GIGABYTE nVIDIA GeForce 6600: identical or not?

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I was using anandtech's price engine and two stores sold this card for cheap, but their product screenshots are different:

XtremeGear:
Screenshot #1

NewEgg:
Screenshot #1
Screenshot #2

The card's design looks different, but the model #'s are the same. Is one design newer than the other? I don't know which one to get.

 

[Sp33d]

get the newegg one. I haven't heard of this other store and the newegg matches the one on the gigabyte site.

 

[daveybrat]

I've used 2 of those cards and they do not look like that first picture. They look exactly like the ones from Newegg

 

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Thanks Sp33d & daveybrat for confirming this.

 

[Sp33d]

np

 

[GollumSmeagol]

The XtremeGear one is the TurboForce edition of the 6600GT PCI-Ex version. This is a slightly overclocked edition (mem clock @ 1120MHz), with SilentPipe cooling.

Model is GV-NX66T128VP, link to product page:

http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-NX66T128VP.htm#

General info on the TurboForce series:
http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/FileList/NewTech/tech_20041001_tf.htm

The NewEgg one looks like the standard 6600GT, that is GV-NX66T128D from Gigabyte (mem clock @ 1000MHz and heatsink with a fan).

Hope this helps.

 

[GollumSmeagol]

I've just looked at XtremeGear's webpage, and they seem to be mixing the model number and the picture (they quote the "D" model, but they put in the "VP" picture).

If you're still shopping and want to catch them, you may get lucky and manage to squeeze a VP version (the TurboForce, that is) out of them because of the wrong picture - let them learn the product range they sell.