6800 Cheap

[fifty?ballz]

I got myself a 6800 to top up my frame rates on doom 3, it added around 30-40fps to my frame rates and I finished doom from hell to the very end on Ultra 16xAF 2QxAA it was smooth as you could imagine. Doesn't seem to matter that the card only has 128mb, I presume the textures are cached in my main memory, as the game has just under a 600MB footprint in RAM when running this setting.

The specific 6800 I went for was the Galaxy, price was right and it already has a huge Arctic-Cooling Glacier cooler bolted on to save me hassle and comes overclocked. (plus games MGP2 & Chaser - which I sold for ?20 saving even more money)

Since buying it they also do a Dual DVI Games Edition (with X2, Commandos3, MotoGP2) version with a standard cooler for ?176 (including vat).

I don't know whether it makes sense to say don't bother upgrading, it's not like previous generations where the performance increase was little or none bar a few added special fx, we're talking a giant leap in performance, personally in benchmarks I get well over 200% performance increase over my Radeon 9800 Pro. In future with better drivers and all that soft/hard modding business who knows what might be ahievable.

[Ciaran]

I've heard alot of Galaxy cards coming with bad ram. Most of them DOA

[fifty?ballz]

I've heard alot of Galaxy cards coming with bad ram. Most of them DOA

Yep, the first one I got was faulty, I just phoned up the shop faxed them
the fault report and my wishes abiding with my statutory rights and was
sent a working one in two days. Box was still beaten up badly as the picture
shows, guess some warehouseman somewhere doesn't like Galaxy boxes,
the one I have atm looks like someones sat on it with a chair leg.

[sithlordx]

I have the msi 6800GT and its amazingly fast kills Doom 3 all over the place and it only cost me ?270

Bargain

[csuzw]

I got the Galaxy 6800GT about a month ago and have had no probs (I also got a much nicer box ) - the games bundle with mine was rubbish though - Nascar 2004 which i uninstalled after about 5 minutes. I've also overclocked my card from 370/1000 to 400/1050 comfortably and I know there was room for improvement.

[wazy15]

heard on OCuk that the 6800 is advertised sub 150 in a mag, but due to rules they cant post the site. Anyone know where? My OCuk account doesn't let me PM


Waz

[replicant]

ive not seen a 6800 for 150 that is truely a fantastic price.

[Roost]

Where is the cheapest for a 6800GT now, cheapest i've found is here:

http://www.lowestonweb.com/products/displayinfomain.asp?e=C0550D04-7A94-4328-B7AF-288700BABA11

Also i've seen a Asus 6800 GE, doesn't mention that it's a GT but the specs seem to match the GT's just not reall sure if it is one or not!

[Roost]

http://www.dabs.com/uk/productview?quicklinx=3BH3

Very ooooo.....

Well, worth the purchase. Infact, FYI this is the Inno3d 6800GT, so don't be put off thinking this is an unknown brand. I was surprised to find it came in a retail box because I expected at this price it would come as OEM! Contains full version of the game Commandos 3 plus various other free demos. Also, Overclocks very well to Ultra speeds. Both the core and memory stable at 410MHz and 1110MHz respectively (stock = 350MHz and 100MHz). Ultra for ?250, Awesome VFM!

[NeilMcRae]

I have a Galaxy Glacier 6800GT that I'm floging for ?200 quid. I bought it because it has a quiet fan, thinking it was single width but its not and it won't fit in my case. Its boxed brand new and installed once to test it.

Neil.