Once again as you guys might have read i am buying a geforce 6600 gt, its been over a year since i last used a nvidia card and times have changed! firstly, what drivers are best? should i stick to the nvidia drivers or are there a similar alternative to the omega drivers?

what does nvidia have instead of ati tool? ati tool is the best oc app ever, is there anything similar or am i stuck with rivatuner ?

finally!!! does the 6600gt have any pieplines or anything that need to be unlockeD? if so can you point me to a guide?

nvidia people have rivatuner, whichis awesome. i don't know whether there's anything to unlock on 6600 gt chips, though, i don't think so, though. check guru3d's driver and modded driver forums for driver questions, but really it all depends on your system, drivers react differently for different systems.

guru3d's rivatuner forum (the rivatuner official forum) has everything you need to learn about unlocking pipes/shaders in it, just make sure you're reading about RC 15.2, not 15.1 (15.2 can unlock hardware masked pipes/shaders as well as software masked)

For overclockin, u could just unlock coolbits (which is a tab in Advanced Display Properties) for nvidia cards.....just google for it

About drivers...heard Omega Nvidia drivers are good.

omega nvidia drivers have never done anything for me at all . . . riva tuner is awesome though, get it, use it, love it

^^ yep I agree too