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Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
3d Mark 2001 SE is a bit weird....
16900. Not as high as I thought. But then my system is not the fastest, bandwisth not the best.
On 2003 the CARD is normally the limiter...on 2001 the cpu / mem is too
If it is Vanilla do you have to put Strawberry sauce on it or is it sweet enough? (I am talking of it as if it is ice cream)
I could test it in a 2.7ghz athlon system for you if you wantI'd love to get this in an FX system...a reall yfasy 64bit beast OR Pentium Extreme...cos my system is definately not showing this card at it's best.
Haven't run 2001 yet..will do later
Shall try increments of 5...I guess the core is the beast...the ram is gonna be the slow bit
The 6800 are good cards.
I got an Inno3D 6800 from Dabs for £180
http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/comp...quicklinx=37XH
Managed to overclock it to 380/850 with the stock cooler.
Had to RMA it as the card didn't output a DVI signal between the post screens and windows, couldn't boot up with DVI at all.
Think my problem was a rare one as other people never reported the same problem.
I'm in two minds whether to order another or push the boat out for a 6800GT.
I highly reccommend taking the splurge and making the jump to a GT, those extra 4-pipes make a hell of a difference and you will seriously notice it in future games. In the SOURCE engine (see the thread with the benchies) with all details whacked up, the 6800 trails the GT and Ultra by as much as 50% in some cases. And 6800's are unmoddable to 16-pipes too.
ASUS ROG G751 w. 980M
Rivatuner can now mod them to 16 pipesAnd 6800's are unmoddable to 16-pipes too.
I wish the availability of the 6800 series would improve. The card's have been out ages and stocks are still poor.
You've got 6800's selling between £180-£240
6800GT's from £256-£320
6800 Ultra's from £340-£380
I heard its impossible to flash back though on a 6800, once you flash a GT or Ultra BIOS that fails, you're stuck with an RMA or paperweight... whereas ATI you can flash it back.
ASUS ROG G751 w. 980M
I wish the availability of the 6800 series would improve. The card's have been out ages and stocks are still poor.
You've got 6800's selling between £180-£240
6800GT's from £256-£320
6800 Ultra's from £340-£380
That is just wrong - there is loads of stock just sells out quick - I know Scan had 200 odd Gainwards on a Friday had them all gone by Monday
Looks like the demand for then is too great.
It's a pain in the butt because I've still got Far Cry and Doom 3 to play through but I want a 6800GT to do it justice.
1280x1024 with all the eye candy, to match the native res of my TFT.
My 9800 flashed to pro speeds struggles at that.
Plays Enemy Territory and Call of Duty nicely, just the new batch of games and upcoming ones (HL2 and F.E.A.R - god that looks good!) are starting to struggle.
Had the 9800 for a year now and it's given me stellar service.
Might pre-order the BFG 6800GT OC from PC World, but I'm hearing reports that the custom cooling BFG have on there is not as good as the reference nvidia cooler.
BFG shipped their early batches of cards with the reference cooler but are now shipping with their own custom one.
Where did you read that ?I heard its impossible to flash back though on a 6800, once you flash a GT or Ultra BIOS that fails, you're stuck with an RMA or paperweight... whereas ATI you can flash it back.
I should think that even if you totaly screw the card up, booting off a PCI card should allow you to reflash it.
Ive not read about this at all, but it certainly seems weird if its true (and id like to know how it works !)
RivaTuner is a software mod.
If you soft mod a 6800 to enable the extra 4 pipes and it screws up, simply disable the option in RivaTuner and reboot, then back to 12 pipes.
If you physically flash a 6800 with a 6800GT bios for example and the extra 4 pipes don't work, your basically stuffed.
The 6800GT bios would enable the 4 pipes but when you flash back to the 6800 bios, the extra 4 pipes would still be enabled.
If you do a full reflash the BIOS, where does the card get the information to use the 4 piplines from ?
Here you go Agent, I found it for ya.
Read it here... http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...6800-oc_5.htmlBefore getting to the tests, I can’t help expressing my thoughts on the subject that worries every good overclocker with respect to the GeForce 6800. So, the question sounds like this: Is it possible to turn on all of the 16 pipelines on the NVIDIA GeForce 6800?
Yes, it is! This is easy: just flash the BIOS from the GeForce 6800 Ultra. After the BIOS re-flash, the graphics processor enables all 16 pixel pipelines and the card becomes… NON-OPERATIONAL!
Why? Because those four missing pipelines hadn’t been disabled just for nothing – they have certain defects, which show themselves as artifacts in 3D applications after you enable those pipelines. You won’t have the opportunity of returning things back easily: after flashing back the BIOS from the 12-pipelined GeForce 6800 you’ll see that the situation remains the same – the card still has 16 pipelines and also has those 3D artifacts. In order to disable the defective pipe-work and restore the card’s operability you will need special software and a specially modified version of the BIOS.
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I was doing some google searches on this today and it IS possible to flash it back. Its just not a simple process anymore
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