HOT: Refurb Leadtek 6600 128MB PCI-E: $66 at the egg

[dwrobert]

got this from forums, newegg has the Leadtek 6600 128MB PCI-E for $66 + $1 shipping

Link to card

 

[foolish501]

bump for this, this is a great deal, i have a 6600 card, and i paid more than twice this (but i do have 256mb ram), great price

 

[jalaram]

Great find. Shame I don't have a PCI-E slot.

 

[unarmdragon]

i don't really know anything about overclocking, but is there anyway to make this into a 6600gt?

 

[pxc]

Originally posted by: unarmdragon
i don't really know anything about overclocking, but is there anyway to make this into a 6600gt?

The cards can very often be overclocked to the same core speed as a 6600GT (from 300MHz to 500MHz), but it's impossible to run the 550MHz memory on these 6600 cards at 1GHz like a 6600GT.

 

[rise]

not to mention that i would bet a very high percentage of "refurbs" are originally rma'd because they are poor clockers, sad to say.

 

[unclebud]

that is what i was thinking

 

[mrrman]

me have no luck with refurbs...pass on all these

 

[pxc]

Originally posted by: rise4310
not to mention that i would bet a very high percentage of "refurbs" are originally rma'd because they are poor clockers, sad to say.

All 5 of the 6200/6600 refurbs I bought at newegg got 225MHz-260MHz overclocks on the core. The minimum memory overclock was 100MHz (2 6600s) and the other 3 got 150MHz-200MHz memory overclocks. 2 of the 6200s didn't unlock successfully (1 did).

I did get a Sapphire x700 Pro refurb at newegg that overclocked horribly (10MHz on the core and 15MHz on the memory). :|