The 6600 GPU is nothing new; it was initially released on April 24, 2004. Since then the 6600 has been one of the best budget-based graphics cards on the market, if not THE best. However, when ATI releasd the X1300 GPU this past October, NVIDIA finally saw some real competition to the 6600 card at the under $100 price range. It is a testament to the GeForce 6-series GPU that the core is still very competitive today against the latest from ATI, but to help the 6600 last a bit longer, NVIDIA released a refresh recently to the card that added support for DDR2 memory and a 256 MB frame buffer..



Link: PC Perspective