What's the best 6600GT AGP to get?

**Snee** · 01-13-2005, 01:24 PM

The xfx is supposed to be a pos. Bad quality and high temps, maybe noisy too, gonna go have a look.

There are some good ones from gainward, tho' I hear they didn't do a good job of mounting the heatsinks on quite a lot of the early ones. Insufficient springs to keep them in place and such.

The latest batch should be cool tho'.

EDit: not sure about the noise levels, still looking, but the xfx support is horrible according to a lot of people.

**Monkeee** · 01-14-2005, 03:01 AM

o gawd so which one do you guys reccomend?

**Snee** · 01-14-2005, 08:16 PM

The very latest ones from gainward, or one of those MSI's.

Haven't heard anything bad about the MSI's at all, but haven't heard much else about them either.

EDit: maybe pete can link to more of those reviews.

**lynx** · 01-14-2005, 08:23 PM

Can't comment about the XFX boards with regard to noise, I've got an FX5200 with passive cooling!!!

But I have never had a moment's problem with it and it is well overclocked when running games. I haven't had any problem getting drivers from the XFX site when necessary either.

**Snee** · 01-14-2005, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by lynx

Can't comment about the XFX boards with regard to noise, I've got an FX5200 with passive cooling!!!

But I have never had a moment's problem with it and it is well overclocked when running games. I haven't had any problem getting drivers from the XFX site when necessary either.

Then there are the blokes at sudhian and elsewhere who'd class xfx as the world's worst brand ever.

Tales of trying to get support and all lines always being busy and whatnot.

The quality complaints I've seen have specifically been about the 6600's and the 6800's, btw.

I dunno', I can only refer to what others have said, as I never tried one myself. Still trying to save enough money to buy what I want, which is a gainward, I think.

**Monkeee** · 01-15-2005, 12:07 AM

ok nevermind i'm not getting the XFX, have heard a lot of people saying their XFX 6600GT had burned out

**peat moss** · 01-15-2005, 01:41 AM

Originally Posted by Monkeee

ok nevermind i'm not getting the XFX, have heard a lot of people saying their XFX 6600GT had burned out

What about the Asus card ? What are they bundle with ? like games , programs ? Or Leadtek ?

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...d=1309&src=3rd

**peat moss** · 01-15-2005, 02:17 AM

Game bundle : Like ASUS, eVGA, and MSI, Leadtek has chosen to stick with NVIDIA’s reference clock speeds of 500MHz core/450MHz memory for their WinFast A6600 GT TDH card. All three cards also ship with the conventional DVI/VGA combination as well. Leadtek outfits their card with one of the better game bundles in this roundup by including the DVD version of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, two popular Ubisoft titles from 2004. Leadtek also bundles a power adapter, DVI adapter, and HDTV output with the WinFast A6600 GT TDH.

Link: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...ndup/page5.asp