GeForce 6800 GT -- best price\performance video card ever???

[chriss02]

Re: GeForce 6800 GT -- best price\performance video card eve

yeah , 6800GT great card.
my last card one radeon 9600-non-pro,3d mark2004 points:cc.4000 point,
this card 9874 point (Barton 2500+,512DDR 400).
my last test is the 3d mark 2005-4200 point-this is correct.

[supaz]

Re: GeForce 6800 GT -- best price\performance video card eve

I'm having a problem in choosing a vid card...

is the Nvidia 5200's ok? i'm not into gaming (as of yet), but i'd like
to have the option to....

[timriley12]

Re: GeForce 6800 GT -- best price\performance video card eve

The best price/performance for officially announced cards IMHO are the NVidia 6600/GT cards (some are now available) and the ATI X700 cards that were officialy released last week but probably won't make it into stores in a couple of weeks. I can't wait to get my hands on one of those.

[northenstar]

Re: GeForce 6800 GT -- best price\performance video card eve

Due too my PC's crappy power supply, I went with the 9800 Pro, which for 125 quid was excellent value for money. Roll on my new PC though, can't wait to play EQ 2 with a high end card.

[evangelion]

My friend said he got one but I was thinking it was one of the lower end versions based on the NV40 core. Well, we got togther to LAN last weekend and my friend's running Far Cry at 1280x1024 with everything maxed and hitting like 60-65 FPS. I looked up so more info on them and was surprised by what I found. Basically this card is identical to the 6800 Ultra except for the clock speeds. The core clock is 350MHz instead of 400 and the memory runs at 1000MHz and opposed to 1100. It has 16 pixel pipelines, a 256-bit memory bus and 256MB of GDDR3 memory.

The only other major difference, I think, are actually pluses. It has a smaller cooling unit, so it actually fits in one slot. Its takes 1 external power connection instead of 2. And the kicker...it costs $100 less than the Ultra version!!! Granted it is still $400, but every writeup or benchmark I have seen has it smoking the equally priced X800 Pro which only has 12 pipelines. Plus the X800 series doesn't support Pixel Shader 3.0. Of course DirectX 9.0c is still a couple months away from being even sparingly used, but I've seen hints that alot of game studios are going to include supports for it in new patches sooner, rather than later. And that some companies are extending their development cycles to add it into near-future games.

Throw in nVidia's 32-bit floating point units (instead of ATi's 24-bit) and you've a helluva lotta card stuffed into a fairly reasonable price. It has the complete feature set of its Ultra brother and kills the competition in its price range. I know $400 is alot to spend on a computer component but for what you get I think it is worth every penny.

Those of you who I have taked hardware with before are probably calling me a sellout cause I'm an ATi guy. Well, let's just say that this is one product that nVidia did completly right. Features, cooling, price, performance. I would have one right now if all three Best Buys in Jacksonville weren't sold out. What are the chances.