It was so much fun to overclock the 6600 and 6200 series. Most of them were able to overclock from 300/500 to 450/600 or even more. The performance increased by 30-40%.
There is massive difference between each 6600 (nont GT) cards, some can't be overclocked at all and some of them can be overclocked like hell. I have one with bios mod (OC thru software was limited, I wanted to go even higher, so I had to mod bios) and and after such brutal OC, performance is exactly between standard 6600 and 6600GT with DDR3. But on other hand, I melted 5V cable on low quality splitter and coils are whistling, I didn't expect it eats so much watts from 5V line. I have that GPU like that for few years and it still works without any artifacts. I have another 6600 non GT and that can't be OC at all, it immediately freezes or has artifacts.
The 6600 vanilla was such a let down compared to the 6600GT. But then, the 6600GT is a contender for the best price/perfomance gaming card of ALL TIME, up there with the HD4770 and RX570. I remember playing around with my 6600 vanilla card in a retro rig and being shocked at how slow it was compared to my expectations. Never realized that they are very overclockable. That might have helped a bunch! Never thought to try. I have an AGP 7600GS which overclocked like a champion, getting upwards of 50% higher than original clocks and still running at almost the same temps with the same fan speed settings.
Yes, it runs even on 6200 TC it has 10 fps avg framerate on 6200 TC in 1280x1024. It might be even playable in 1024x768 or 800x600. I am using Fose Loader to unlock framerate for this game. A jinak zdravím do ČR 🙂
@@RetroGamingKingdom No neřikej mi že další takovejhle kanál o retro HW je zase Čech. 🤣🤣 6200 tady zrovna mam, nějakou tu osekanou 64bit verzi, to je stejnej shit jako FX5200, dobrý akorát jako zarážka na knihy.
@@Pidalin Jo jo těch 64 bit byla opravdová většina mám jich asi tak 7. Pro mě to byl ale opravdový poklad. Dostal jsem ji k narozkám v roce 2006. Tehdy stála 1113 kč. Byl to tehdy upgrade z Permedia 2 8 MB na 6200 64 bit 128 MB.🖥🔧🪛
@@RetroGamingKingdom Tak to byl slušnej upgrade, já se začal o PC zajímat v roce 2004 a nejdřiv jsme doma měli nějakou Pentium 1 166 MHz (nebo Pentium MMX, už nevim co to přesně bylo, ale bylo tam nainstalovaný ME a pamatuju si hraní pinballu) s nějakou 2 MB grafikou, pak táta koupil v bazaru (tenkrát za 3500 Kč!) komp s 350 MHz pentium II a to už mu i prodavač řikal ať to nekupuje, že to jsou vyhozený prachy, ale když jsi socka co o pár tisíc víc dohromady prostě nedá, tak bereš co se dá za tu cenu. Pak jsme dostali nějakou FX5200 (od tátova kámoše co to koupil, řekl že to je odpad a dal to tátovi zadarmo) a to už jsme měli pentium 550 MHz, no byl to v roce 2005 už hroznej střep, ale v tom věku jsem byl nadšenej že mi jdou spustit celkem moderní 3D hry. Předtim jsem u vlastních kompů (ne u táty) vystřídal taky různý 4MB a 8MB grafiky, to jsem byl vždycky rád že to rozjelo AvP v 640x480 na 20 FPS a za 3 roky už jsem kupoval C2D a GF9800 GTX, to byly časy. 😀
Můj první komp byl AMD Duron 650 MHz, 64 MB RAM, Permedia 2, HDD 20 GB, win 98. Tehdy to i s monitorem a klávesnicí přišlo na 3000 kč (Na lepší nebylo). Hrál sem hlavně freewarovky jako Moorhuhn. Jedinou solidnější hru kterou to rozjelo byly Punské války (Nemesis of the Roman Empire)
@@RetroGamingKingdom I have one listed on eBay right now, a super clean model we hardly ever used in the computer shop in all those years. If you want it I can pull the listing and let you have it at a very low price if you promise to make benchmark videos with it!
@@TheVanillatech Sorry man I dont even have internet banking. I am doing these benchmarks just for fun. Right now I have something like 30 untested cards. Sooner or later I'll get 6600 GT from my local sources. So I am not in a hurry
@@RetroGamingKingdom No problem brother. I just got around to finally listing stuff on eBay after threatening to thin the herd of my GPU / CPU / RAM collection for many years. So I started opening boxes, and I mean a LOT of boxes, and thinking .... how the fuck did I get all this stuff and forget about it? When does it become a problem? XD So now I'm happily spending my spare time sorting through everything and selling it on. I say "happily" ... not sure how long that will last. It's already becoming slightly annoying and repetitive. I only asked because I'd rather items go to people like you, who actually get a kick out of old hardware and enjoy messing with it (like I used to before I had kids), than some dealer who will just sell it on, or some hoarder like me who will seal it in a box.
It was so much fun to overclock the 6600 and 6200 series. Most of them were able to overclock from 300/500 to 450/600 or even more. The performance increased by 30-40%.
