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The DDR2 Joker Upgrades GeForce 6600
The scene begins with NVIDIA personnel walking out onto a dark stage at North America's largest LAN gaming event, Quakecon, in the year 2004. The lights go up and the screen shines with an image of the first PCIe-only video card, the 6600 GT. Accompanying their flagship for the midrange graphics cards is the 6600. It is hard to believe that over a year has passed since the world moved from AGP to PCIe, not to mention how it wasn't long ago that we all felt that 3 vertex shaders and 8 pixel shaders was to die for. The $149-$179 price range was close to the heart of gamers, as they could begin to adopt PCIe for their gaming systems. ...
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