPU and memory chips. This gives the card a bit higher-end look and feel than the basic GeForce 6600 GT cards, and certainly will give you some ideas regarding potential overclocking. The Albatron GeForce 6600 GT is a single-slot model and due to its short length and the back of the card being free from heatsinks or other obstructions, this is a virtually seamless video card to install.
In any hardware review, it's important to understand the product's intended target market, and then determine how well it does inside that framework. No GeForce 6600 GT card is going to outperform a high-end GeForce 7800 GTX or Radeon X1900 XTX, but that was never the intention. The GeForce 6600 GT has always been about combining performance and value in a single package, and the Albatron GeForce 6600 GT 128MB is a superb example of that philosophy.
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