InnoVision's 9 video cards - a complete assortment of value-sector solutions for AGP and PCI-E
Inno3D GeForce 6600GT PCI-E
Package bundle of Inno3D GeForce 6600GT PCI-E:
- Video cards Inno3D GeForce 6600GT;
- DVI/ D-Sub 15-pin adapter;
- S-Video/RCA adapter;
- Drivers and utilities CD;
- User's manual;
- ÑD with 3DMark05;
- Game - Colin Mcrae Rally04.
What catches the eye first is the cooling system. It appears to be a kit comprising a radiator with a fan on the GPU (by CoolerMaster) and separate radiators on the video memory chip. The cooling system by CoolerMaster is also used on other high-end products made by InnoVision. Note that the foot and the heat-spreading fins of the radiator on GPU are made of copper, whereas the lid, like radiators on the memory chips are made of copper-styled aluminum. The noise coming from the cooling system is not high, which in combination with the cooling efficiency gives a weighty advantage over many competitor solutions.
A few months ago, we reviewed five PCI-E boards built on GeForce 6600GT offered by various manufacturers. Presented were not only solutions with the "classical" characteristics, but also alternative versions having increased frequencies and equipped with memory much faster than standard (2 ns) – offering 1.6 ns access time.
This version of the board is just the set of standard characteristics, starting with the GPU and memory frequencies which amount to 5000/1000MHz as it should be according to the specifications.
GPU GeForce 6600GT (NV43) offers eight pixel pipelines and three vertex units. The operating frequency in 2D is 300MHz, and 500MHz in 3D.
The boards are equipped with 128Mb of GDDR3 video memory, with a 128-bit data transmission bus, in the form of eight Infineon BGA chips positioned on the front side of the board. The 2ns access time is equivalent to 500MHz (1000MHz DDR) operating frequency.
Inno3D GeForce 6600GT offers support for the SLI mode, both through an adapter (there is a respective connector onboard) and with the driver. Note that the SLI implementation via the SLI adapter is more efficient in the end because otherwise the job of synchronization of two boards has to be done by the PCI-Express x16 bus, which affects the overall speed. Therefore, the most efficient way of SLI implementation is still the good old SLI bridge. Moreover, unlike 6600 (LE) which lacks a special connector or other way of supporting SLI than the driver, this case offers us a good alternative.
We are now moving on to examining Inno3D boards with the AGP 8x interface.
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