Date:
Thursday , February 10, 2005
Author:
Brent Justice
Editor:
Kyle Bennett
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BFGTech 6600 GT OC AGP & PCI-E SLI

Today we game with BFGTech’s entire GeForce 6600 GT OC lineup consisting of the 6600 GT OC AGP, 6600 GT OC PCI-Express, and SLI setup.

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System Test Setup:

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4), AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2 x 512MB Corsair XMS PC3200LLPro TwinX Dual Channel DDR400 Cas2, Western Digital 74GB Raptor SATA/150, Windows XP Professional SP2 with DirectX 9.0c.

For our system platform setup, we used the ASUS A8N-SLI PCI Express platform with an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU at default speeds.

2x BFGTech GeForce 6600 GT OC 128MB PCI-E. The BFGTech card was tested at its default speeds of 525MHz / 1.05GHz. We used version 67.66 of NVIDIA’s ForceWare beta drivers.

BFGTech GeForce 6600 GT OC 128MB AGP. The BFGTech card was tested at its default speeds of 525MHz / 1.05GHz. We used version 67.66 of NVIDIA’s ForceWare beta drivers.

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB PCI-E.The GeForce 6800 GT was tested at its default speeds 350MHz / 1GHz. We used version 67.66 of NVIDIA’s ForceWare beta drivers.

Sapphire Radeon X700 PRO 256MB PCI-E. For comparison, we used the Sapphire X700 PRO at default speeds, which are 425MHz / 864MHz. We used Catalyst 5.1 with CCC at the default settings with VSYNC disabled.

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Game Evaluation Setup

Please be aware we test our video cards a bit different from what is the norm. We concentrate on examining the real-world gameplay that each video card provides. Gameplay includes performance and image quality evaluation. We have two sections, “Highest Playable” and “Apples to Apples.” The Highest Playable section shows the best Image Quality delivered at a playable frame rate. Following the Highest Playable section, we have a brief Apples to Apples performance section for those that find benefit of frame rates with matching IQ. We use a high performance system, with a very fast CPU in order to remove CPU bottlenecking.