Leadtek WinFast 6600 GT and DEll 4500

[cn]

Hi,

I got my 6600 GT last night from NewEgg.com for $155.

First thing I noticed is that the box did not have a factory seal. I was expecting a factory sealed box. If you got one from NewEgg did it come sealed? Should I RMA and get a new one?

I also run 3D Mark and got these results

3D Mark 2001 -- ~11500
3D Mark 03 -- ~7500
3D Mark05 -- 2993

Are these good results? My machine is a Dell Dimension 4500 with 768Mg memory and an extra hard drive. What do you gus think?

1) About the results
2) I am concerned this was an open box somebody returned. Should I RMA it back?

THanks for any help,

cn

 

[Powermoloch]

First of all, congrats with the card and scores is normal by its standards. My first question is that what is your system specs...then I can try help you out a lil more :thumbsup:

 

[cn]

My specs are

Dell Dimension 4500
2.4 GHz CPU
768 Mb memory
One 40 Gig hardrive and antoher 120 Gig drive
DVD/RW
diskette drive
sound card (I forget which one)
Dell 2005FPW monitor
and, of course, the Leadtek 6600 GT

Thanks,

cn

 

[Eureka]

Factory seal is just a little tape on the box. And yes, I think that should be close to normal 6600GT... but I think it's a tad low. I believe my OC'd 6600GT got a 3800 or something.

Norm

 

[cn]

What did you overclock it to?

 

[Eureka]

I don't recommend you do this... but 565/1220.

Norm

 

[Eureka]

Nope, it's my mistake. I just redid 3DMark05, got a 3395.

Norm

 

[Piuc2020]

Wow, 565/1220!

Thats a nice overclock if I may say so.

 

[Eureka]

XFX, great overclockers, bad cooling though.

Norm

 

[imhungry]

That's weird norm.

I've got mine in a dimension4600 and I get ~3700 (3688, but I can push it still).

OC at 565 / 1170 (stable :-D stock cooling).

2.8 Ghz / 512 MB ram.

and yeah 2.9+ is perfectly normal, especially on a dell.

 

[Eureka]

What settings are you using. I did the 3 game tests and 2 cpu tests, 1024, no AA, Filt normal, everything else off.

Norm

 

[imhungry]

Everything off including vsync, no optimizations, and high perf. High qual will probably bump me back a couple hundred points, actually, so I guess we're even. Ah..filter is at optimal.

 

[imhungry]

And for 6X00 gt or non-gt users (ALL CARDS!)...I highly reccomend ngo / xg drivers, they are excellent and have great. In fact, the 3688 score was with the 81.94 xg driver...

I THINK I hit higher with the 78.03 though, I can't remember. //

 

[Eureka]

I'm using it with the 81.94...

Norm

 

[anandtechrocks]

Originally posted by: Piuc2020
Wow, 565/1220!

Thats a nice overclock if I may say so.

Are you kidding?? My 6600 GT goes to 600/1250 for benching and 595/1230 for everyday use. I get 4450 3D Marks in '05!

 

[Eureka]

On stock or aftermarket?

Norm

 

[cn]

I just downloadded coolbits so that I can overclock it. Using coolbits and the 71.89 NVidia drivers (from their website, not the Leadtek drivers that came with the card), I could only overclock to 550 / 1.02 Ghz. If I try to go higher, the tests fail (with coolbits, yo must click on the "run tests" tab, and then if it passes, you can accept the changes.

Should I be using the Leadtek drivers from the CD instead?

I got 3DMark05 with a score of 3164.

How are you guys overclocking so much? Are you using coolbits?

Also, you guys think it is no problem the box was not sealed?

 

[cn]

one more question... Are you using coolbits v1 or v2?

 

[imhungry]

Originally posted by: anandtechrocks

Originally posted by: Piuc2020
Wow, 565/1220!

Thats a nice overclock if I may say so.

Are you kidding?? My 6600 GT goes to 600/1250 for benching and 595/1230 for everyday use. I get 4450 3D Marks in '05!

And you probably have a PCI-X version...?

AGP is clocked lower stock and generally can't go as high as PCI-X can.
My highest is 580 / 1200, any higher is not stable after 72C.

I'd get the latest version of coolbits, although it's just a locked feature in forceware drivers.

Rivatuner is probably the best / safest tool though.

 

[cn]

Mine is AGP. Anyway, how are you guys overclocking so much? Coolbits does let me go over the values I mentioned...

 

[rmed64]

My Chaintech 6600GT AGP goes to 567/1040
I get 3600 3Dmarks in 2k5
I'm guessing your cpu may be holding you back some, though I have a Sempron 2200+ @ 1.78GHz. Are you using a Celeron 2.4?

 

[cn]

Are you using the nvidia drivers from the Nvidia web site? How did you overclock? Are you using coolbits?

My rig is a Dell 2.4 GHz (see previous posting).

Also, I upgraded to the 81.94 drivers and got lower marks on 3DMark03 and 3DMark05. So I went back to the 71.89 drivers and got my marks back up again.... I was expecting that newer drivers would give me similar or better marks...


Also, my fan is always on. It changes speed depending on what I am doing (working or playing) but it is always on. Is this the way it should be?

 

[cn]

bump

 

[compgeek89]

My 6600 GT got 3700 at stock

but it a much faster CPU and much better RAM.... so i dont know if your scores are ok or not.

 

[Relion]

Originally posted by: cn
Hi,

I got my 6600 GT last night from NewEgg.com for $155.

First thing I noticed is that the box did not have a factory seal. I was expecting a factory sealed box. If you got one from NewEgg did it come sealed? Should I RMA and get a new one?

I also run 3D Mark and got these results

3D Mark 2001 -- ~11500
3D Mark 03 -- ~7500
3D Mark05 -- 2993

Are these good results? My machine is a Dell Dimension 4500 with 768Mg memory and an extra hard drive. What do you gus think?

1) About the results
2) I am concerned this was an open box somebody returned. Should I RMA it back?

THanks for any help,

cn

My Leadtek died on me last week

I am telling you this because I think the cause was:

ALMOST INEXISTENT thermal compound on the chip...so check it out...is easy removing the HSF on that card ^^ ... other that that...great card...u can OC it a lil I think...