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Gigabyte GeForce 6600 GT Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 12 November 2004 |
Guru3D has published a review on the Gigabyte GeForce 6600 GT. Looking back at the past few weeks it's amazing how many 6600 cards were submitted for a review. The manufacturer's clearly believe in this product range and yes they have every reason to do so. The GeForce 6600 range is inexpensive and offers truly first-rate value for you hard earned bucks.
 Gigabyte GeForce 6600 GT Review
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
before you really can call it mid-range. But Gigabyte made the $200 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 to spare of course.
Since it's included, let's talk
about Doom 3. 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
1024x768 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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