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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Swamp_Thing on April 22, 2005, 10:47:05 pm

Title: My new XFX 6800 card finally arrived! Yay!!
Post by: Swamp_Thing on April 22, 2005, 10:47:05 pm

Ph33r my new gfx power!!
 ;7   ;7

(http://www.xfxforce.co.uk/pineimages/temp/XFX-FX6800-128mb-FGBG.jpg)

Came with X2: The threat, and Commandos 3. Rather poor, the game bundle. But the card is excellent, and it has extreme overclocking capabilities. I could have gotten the 6800GT, or the Ultra, but those are way too expensive. They cost the same an entire mid-range PC does.

http://www.xfxforce.co.uk/product_view.php?sku=PVT40KND (http://www.xfxforce.co.uk/product_view.php?sku=PVT40KND)

Title: My new XFX 6800 card finally arrived! Yay!!
Post by: phatosealpha on April 22, 2005, 10:54:50 pm

Pretty good card.  I've got it's bigger bro, an XFX 6800GT.  Good card, good luck unlocking the pipes.

Title: My new XFX 6800 card finally arrived! Yay!!
Post by: Scuddie on April 23, 2005, 02:40:50 am

So why didn't you get the 6600GT?  I would assume it has just as much power, only slightly slower.  It is after all the same card...  unofficially.

Title: My new XFX 6800 card finally arrived! Yay!!
Post by: phatosealpha on April 23, 2005, 04:38:48 am

OC and unlocking potential, I'd imagine.  A 6600gt and 6800NU perform similarly, but the 6800 has good OC potential, and also the potential to unlock the extra 4 pipelines and essentially turn it into a 6800GT.  6800 Ultra speeds are probably out of the question though.

The real question may be "why this and not an x800XL?  AGP?"

Title: My new XFX 6800 card finally arrived! Yay!!
Post by: Setekh on April 23, 2005, 07:13:00 am

I remember the days when I chased after awesome graphics cards...

Now I'm on a laptop. ;)

Title: My new XFX 6800 card finally arrived! Yay!!
Post by: Swamp_Thing on April 23, 2005, 05:14:48 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Setekh
I remember the days when I chased after awesome graphics cards...

Now I'm on a laptop. ;)

I haven´t taken my laptop out of the case in months.
:p

Quote

So why didn't you get the 6600GT?

Because is costs almost twice the 6800 over here. My card costed about 289 euros, the GT costs 448 euros. It´s a too big a diference for such smaller gain.
And not an X800 because i don´t buy ATI. I´m a nVidia man, all the way.
:nod:

Title: My new XFX 6800 card finally arrived! Yay!!
Post by: Grey Wolf on April 24, 2005, 02:28:25 pm

Quite nice, even though I think you confused the 6600GT and 6800GT in your last post. I'm going to be picking up the MSI 6800GT in a few days for the computer I'm building, and from what I've seen, I'd say we're both going to be very happy with our cards.

Title: My new XFX 6800 card finally arrived! Yay!!
Post by: Swamp_Thing on April 24, 2005, 08:05:31 pm

Yeah, my mistake. I thought it was the 6800GT.