Gigabyte GV-3D1 Dual GeForce 6600GT Videocard Review

Gigabyte has come up with a very interesting alternative to the dual card SLI option; what they’ve done is placed two nVidia GeForce 6600GT cores and two sets of memory onto a single videocard PCB! Like a regular pair of SLI compatible cards, the two individual cores split the PCI Express 16x bus and each core gets a direct PCI Express 8x connection to the rest of the system though one standard PCI Express x16 slot. Cool huh?!

Of course, what we’re describing is the very unique Gigabyte GV-3D1 dual GeForce 6600GT PCI Express videocard. It comes bundled in along with the GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard, and at the moment will only "officially" support SLI mode on this Gigabyte board

..Those of you who are interested in the Gigabyte GV-3D1 might like to know that at the moment, the videocard is only sold bundled with the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard, with a retail price of $610 CDN ($499 US) for both. Considering the price of a regular SLI motherboard and two GeForce 6600GT videocards, users end up saving around $100 CDN by going this route.

The Gigabyte GV-3D1 is a great pioneer and hopefully we see more cards like it in the future!

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