At $199 online, the Chaintech SE6600G perfectly nails NVIDIA's projected street price for the GeForce 6600 GT. Sub-$200 cards are really the sweet spot for mid-range graphics, and as we saw in our initial GeForce 6600 GT review, NVIDIA's new mid-range wonder impressively offers better performance than the previous generation of high-end cards. The GeForce 6600 GT also supports SLI, so if one isn't enough, it's possible to tackle games with two cards running in tandem.

Great performance, sub-$200 price points, and SLI capabilities are shared by all GeForce 6600 GT cards, though. What makes Chaintech's offering unique?

Certainly not the color. The Chaintech card is a study in turquoise, with only a clear cooling fan and a pair of silver heat sinks to break up the monotony. I actually don't mind the look of the card; the aesthetic just doesn't stand out from the sea of turquoise and blue that washes over most of the cards we'll be looking at today.

While I'm not too keen on the aesthetic, I do like the Chaintech card's cooling solution. For starters, the memory heat sinks aren't connected to the GPU cooler, which should keep them from picking up excess heat from the GPU. The GPU cooler also makes plenty of room for air flow around the fan, fingertips be damned.

Like most of the other cards in this comparison, the Chaintech GeForce 6600 GT comes with a DVI, VGA, and S-Video outputs. Chaintech spices up the card's output capabilities with a healthy cable bundle, though.

In addition to the same NVIDIA-branded composite, component, and S-Video dongle that we saw in Albatron's GeForce 6600 cable bundle, the Chaintech card also comes with a DVI-to-VGA adapter and an S-Video cable. But wait, there's more.

Chaintech also throws in a handful of software titles, including WinDVD Cinema, WinDVD Creator, a copy of Painkiller, and a demo coaster, er, CD. With demos of dated games like Max Payne and Serious Sam 2, the demo CD is little more than filler. However, the full version of Painkiller is very nice indeed. Painkiller's a pretty recent game, and by all accounts, it's a lot of fun, too.

Chaintech finishes off its GeForce 6600 GT with a two year warranty that covers both parts and labor. The two-year warranty is on-par with most of the other cards in this comparison and seems pretty reasonable to me.