XFX 6800 Ultra - b0rked

[steve threlfall]

Yes I agree! Its a very good card! But ATI's is much cheeper... Well some what I'm Still not shure what I want.. Maybe I'll even go Nvidia... I Must say I do Love the Gforce series Well how did the card perform? Did you play Farcry on it?

from all the reviews of 6800 ultras and x800pros that i have seen, they play farcry at 1600x1200 with everything maxed at a decent frame rate- good stuff

[myth]

from all the reviews of 6800 ultras and x800pros that i have seen, they play farcry at 1600x1200 with everything maxed at a decent frame rate- good stuff

I read a review that said the 6800 could only play Farcry at 1024 768 at max settings! I have been misslead! I also saw a review that took two screan shots while playing farcry.. The 6800's pic was blocky! While the ATI's was smoth! These are the only two reasons I was going for ATI! Please tell me this isnt true !

PS.

What do you mean when you say that the cards are dying? Like alwasy I heard nothing about it....

[steve threlfall]

I read a review that said the 6800 could only play Farcry at 1024 768 at max settings! I have been misslead! I also saw a review that took two screan shots while playing farcry.. The 6800's pic was blocky! While the ATI's was smoth! These are the only two reasons I was going for ATI! Please tell me this isnt true !

PS.

What do you mean when you say that the cards are dying? Like alwasy I heard nothing about it....

cards dying = currently theres a high fail rate on the new boards (6800ultras) a lot of returns.

That blocky screenshot, magazine by any chance? they werent using the correct drivers. The 6800ultra supports shader model 3 so surely there should be no problmes with farcry graphics there.

Pecking order correct me if im wrong... x800xt pe currently top of the pile with the x800xt and 6800ultra pritty much equal. Then we have the x800pros which arent a hell of a lot slower than the others and every one of these cards is capable especially with farcry \/

6800ultra 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF, 37.3fps

x800pro 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF 30fps

[lpobjoy]

I had not heard that there have been lots of failuers/returns with these cards and now im begining to see the whole picture!

on thursady i finally got my loveley xfx 6800 ultra, installed it and everything looked fine.

Until i tried to play Red faction, it ran like a dog, so i compared it to my 9800 pro and the ATI kicked its A$$!!

i thought this was very strang as the 6800 is supposed to be the best card righ and i did spend like £400!!

finally i get 3d mark and am getting iver 12000 marks, which is nice, but i am getting graphic distortions and artefacts all over the place.

Does this sound like a failure to you??

Many thanks

L.

[MAS]

from all the reviews of 6800 ultras and x800pros that i have seen, they play farcry at 1600x1200 with everything maxed at a decent frame rate- good stuff

I should think so too for £400.

[MAS]

finally i get 3d mark and am getting iver 12000 marks, which is nice, but i am getting graphic distortions and artefacts all over the place.

Does this sound like a failure to you??

Many thanks

L.

If the card isnt overclocked and you're getting artifacts, yeah, it's probably dodgy and I'd return it. If you're overclocked it, obviously it's a different matter.

[lpobjoy]

ok, you guys might find this very interesting!!

had a look at the bios that shipped witht he XFX 6800 ultra and the bios revision on the card was 5.40.02.03.04

the current revision that should have been on the card is 5.40.02.03.14 (there is a sticker with it on the card itself!)

thats more than 10 revisions out!!

It would seem to me somone has messed up here, can anyone else confirm an old bios??

L.