Gigabyte fanless 6600--opinions?

I'm considering getting a Gigabyte GV-N66256DP (a fanless GeForce 6600
with 256MB DDR):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125189

Current system specs:
A64 3000+ S754
Asus K8N-E (AGP 8x)
1GB DDR400

I have an eVGA 5900XT currently, which a friend offered to buy from me.
This 6600 looks attractive since it doesn't have a fan (I've heard
enough whiny video card fans seize up and die--and the 5900XT is
sounding a little suspicious lately anyway, which, before you ask, I
have told my friend about).

My question is, would the 6600 be any faster than the 5900XT? I've
looked at the usual places (Tom's and Anand's) and I haven't been able
to find any direct comparison between the two cards (or any benchmark
of the 6600 AGP at all, for that matter). I realize that the 5900XT
probably has more raw pixel-pushing power (it definitely has more
memory bandwidth, on paper at least), but how does it compare when it
comes to newer titles?

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I'm considering getting a Gigabyte GV-N66256DP (a fanless GeForce 6600
with 256MB DDR):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125189

Current system specs:
A64 3000+ S754
Asus K8N-E (AGP 8x)
1GB DDR400

I have an eVGA 5900XT currently, which a friend offered to buy from me.
This 6600 looks attractive since it doesn't have a fan (I've heard
enough whiny video card fans seize up and die--and the 5900XT is
sounding a little suspicious lately anyway, which, before you ask, I
have told my friend about).

My question is, would the 6600 be any faster than the 5900XT? I've
looked at the usual places (Tom's and Anand's) and I haven't been able
to find any direct comparison between the two cards (or any benchmark
of the 6600 AGP at all, for that matter). I realize that the 5900XT
probably has more raw pixel-pushing power (it definitely has more
memory bandwidth, on paper at least), but how does it compare when it
comes to newer titles?

The 6600 vanilla isn't much of an impovement over the 5900 especially the 64
bit versions which are noticeably slower. Be careful about that,there are a
few different versions out there..