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Re: Is this old GeForce 6600 GT toast?

pentiumspeed wrote on 2023-11-11, 01:36: What uses you are going to with this 6600 GT, I know this is mid range, kind of low end? Cheers, Purely for nostalgia purposes. I've been gradually piecing together some of my older builds that I had gotten rid of.

Re: Is this old GeForce 6600 GT toast?

It's the same problem that causes the PS3 YLOD in earlier models Hopefully 110nm NV43 chips aren't affected. I know the 90nm RSX chips had this issue. I recently spent quite a bit on a "Frankenstein PS3" (CECHA with a replacement 40nm RSX). As nostalgic as I am for this card, I won't be doing that …

Re: Is this old GeForce 6600 GT toast?

giantclam wrote on 2023-10-31, 23:34: Could you take a pic of this area to sate my curiosity please? =) […] Show full quote Could you take a pic of this area to sate my curiosity please? =) Looks about the same to me, but let me know if you see anything interesting. 😉

Re: Is this old GeForce 6600 GT toast?

Curious .... the two 100uf/16v caps...(I'll just focus on 1) https://imgur.com/Ycv8RVI.png Looking at the PCB, seems like they should be surface mount types, but thru-hole capacitors have been bodged into place? (hard to say from images, some PCBs have provision for both types) That'd be my clue …

Is this old GeForce 6600 GT toast?

Hello everyone - been a while since my last post. I just recently got back into retro builds and encountered a strange issue with a GeForce 6600 GT - circa 2004. The card displays an image with some garbled characters for a couple seconds, followed by the vertical green lines shown in the picture. …

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