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Gigabyte Geforce 6800
The 6800 vanilla is a crippled version of the GT/Ultra series, with only 12
rendering pipelines and 128MB of memory. Much like the 9800SE or 9500 series
of cards, there are software hacks available to unlock the extra pipelines.
This isn't guaranteed to work, but it's certainly worth considering.
Even with 12 pipelines, performance is pretty good, lying somewhere in between
the 6600GT and the 6800GT. A more sensible name might have been the 6700. Much
like the 6600GT, it struggles in the higher resolutions, but is quite happy
at the 1280x1024 sweet spot.
The biggest selling point of this Geforce 6800 is the fan-less heatpipe cooler.
A pair of heatpipes wrap around to the back of the card, transferring heat to
a chunky secondary heatsink. This arrangement means that despite the size of
the cooler, the card still fits in one slot, but there may not be sufficient
clearance to fit it in some SFF PCs. Cooling is perfectly adequate in an open
system, but case ventilation of some kind may be needed for cramped cases.
This is the fastest card you can get if you insist on a silent computer, and
performance isn't severely compromised. You can forget about overclocking though,
it is not a very practical proposition with the passive cooling.
At
£180, the price isn't much higher than what you might pay for a fan
cooled 6800, and the price sits between the 6600 GT and the 6800 GT. Unfortunately,
it doesn't quite have the value for money of either of these cards.
| Manufacturer |
Gigabyte |
| Model |
Geforce 6800 |
| Price Inc VAT |
£180.42 |
| Value For Money Rating |
41.8 |
| Retailer Website |
www.dabs.com |
| Interface |
AGP 8X |
| GPU |
nVidia Geforce 6800 |
| GPU Rendering Pipelines |
12 |
| GPU Clock Speed |
325MHz |
| Memory Size |
128MB |
| Memory Type |
256-Bit DDR |
| Memory Clock Speed |
350MHz |
| Cooling System |
Heatpipe and Heatsinks |
| Power Connectors |
1x Large 4-pin Molex |
| Slots Occupied |
1 |
| VGA Outputs |
1 |
| DVI Outputs |
1 |
| TV-Out |
Yes |
| VIVO |
No |
| Adapters |
DVI-VGA |
| Bundled Cables |
S-Video |
| Bundled Full Games |
Spellforce: The Order of Dawn, Thief: Deadly Shadows,
Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising |
| Misc. Bundled |
None |
Benchmarks
| 3D Mark 2003 Standard Test |
7,533 |
| Aquamark 3 Standard Test |
46,916 |
| Unreal
Tournament 2004 Maximum Detail |
| 1024 x 768 0x AA 0x AF (FPS) |
119 |
| 1280 x 1024 2x AA 2x AF (FPS) |
122 |
| 1600 x 1200 4x AA 4x AF (FPS) |
64 |
| Doom
3, High Detail |
| 1024 x 768 0x AA 0x AF (FPS) |
72 |
| 1280 x 1024 2x AA 2x AF (FPS) |
47 |
| 1600 x 1200 4x AA 4x AF (FPS) |
23 |
| Half-Life
2 Maximum Detail |
| 1024 x 768 0x AA 0x AF (FPS) |
79 |
| 1280 x 1024 2x AA 2x AF (FPS) |
26 |
| 1600 x 1200 4x AA 4x AF (FPS) |
5 |
| Far
Cry Maximum Detail |
| 1024 x 768 0x AA 0x AF (FPS) |
56 |
| 1280 x 1024 2x AA 2x AF (FPS) |
36 |
| 1600 x 1200 4x AA 4x AF (FPS) |
19 |
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