Page 3 - PSU & Installation

Power Supply demandNVIDIA recommends a standard 300 Watt Power Supply for the 6600 series, so basically anyone has that at minimum in their system these days.

Architecture Characteristics of the GeForce 6 Series

• Pixel pipelines: 16 / 12 / 8
• Superscalar shader: Yes
• Pixel shader operations/pixel: 8
• Pixel shader operations/clock: 128
• Pixel shader precision: 32 bits
• Single texture pixels/clock: 16
• Dual texture pixels/clock: 8
• Adaptive Anisotropic Filtering: Yes
• Z-stencil pixels/clock: 32

Let's talk and compare a little. The GeForce 6600 series was manufactured at 0.11µ where I expected it to be 0.13µ!

Get ready for the most vibrant, lifelike, and elegant graphics ever experienced on a PC. The groundbreaking NVIDIA® GeForce 6 Series of graphics processing units (GPUs) and their revolutionary technologies power worlds where reality and fantasy meet; worlds in which new standards are set for performance, visual quality, realism, and video functionality. The GeForce 6 Series GPUs deliver powerful, elegant graphics to drench your senses, immersing you in unparalleled worlds of visual effects for the ultimate PC experience.

The Installation
It's truly not hard to install a graphics card yourself in this day and age. Especially with brands like ATI and NVIDIA, who both use unified driver sets. Here however are a few guidelines to follow for installation of a new graphics card.

• If you have a new product then make sure you have the latest drivers on your HD, grab them from our download section and preferably go with an official or WHQL (Microsoft certified) driver.
• First uninstall your current graphics card's drivers carefully, this is exceedingly important if the older graphics card was from a different chipset manufacturer.
• Now power down the PC and pull out the power cable.
• Insert the new graphics card in the APG or PCI-Express slot, secure it with a screw, connect the monitor and boot up windows.
• Run the driver installation, then restart and you are set to go.

That's all. Also important, make sure you have the latest version of DirectX (9.0c) installed. If you experience compatibility issues, please make sure you have installed the latest version of your mainboard drivers, have a look in our extensive download section I'd say.

Latest software Downloads

• For NVIDIA Cards - ForceWare drivers
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0c

Since we are on the topic of drivers let's talk a little about them and a trend that's been developing in the past 12 months with driver optimizations regarding performance versus image quality.

Installed, secured, up and running. We are good to go!