6600GT by Asus? Gigabyte? BFG? MSI? XFX? eVGA? Leadtek?

[c0w]

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Which one is better????

[Amourek]

Depends what you mean by best. BFG & eVGA for example have lifetime warranties IIRC. MSI has the best bundle and quietest cooling solution. Some of the cards come with an HDTV component-out cable, some are Dual DVI (others VGA/DVI). Also they might be clocked differently so some will have better out-of-the-box performance.

[nathan_chan168]

prolly all the same.
pick one that you think looks good.
fits the aftermarket vga cooler u have in mind
and fits ur comp setup etc

i went w/ bfg. lifetime support. I emailed them and got reply in 26mins.

gl
-nathan

[c0w]

Yeah, I'm kinda heading toward the BFG because of their warranty and support.
Performance wise, is there a big difference?
I heard some people say that the card by MSI isn't truely a 6600GT. Some say Asus underclock their cards. Some say XFX outperform other ones by 5-10fps in some games.

It's really hard to decide what is what.

[Thundercloud]

Or you could read some reviews :)
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2295

[Cafe_333]

Or you could read some reviews :)
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2295Good link. From a performance standpoint and all around, the Albatron seems to fair well.

[c0w]

Or you could read some reviews :)
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2295

Thanks for the link.
Too bad they didn't have Asus and BFG included in there.

[felix]

I thought Leadtek was the most quiet/cool performance wise of the bunch? And only Gigabyte makes fanless (ie. passive) cooling ones at stock without any third party add-on.

I can confirm the MSI PCI-E 6600GT works fine with Aerocool VM-101 if you can find it in Canada (better than Zalman ones, not as good as new VM-102 copper one). I have this right now, and was worried this passive cooling solution wouldn't work from what i read. But i'm using it now and my video card temps are fine (43/44C idle, 68/59C load running rthdribl v1.2). I think it's even better than Gigabyte fanless ones which run hotter. :)

[J1M]

I have a vendetta against MSI. Take that however you like.

[Txiasaeia]

Leadtek is supposed to be the quietest, but my 6600GT Extreme has been sitting in a repair centre in California for about a week; I've sent two emails to them & they haven't yet replied. It's a terrific card, but customer support's not so great, and the fact that it was defective was definitely a bad thing (had it for only a couple of weeks).

[bionicbadger]

MSI has the best bundle and quietest cooling solution.

I call bull*****


Leadtek is supposed to be the quietes

Again I call bull*****

The gigabyte card has passive cooling and makes zero noise so unless one of the other cards has a white noise generator on it specifically tuned to cancel other noise in your computer, it can't be more quiet. I have the 6800 passive and I love it.

[v00d00]

I have an XFX 6600GT.. I've never tried or used any of the other ones, but I am completely happy with this card.. and that's after switching from being an ATI only guy.

[Txiasaeia]

The gigabyte card has passive cooling and makes zero noise so unless one of the other cards has a white noise generator on it specifically tuned to cancel other noise in your computer, it can't be more quiet. I have the 6800 passive and I love it.

Wow. So you're saying that the quietest 6600GT is a Gigabyte 6800 passive? That's just... wow.

[v00d00]

My 6600GT has a fan on the heatsink.. it's still quiet and even better is it runs super cool.

[B0000rt]

The BFG 6600GT OC is currently on a $20 MIR!

So even more savings to you :(

Unfortunately I had purchased mine about two weeks ago when there was no rebate, oh well, card runs at 550/1.1 alright. Ram doesn't seem to go much higher, (maybe to 1.13 but the core can do 580!)

[bionicbadger]

Wow. So you're saying that the quietest 6600GT is a Gigabyte 6800 passive? That's just... wow.

No Gigabyte also makes a 6600GT passive.

[Amourek]

Yes, Gigabyte makes a passive 6600GT, but it's $50 than the regular one. Bull***** that.

[Txiasaeia]

Yes, Gigabyte makes a passive 6600GT, but it's $50 than the regular one. Bull***** that.

No kidding. I need to get about an inch away from my Leadtek 6600GT to hear the fan running; with the case closed, aside from the HD, I can't hear *anything* on my system. Mind you, what with the problems I've been having with them, I can't exactly recommend Leadtek as a manufacturer, but IMHO not equipping a modern video card with a heatsink/fan is going to lead to trouble in the long run.

I picked the Leadtek because it had the best performance, period. The problem was that tomshardware and anandtech, for example, only test for raw performance and not stability (except for when they overclock). This is how I got burned.

[LegiT]

BFg comes with a lifetime warranty(not like PNQ's which requires the card to still be on shelf) and eVGA has their 1+1 year warranty(register at site for another year of warranty). RMAing with these two companies was smooth without troubles. PNQ requires you to have a proof of purchase for rmaing (like wth). Anyhow, BFG and eVGa are the two top notch providers IMO.

[chaego]

yea BFT support is very very good takes them less then 10min to reponse my emails sometimes too never took more then an hour and only took me 3 days to get my card back from em after being told they've shiped it out

[felix]

Wow. So you're saying that the quietest 6600GT is a Gigabyte 6800 passive? That's just... wow.
They make a 6800 passive one also. It's kinda expensive still probably so I'd save the money and just get a 6600GT instead which is good enough for today's games. :)