System setup and notes
Hardware
- GALAXY GeForce 6600, 256MB, CPIe, X16, 324/552
- ASUS Extreme EN5900 (PCX5900) 128MB, PCIe X16, 377/702
- ASUS Extreme AX600XT/HTVD 128MB, PCie X16, 499/742
- Intel Pentium 4 560 3.6GHz Prescott CPU, LGA775
- DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2 Alderwood motherboard
- 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair DDR2 Twin2X, 4-4-4-12 @ DDR533
- Samcheer 420w PSU
- LGA775 reference coolers
- WD 160JB 160GB hard drive (PATA)
- Dell P991 19" flat-faced CRT monitor
Software
- Windows XP Professional w/SP1
- NVIDIA ForceWare 61.77
- ATI CATALYST 4.8
- Intel 6.01.1006 chipset drivers
- DirectX 9.0b Runtime
- 3DMark03 v340
- AquaMark3
- Unreal Tournament 2003 Retail (patched up to 2225 - HEXUS custom benchmark)
- Painkiller - HEXUS Custom benchmark
- Call Of Duty - HEXUS Custom benchmark
- DOOM 3 - Timedemo 1 - High quality
Notes
I'll be taking a look at GALAXY GeForce 6600 performance against a couple of PCI-Express cards based on the previous generation's GPUs. It will be interesting to note where NVIDIA's NV43 GPU is better than the superceded NV30 architecture. Benchmarks were run at 1024x768, 1200x1024 and 1600x1200 unless otherwise stated. I also ran these three resolutions with 4X AntiAliasing and 8X Anisotropic Filtering.
