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Diablotek nVidia GeForce 6600 256MB AGP 8x Video Card

Sunday, May 1st, 2005 | Reviews, Video Card Reviews

This card is a slightly lesser know brand, but based on the popular nVidia GeForce 6600 video card processor.

Reports have it that this card works extremely well for even the newest games and can handle the demands placed by games like DOOM 3 and Half Life 2.

So what’s to it?

As mentioned before, it is based on the nVidia GeForce 6600 video card processor. Video cards come with what amounts to a CPU processor, but which is made and designed especially for use in video cards. This chip is used to perform the highly intensive operations and calculations that are perfomed when bringing 3D graphics to life.

2D graphics have very little demand on the power of the video card. 3D graphics add much more to these demands. As they also calculate things like the shadows of things, and put every increasingly detailed surfaces on things on the screen so the amount of power required increases.

The large amount of memory, which on this graphics card is 256MB helps with storing this vast increasing amount of information that is being past and calculated.

Overall this card is exceptional value for money. It’s under 200 bucks, and you don’t even need to send in a rebate to claim any of that back.

People who have installed this card have used it in PCs that are equipped with at least 512MB of DDR400/PC3200 RAM memory and are usually combined with an Athlon XP 3000+.

With that said, there is no reason why this can’t be used to add that extra power to any system. And with it using AGP 8x, it is quite likely that if your system is around 3 years old, that it can still manage to support this card.

My only concern lies with the fact that this product is not from a well known manufacturer. It has been labelled as being from “Diablotek” Fortunately, if you have a good supplier, this should not pose any difficulties if you need to make an exchange.