Leadtek WinFast PX6600 TDH Extreme

Posted 07/01/2005 at 11:27am | by

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Budget videocard is no bargain

Leadtek offers gamers a $200 board based on nVidia’s GeForce 6600 GT core. The PX6600 sports a core clock of 560MHz, and its 128MB of memory is clocked at 550MHz; the nVidia reference design clocks both RAM and GPU at 500MHz.

Apart from the clock settings, however, Leadtek’s board design is pretty generic. There’s one DVI and one VGA connector, along with a TV-out connector that provides component and S-Video output when you plug in a cable stub.

Despite the PX6600’s mere 128-bit memory interface and eight pixel pipelines—the high-end boards sport 16 pipes—the GPU performs fairly well at this clock speed. Even better, you can run two cards in SLI mode.

The PX6600 slows to a crawl when running games with antialiasing and anisotropic filtering at full throttle, but you’ll get reasonable performance with less-demanding settings.

Although there’s nothing exciting about this card’s benchmark numbers at high resolutions with all the visual goodies enabled, the PX6600 is a good value for people faced with a strict $200 budget—just don’t expect to play games at your LCD’s native resolution.
--Michael Brown

+ A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: Budget priced, includes free games.

- AGENT ORANGE: Doesn't deliver the goods when you crank up the visual effects in games.

Month Reviewed: July 2005
Verdict: 6
URL: www.leadtek.com