Retail Geforce 6600GT Exploration

Inno3D

Inno3D didn't overclock the highest, has the loudest fan, and isn't the coolest card of the bunch (though it was competitive with other box-shaped HSF solutions). But the one thing that Inno3D did better than everyone else that we had looked at was the way that they attached their heatsink to the board. The HSF doesn't move and makes excellent contact with the GPU.

The sound of the HSF had a higher pitched hair dryer quality to it, though we are still talking about a mid-range card level fan speed. This was the loudest card that we ran, but that speaks well for Geforce 6600 GT cards. On the upside, the heatsink is all copper, as are the ramsinks. They also used 1.6ns GDDR3 on their board, but clocked it at 500MHz. In light of this, a 600MHz memory clock speed should be achievable even though we were unable to push it that high.