PNY Verto GeForce 6 6600 GT AGP
PNY didn’t spend a lot of time rethinking the GeForce 6 6600 GT’s standard design. The PNY Verto GeForce 6 6600 GT AGP is strictly identical to NVIDIA’s, fan included. The board features128 MB of GDD3 Samsung 2.0ns memory, a VGA D-Sub, DVI and TV output.
The package is very complete on the hardware side. In terms of software side, however, there’s no game, utility, or DVD player software.
In practice, like the MSI, this PNY graphic card doesn’t initially have any temperature monitoring activated. After activation the result is 78°C in use, which is higher than some graphic cards but nothing to worry about in practice. The maximum temperature before NVIDIA automatically reduces the GPU frequency is 127°C. The standard cooling system is quite noisy. We measured 52 dBA, and think it’s unfortuneate that noise isn’t reduced in 2D.
After Overclocking, the 3DMark03 score in 1024*768 with AA 4x increases from 4598 to 5343.
VerdictThis graphic card has nothing that stands out compared to the other GeForce 6600 GTs.
Point Of View GeForce 6600 GT AGP
Like PNY, Point Of View uses NVIDIA’s standard design and hasn’t made too much effort to improve on it. The POV card features 128 MB of GDDR3 Samsung 2.0ns memory, a VGA, DVI and TV output.
While POV hasn’t made too much effort in the design area, it did for the package. For the hardware part, there is a VGA/DVI adaptor and a Video / Composite / YUV adaptor for TV output. The software is the most impressive: InterVideo WinDVD but also 3 recent games of quality: Far Cry, Pacific Fighters and Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within.
We found the 52.5 dBA of the cooling system unfortuneate. The temperature probe measured 77°C, which isn’t a problem for overclocking. The graphic card GPU successfully reached 560 MHz605 MHz and 605 MHz for the GDDR3 memory. The final score for 3DMark03 in 1024*768 with AA 4x is 5584 instead of 4605 without Overclocking.
VerdictFrom the hardware point of view, the Point Of View doesn’t stand out, however the software part of the package is excellent.
