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Sparkle 6600 GT
This 6600 GT from Sparkle has the highest value for money rating of all the AGP cards on test. The card runs at the standard AGP 6600 GT clock speeds of
500/450 on the GPU and memory. This is slightly short of the standard 500/500
clocks used by the PCI-E version. We are unsure why these lower clock speeds
are chosen, other than to make PCI-E seem like a superior technology.
Since the Geforce 6600 is a native PCI-E design, this AGP card has a bridge
chip, which is so complex and power consuming it needs a heatsink of it's own.
This chip is responsible for a small drop in the cards performance, but it is
still an attractive mid-range card.
The 6600 GPU is an able overclocker, and surprisingly the Samsung 450 MHz memory
reached 500 MHz, bringing another 1000 3D Marks with it. The cooling is reasonably
quiet and very effective, never getting more than slightly warm to the touch.
A standard 3D Mark score of 7876 puts this card comfortably ahead of the last
generations top end cards, but still struggles with extremely high resolutions
and Anti-Aliasing.
The card is in direct competition with the MSI 6600 Diamond Edition, and whilst
it has faster standard settings than the MSI card, it doesn't quite have the
same potential for memory overclocking, so the decision is entirely down to
how adventurous you are feeling.
| Manufacturer |
Sparkle |
| Model |
Geforce 6600 GT |
| Price Inc VAT |
£139.77 |
| Value For Money Rating |
56.3 |
| Retailer Website |
www.microdirect.co.uk |
| Interface |
AGP 8X |
| GPU |
nVidia Geforce 6600 GT |
| GPU Rendering Pipelines |
8 |
| GPU Clock Speed |
500MHz |
| Memory Size |
128MB |
| Memory Type |
128-Bit DDR3 |
| Memory Clock Speed |
450MHz |
| Cooling System |
Heatsink and Fan |
| Power Connectors |
1x Large 4-pin Molex |
| Slots Occupied |
1 |
| VGA Outputs |
1 |
| DVI Outputs |
1 |
| TV-Out |
Yes |
| VIVO |
No |
| Adapters |
DVI-VGA, RGB |
| Bundled Cables |
S-Video |
| Bundled Full Games |
None |
| Misc. Bundled |
None |
Benchmarks
| 3D Mark 2003 Standard Test |
7,876 |
| Aquamark 3 Standard Test |
52,629 |
| Unreal
Tournament 2004 Maximum Detail |
| 1024 x 768 0x AA 0x AF (FPS) |
118 |
| 1280 x 1024 2x AA 2x AF (FPS) |
124 |
| 1600 x 1200 4x AA 4x AF (FPS) |
63 |
| Doom
3, High Detail |
| 1024 x 768 0x AA 0x AF (FPS) |
73 |
| 1280 x 1024 2x AA 2x AF (FPS) |
43 |
| 1600 x 1200 4x AA 4x AF (FPS) |
17 |
| Half-Life
2 Maximum Detail |
| 1024 x 768 0x AA 0x AF (FPS) |
77 |
| 1280 x 1024 2x AA 2x AF (FPS) |
22 |
| 1600 x 1200 4x AA 4x AF (FPS) |
10 |
| Far
Cry Maximum Detail |
| 1024 x 768 0x AA 0x AF (FPS) |
56 |
| 1280 x 1024 2x AA 2x AF (FPS) |
40 |
| 1600 x 1200 4x AA 4x AF (FPS) |
18 |
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