Supercharge your gaming with the power of an NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6600 GPU. The NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6600 GPUs deliver best-in-class performance and advanced visual effects for next-generation games. The only GPU in its class with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and with support for PCI Express, the GeForce 6600 delivers ultra-realistic effects, unmatched features, and rock-solid stability so you can play your game the way it's meant to be played. Features: - NVIDIA® CineFX™ 3.0 Technology Powers the next generation of cinematic realism. Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 enables stunning and complex special effects. Next-generation shader architecture delivers faster and smoother game play. - NVIDIA® UltraShadow™ II Technology Enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games, like id Software's Doom 3, that feature complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects. - 64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending Based on the OpenEXR technology from Industrial Light & Magic, NVIDIA's 64-bit texture implementation sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. - NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology Delivers up to 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on over 60 top PC games. - NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC) 3.0 Technology Allows the user to adjust color controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colors in all conditions. - Integrated TV Encoder Provides best-of-class TV-out functionality for resolutions up to 1024x768. - Simultaneous Watch and Record With the simultaneous watch and record capability, you can record live TV while you are watching a recorded TV show or a DVD for the ultimate in multitasking capability. - NVIDIA® PureVideo™ Technology The combination of high-definition video processors and NVIDIA DVD decoder software delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for all video content to turn your PC into a high-end home theater. (Feature requires supported video software.) - Adaptable Programmable Video Processor PureVideo's programmable technology adapts to new video encoding formats as they are developed to provide a future-proof video solution. (Feature requires supported video software.) - Intellisample™ 3.0 Technology The industry's fastest antialiasing delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. Visual quality is taken to new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern. - Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) Part of the NVIDIA Forceware Unified Software Environment (USE). The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software. - nView™ Multi-Display Technology The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. - High-Definition MPEG-2 Hardware Acceleration Smoothly playback all MPEG-2 video with minimal CPU usage so the PC is free to do other work. Battery life is extended when watching DVDs while running on battery. MPEG-2 is the standard format for DVDs, is accepted as a format for HD-DVD, and is also used for HD broadcast. - High-Quality Real-Time Video Recording Get full digital video recording functionality without losing data. With NVIDIA PureVideo technology, high-quality recording preserves picture detail while also using minimal space to store videos on the hard drive. - WMV-HD Hardware Acceleration Playback videos in Microsoft's Windows Media Video High Definition (WMV-HD) format without skipping frames or losing video detail. Accepted by the HD-DVD consortium as a new HD format, WMV-HD is now part of Windows XP to make it easy for users to edit and save their favorite videos. - Advanced Spatial Temporal De-interlacing Smoothes video and DVD playback on progressive displays to deliver a crisp, clear picture that rivals high-end home theater systems. - Vibrant Color Temperature Correction Color temperature correction makes actors' faces appear natural, rather than washed out and pale, when playing videos on LCD and CRT displays.