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     The days of buying a video card and getting three or four retail games is past, but Albatron does include a bundle of CDs.  The CD's from right to left are the driver CD, ARX Fatalis, a gamepack CD, and WinDVD creator.  The Gamepack CD includes, AOWII, Max Payne, Zax, Beambreaker and Rally Trophy.

Testing & Overclocking

     Let's get right to the fun stuff.  I pulled out a few games and video benches to throw at this card and to see what it's made of.  We are going to include benches from Doom3, Half Life 2, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament 2004, Painkiller, 3Dmark2001, 3Dmark2003, 3Dmark2005, and finally Aquamark.  I'm using the latest patches for all games and benches and the drivers are the latest 66.93's from nVidia.  The rest of the system is below.

     Let's talk about overclocking first.  Albatron includes an overclocking tool (coolbits) on their driver CD.  It's just a registry patch that unlocks the overclocking tab built into the nvidia drivers.  This feature allows you to manually overclock your core and/or your memory or you can allow it to auto detect what it thinks is the highest setting.  A great feature in the nvidia drivers is the ability to overclock the core for 3D applications only, it has a 2D and a 3D setting.  The default settings on the Albatron PC6600GT PCI-E card is 500 core and 1000 memory.

     That is about where I've seen most 6600GT's max out.  You could probably get higher but it's going to take more than the reference cooler to get you there.  75MHz on the core and 150MHz on the memory isn't too shabby, but you will soon see that it really didn't make a whole lot of difference on the game benches.