6600gt

[C0RR0SIVE]

so the RAM doesnt get to hot if i dont have them covered then :O? and what about the chipset HSI thingy? that isnt covered with anything when the vf700 cu is mounted! as it seems not everyone has that chipset chip at all! what is it for? does it get too hot if i dont have it cooled ?

That little itty bitty chip on the graphics card converts the PCIe and AGP signals to the other.... Something like that. It gets rather hot on my card, and only the AGP based 6600GT has that chip. The PCIe based cards do not have it because it was orignaly made for the PCIe bus. THATS WHAT I THINK!!!! Not exactly sure lol

 

[Avalanch3]

im pretty sure it was orginally made for PCIe as well...same as the 6800GS...and now thats coming across for the AGP owners to

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

If Nvidia wanted to they could make the HSI chip compatable with the 7800GTX.....

 

[Avalanch3]

If Nvidia wanted to they could make the HSI chip compatable with the 7800GTX.....

its not worth it though...that card is really fast and demanding so it needss the pci-e speed

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

They haven't maxed out the AGP bus as far as I know. Besides i'm sure most peoples CPU would limit them....