Asus Extreme N6600GT - Page 01

Last week we examined ATi's X700 pro card, targeted towards the mainstream market. It's now time to take a look at what rival Nvidia has to offer in the way of the 6600GT chipset.

In the following table you will find a sum up of the major differences between the various versions of Nvidia Geforce 6 based cards:

As you can see, the Extreme N6600GT differs from other 6600GT based cards, with slightly increased clock speeds and of course, slightly increased price.

- Packaging - Bundle

The Extreme N6600GT's packaging isn't anything surprising. The box is arrayed with the card's main features such as 128MB of DDR3, the 3-year warranty and the PCI-Express requirement.

Inside the box you'll find a standard D-sub cable, DVI adaptor and VGA connector, a portable CD case labeled Asus CD Suite. Inside the CD Suite you'll find the card's software bundle which is listed below:

Software Bundle:
- Joint Operations : Typhoon rising
- AsusDVD
- Asus PowerDirector 3DE
- Medi@Show SE 2.0
- Asus CD manual
- Asus VGA driver CD