6600 pci-e unlock?

[ricetek]

can you unlock regular 128mb 6600's pci-e cards? meaning like pipes?

 

[Ackbar]

There's nothing to unlock.

 

[Donshyoku]

The GeForce 6600 and 6600GT are both 8 pipe cards, so there is nothing extra to unlock to make it a GT. The only difference is core/mem clock speeds. Most 6600's will hit 600MHz core (that of the GT) pretty well, but the 1GHz memory is hard to hit as the GT uses GDDR3 which allows for higher clocks.

 

[ricetek]

sounds good my friend just bought one and wanted to see what hte main diff between a 6600 and a 6600gt were. only clocks i see. ill tell him to push it

 

[ameoba]

not 'only clocks'. The GT is using a completely different type of memory to get those clocks. There are very few cases where somebody is able to get 6600s memory up to 6600GT speeds.

Still, you should be able to get a really good overclock on the core +)

 

[ricetek]

sounds good as long as the memory oc's 15-20% it should be fine