There is massive difference between each 6600 (nont GT) cards, some can't be overclocked at all and some of them can be overclocked like hell. I have one with bios mod (OC thru software was limited, I wanted to go even higher, so I had to mod bios) and and after such brutal OC, performance is exactly between standard 6600 and 6600GT with DDR3. But on other hand, I melted 5V cable on low quality splitter and coils are whistling, I didn't expect it eats so much watts from 5V line. I have that GPU like that for few years and it still works without any artifacts. I have another 6600 non GT and that can't be OC at all, it immediately freezes or has artifacts.
The 6600 vanilla was such a let down compared to the 6600GT. But then, the 6600GT is a contender for the best price/perfomance gaming card of ALL TIME, up there with the HD4770 and RX570.
I remember playing around with my 6600 vanilla card in a retro rig and being shocked at how slow it was compared to my expectations.
Never realized that they are very overclockable. That might have helped a bunch! Never thought to try. I have an AGP 7600GS which overclocked like a champion, getting upwards of 50% higher than original clocks and still running at almost the same temps with the same fan speed settings.
The 7600GT is of course much faster with 2.8x higher fill rate and also 2.8x more memory bandwidth.
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I am shocked that Fallout 3 can actually at least run on 6600 non GT, pretty impressive for 2004 GPU.
Yes, it runs even on 6200 TC it has 10 fps avg framerate on 6200 TC in 1280x1024. It might be even playable in 1024x768 or 800x600. I am using Fose Loader to unlock framerate for this game. A jinak zdravím do ČR 🙂
@@RetroGamingKingdom No neřikej mi že další takovejhle kanál o retro HW je zase Čech. 🤣🤣 6200 tady zrovna mam, nějakou tu osekanou 64bit verzi, to je stejnej shit jako FX5200, dobrý akorát jako zarážka na knihy.
@@Pidalin Jo jo těch 64 bit byla opravdová většina mám jich asi tak 7. Pro mě to byl ale opravdový poklad. Dostal jsem ji k narozkám v roce 2006. Tehdy stála 1113 kč. Byl to tehdy upgrade z Permedia 2 8 MB na 6200 64 bit 128 MB.🖥🔧🪛
@@RetroGamingKingdom Tak to byl slušnej upgrade, já se začal o PC zajímat v roce 2004 a nejdřiv jsme doma měli nějakou Pentium 1 166 MHz (nebo Pentium MMX, už nevim co to přesně bylo, ale bylo tam nainstalovaný ME a pamatuju si hraní pinballu) s nějakou 2 MB grafikou, pak táta koupil v bazaru (tenkrát za 3500 Kč!) komp s 350 MHz pentium II a to už mu i prodavač řikal ať to nekupuje, že to jsou vyhozený prachy, ale když jsi socka co o pár tisíc víc dohromady prostě nedá, tak bereš co se dá za tu cenu. Pak jsme dostali nějakou FX5200 (od tátova kámoše co to koupil, řekl že to je odpad a dal to tátovi zadarmo) a to už jsme měli pentium 550 MHz, no byl to v roce 2005 už hroznej střep, ale v tom věku jsem byl nadšenej že mi jdou spustit celkem moderní 3D hry. Předtim jsem u vlastních kompů (ne u táty) vystřídal taky různý 4MB a 8MB grafiky, to jsem byl vždycky rád že to rozjelo AvP v 640x480 na 20 FPS a za 3 roky už jsem kupoval C2D a GF9800 GTX, to byly časy. 😀
Můj první komp byl AMD Duron 650 MHz, 64 MB RAM, Permedia 2, HDD 20 GB, win 98. Tehdy to i s monitorem a klávesnicí přišlo na 3000 kč (Na lepší nebylo). Hrál sem hlavně freewarovky jako Moorhuhn. Jedinou solidnější hru kterou to rozjelo byly Punské války (Nemesis of the Roman Empire)
7600 GT 2006 Midrange GPU, runs 2008 game (Fallout 3) on low. 1060 2016 Midrange gpu can run 2019 game (Star Wars: Jedi fallen order) on ultra
on ultra maybe in 720p
Please TEST😊
6800GT vs 7600GT
6600GT vs 7300GT or 7600GS would be interesting
As soon as I'll see 6000GT for good price I'll buy one. Because this is GPU that I really want to test.
@@RetroGamingKingdom I have one listed on eBay right now, a super clean model we hardly ever used in the computer shop in all those years. If you want it I can pull the listing and let you have it at a very low price if you promise to make benchmark videos with it!
@@TheVanillatech Sorry man I dont even have internet banking. I am doing these benchmarks just for fun. Right now I have something like 30 untested cards. Sooner or later I'll get 6600 GT from my local sources. So I am not in a hurry
@@RetroGamingKingdom No problem brother. I just got around to finally listing stuff on eBay after threatening to thin the herd of my GPU / CPU / RAM collection for many years. So I started opening boxes, and I mean a LOT of boxes, and thinking .... how the fuck did I get all this stuff and forget about it?
When does it become a problem? XD
So now I'm happily spending my spare time sorting through everything and selling it on. I say "happily" ... not sure how long that will last. It's already becoming slightly annoying and repetitive.
I only asked because I'd rather items go to people like you, who actually get a kick out of old hardware and enjoy messing with it (like I used to before I had kids), than some dealer who will just sell it on, or some hoarder like me who will seal it in a box.