Why would anyone get this? I mean, the 7800gtx 512mb SLi gets over 10000 more 3DMarks??

Probably because it only costs about $130, vs the GTX 512, which costs about $800.

$130!? The cheapest I could find was $175...

Are you kidding me? It's on pricegrabber right now at over 2 dozen stores for $130...$175 is way overpriced.

Not everyone has $800 to throw on just a gfx card :P

yea i have the giga-byte 6600gt, i love this thing, max detail on hl2 (excluding the high def lighting effect lvls) and i get 35-40 fps. thats not bad

I had a FX5600 256MB (non ultra) and wanted to upgrade. This card rocks for its price, i play Call Of Cthulhu and Toca Race Driver 3 with EVERYTHING maxed, and both games play smoothly at 1024x768. The problem i have is some artifacts in DirectX games, they were horrible with Omega drivers but with standard latest drivers from Nvidia the artifacts are almost gone. I also play Lineage II with everything maxed at 1280x1024. The diference in FPS with the FX5600 is brutal...And keep in mind also my processor is a 478 pentium 4 @ 2GHz, with more or less 3 years of life (100x4 MHz FSB) and my memory 768MB DDR2100.

So yeah, for the price i don't believe you can find something better than this. BTW my card has 256 MB. And one more thing, i don't thing the radeon x1600pro AGP is any better than this card, except for some specific games (like Oblivion). In DOOM3 or Toca3 this one blows the x1600 away.

I Have the BFG 6600gt oc apg 128 ddr3 and it rocks worth every penny they should put it on here this site rox!!

well i wanted to upgrade to this card , cause i knew its one hell of a card for its price, but instead i got the X1600Pro ( a bit better card :) )
ohh and the store where i bought the x1600pro (agp), it was cheaper than the 6600gt there :D

i just got the EVGA e-GeForce 6600 GT and it was just the same as the x1300 until i overclocked it. Overclocking it made f.e.a.r. go from 20 frames a second(x1300) to a playable 35. The ati might of looked better but soo slow. I read a review that put the 6600gt over the x1600 also. I wish i tried the x1600 but i`m happy overall. The 128 makes f.e.a.r say i dont have enough memory if i max all the settings. It plays great at 10x7 and max most other stuff, most.

this card is perfect. on overclock i have beat a 6800GT

x1600pro is better in some places but also worse in places. and whoever said this card was like the x1300 you're wrong. I have the x1300pro and this thing is 2x as good.

for this price this is the best AGP card

This card is pretty damn awesome considering it didn't cost me my house. I also found it to be more productive using the Omega Drivers for this card instead of the standard NVIDIA ForceWare.

The only problem with it is that it's very noisy.

the X1600 Pro is better in all the games ive played . my friend has a 6600GT , but more RAM and a better CPU , yet i get alot better frames in every game ive played on his and my own machine .

sry for the double post , he has the PCI-e version of the 6600GT , i have the AGP version of the X1600 Pro

interested in buying, but one question, wat is the recommended min PSU wattage?

300W will work .

Hold's it's own. I recently tested one against an x1600pro,x700 agp, And the 7300gt. Long story real short it kills all of them for only 70$

I had fx-5500, but now I bought 6600GT and i'm delighted! But, the noise is freaking me out. Is there some easy solution to reduce the noise? (fx-5500 is far more quiet)

great card, but I can't play FarCry on any other setting than low. With my previous card (fx-5500) I could play on medium. Why 6600gt is having problems with this game???

Updating to the latest Forceware drivers might be useful. 'Specially if the last time they were updated was when you bought that FX-5500. ;)

Lol this card is once again in the most popular cards list. I wonder why , the 7600 GT AGP is much better than this .

hi i want buy this card, but i confused is it AGP card or PCI Express ? ? ! ! please help me . . you can tell me in my mail: sumon47bd@yahoo.com . .. if it's not an AGP card then suggest me a AGP card which can Support "PixelShader 3". . it's ursent plz. .

@Hardlife You can a 6600 GT in PCI Express or AGP. I would recommend either a 7600 GT AGP or a X1950 Pro AGP instead of the 6600 GT. Check out this page please:
http://www.gpureview.com/superlatives.php

My AGP NVidea 6600 video card is done and I need to replace it. Any suggestions? Mostly for computer gaming (WOW, COD, etc.) for my sons. Need help. Thanks.

@Gaming Mom Please check out my previous post on this page.

Dear mr. i have a computer pentium D i want buy a VGAcard which one is better? nVidia 6600 GT AGP or 8800 GT? which have a lower price?

hi i have a computer with pentium D processor, main board ASUS P5VD2-MX, i dont have a VGA card, What should i do if i want a good perfomance for my computer to play an extreme game, you can send an email to me in hay_kan_sharingan@yahoo.co.id!!!

Other than the confusion it caused with its power requirements, this card rocked... till the 7600GT came.

This card was revolutionary for its time, really the first time the mid-range got a decent card. DX 9.0c, SM 3.0 and good performance all around for the current games (HL2, Doom3, etc.)

Even the lowly 7600GS is faster then this crappy card.

i'm glad i found this page to get real stats, mine is 6600gt agp just like the picture with the fan cover diagnal, it works good. but some day i want to change out everything to pci express in a shuttle box.