What has become quite possibly the best mainstream video card is now catering to an even wider audience, and thank goodness for that. NVIDIA announced the new GeForce 6600 series of video cards back in mid August and we did a short technical preview here of this new series. To sum up the technical specifications, the 6600GT is an 8 pipeline / 3 vertex unit video card clocked at a very high 500MHz GPU frequency using GDDR3 memory on a 128-bit memory bus clocked at 500MHz (1GHz DDR). The vanilla 6600 also has 8 pixel pipelines and 3 vertex units, but it has a frequency reduced GPU core speed of 300MHz and uses DDR1 memory clocked at the manufacturer's discretion.



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