Choze Posted September 20, 2005 Posted September 20, 2005 Geforce 6800LE for £90 from http://www.overclockers.co.uk Best card at the price by far and you can possibly(not guaranteed) unlock the extra pipelines to make it kinda like a 6800 GT which makes it even more of a bargain. Now i have a 16 pipe card. Up from a 8 pipe card. FEAR runs perfectly no issues for example with all effects. I dont think my overclock is that great on the other hand as it artifacts if i push it too far but i doubt many people get a perfect unlock. BF2 and HL2 on some maps displays slight flickering on afew textures but its pretty minor and is rare. You can tell the pipelines are damaged and didnt get past QC for a GT. Much better than any 6600GT. I also can enable the new effects like HDR lighting which you cant on any other sub £150 cards or ATI card Will get a new pc when the windows comes or when DDR3 comes.
Shorty Posted September 20, 2005 Posted September 20, 2005 Glad to hear that it's good often hear some worrying things about anything with "LE" or "SE" stuck on the end, but sounds like this is ok. I recently bought a new card too, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, it's nice to see all the new things like pixel shading and shiny-ness huh?
Guest Offerman Posted September 20, 2005 Posted September 20, 2005 Not bad. Its been awhile since I dabbled in the arts of softmodded, and hard overclocking. Not really since last Summer. My last softmod was the same as Jordan, which was flashing our X800 Pro VIVOs with the XT PE BIOS. The Raddy X800 XT PE, still to this day flys like an eagle.
Choze Posted September 20, 2005 Author Posted September 20, 2005 Glad to hear that it's good often hear some worrying things about anything with "LE" or "SE" stuck on the end, but sounds like this is ok. I recently bought a new card too, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, it's nice to see all the new things like pixel shading and shiny-ness huh? Yeah the 6800LE are 6800 Ultras or GTs that fail quality testing and sold as cut down versions. Good thing is many are ok enough to unlock some extra performance out of them. You can never match a GT however but you can get close which i what makes them such good value. I can run the PS3 Luna demo just fine. Bit choppy however but it does all the effects like the hair and lighting. I can enable HDR lighting in games like Far Cry and Age of Empires III which only the 6800 and 7800 series can handle out of any Nvidia or Ati cards. Unlocking is a peice of cake and no risk with these cards because its done at software level. No bios flash just use rivatuner and restart your pc. Overclocking was easy with the leadtek because it already came with enhanced cooling. Do i need to do a volt increase to overclock further than what i can because the card doesnt heat up?
christophicus Posted September 20, 2005 Posted September 20, 2005 Ive been out of the hardware know for at least 7 months now ,is the le better then a vanilla 6800?
Dieter Posted September 20, 2005 Posted September 20, 2005 I recently bought a new card too, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, it's nice to see all the new things like pixel shading and shiny-ness huh? :bow: Sapphire 9800 Pro for the win! Best buy I've done in a long time. ...Well, my only other graphics card was a 150 euro Geforce FX5600 SE ripoff.... Read up before buying, people!
Choze Posted September 20, 2005 Author Posted September 20, 2005 Ive been out of the hardware know for at least 7 months now ,is the le better then a vanilla 6800? No. Inorder (AGP): Geforce 6800 LE 8 pipes 4 Vertex shaders default. 128MB DDR Geforce 6800 12 pipes 5 Vertex shaders default. 128MB DDR Geforce 6800 GT 16 pipes 6 Vertex shaders default. 256MB GDDR3 Geforce 6800 Ultra 16 pipes 6 Vertex shaders default. 256MB GDDR3 Both 6800 and LE can have their extra pipes and shader units unlocked. They are also underclocked. Ultra is the fastest. As you can see even if you unlock the RAM holds back the weaker two. PCIE is slightly different as you can get them in 256MB RAM but unlikely to unlock. :bow: Sapphire 9800 Pro for the win! Best buy I've done in a long time. ...Well, my only other graphics card was a 150 euro Geforce FX5600 SE ripoff.... Read up before buying, people! My card is much better than your card. 9800 PRO is well old on the other hand. 6800 replaced my 9700 PRO.
Guest Offerman Posted September 20, 2005 Posted September 20, 2005 Choze - a volt increase allows for increased overclocking because it provides more voltage to the core, allowing for it too naturally pull a faster clock cycle, so it thusly gives more stability. It does however cause a big increase in hit. So to answer your question - you would need to up the voltage if you have hit ure stable overclock limit with your current voltage setting.
Choze Posted September 20, 2005 Author Posted September 20, 2005 Choze - a volt increase allows for increased overclocking because it provides more voltage to the core, allowing for it too naturally pull a faster clock cycle, so it thusly gives more stability. It does however cause a big increase in hit. So to answer your question - you would need to up the voltage if you have hit ure stable overclock limit with your current voltage setting. Thanks, i might consider it. Requires a bios flash on the other hand.Temperatures only hit around 60ish C for me currently when being used in games. The extra fps might come on in handy :P
Domstercool Posted September 20, 2005 Posted September 20, 2005 *strokes his new pc he got last tuesday* 7800GT baby ^_^
Fierce_LiNk Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 *strokes his new pc he got last tuesday* 7800GT baby ^_^ Off topic, but does anyone think Domster is secretely (or not very:heh:) the richest man in the world?
Choze Posted September 21, 2005 Author Posted September 21, 2005 *strokes his new pc he got last tuesday* 7800GT baby ^_^ Could you buy me one?
Minlack Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 *strokes his new pc he got last tuesday* 7800GT baby ^_^ *strokes his new pc got a few weeks ago* 7800GTX baby!!!!! :P
Choze Posted September 21, 2005 Author Posted September 21, 2005 *strokes his new pc got a few weeks ago* 7800GTX baby!!!!! :P :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:
Domstercool Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 Damn you :P GTX is like £80 more of something daft, I thought £295 was enough :P
Guest Jordan Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 I'm happy with my X800 XTPE, i'll probably be moving over to nVidia if ATi don't pull their balls out and sort out the X1800 cards... as they can't TOUCH the 7800GTX.
Minlack Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 Damn you :P GTX is like £80 more of something daft, I thought £295 was enough :P I got my PC before the GT came out, a little after the GTX was released. TBH I prob would have gone for the GT is it was out then.
Guest Offerman Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 I'm happy with my X800 XTPE, i'll probably be moving over to nVidia if ATi don't pull their balls out and sort out the X1800 cards... as they can't TOUCH the 7800GTX. ATi wont take things lieing down. I mean the latest Xxxx series of cards where possibly shrouded by nVidias 6x00's. But thats very subjective. I still think ATi was king there. But the ATi redwash was blatently clear in the 9x00 verses the nVidia FX5x00 two Easters back. I don't ever think we will see another landslide like that - but we could see a noticable gap in the upcoming generation. Personally I am not really phased - I don't plan to upgrade during this generation anywho - I think my beast has at least another 12 months in it, but when I upgrade then it will be a serious upgrade. I might even make a special little savings acount for it.
Choze Posted September 21, 2005 Author Posted September 21, 2005 The 6xxx series did really well for Nvidia and have overclouded the ATI x series line. ATI need to comeback added better effects and performance to their new cards. Alot of x800 owners are annoyed that they cant enable all effects in the newest games due to lack of SM3.0 support in the x800 series. Nvidia are on a roll right now. Much better pound to performance ratio than ATI too. This is why i am happy with my 6800 7800 GTX is just miles ahead of the competition. Overkill IMO. The cost is pretty good however when you look at it as you get killer performance for the cost. Its that damn powerful.
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