6800gt (pci-e) odd behavor

[nforce4max]

I bought a 6800gt (evga) off ebay for kicks for $15 to use its back plate and mounting screws in a mod for another card. Well I popped it in to test it out and after loading gpu-z along with riva tuner noticed that the vram was running twice the default. Better still it ran wow with out issue and no driver crash with forceware 191.7 vista x64. So has any one else noticed a change in their defualt clocks on these older nvidia cards? PS tried to validate but didn't get a #.

 

[jay2tall]

Some apps show the actual speed of the memory and others show the DDR speed.... which would be twice the actual speed.

 

[nforce4max]

Some apps show the actual speed of the memory and others show the DDR speed.... which would be twice the actual speed.

Nope I am getting actual but any more = crash. Not bad for such an vintage card except the core won't go much above 400mhz. Bios dated 1.25.2005 Glade that I cleaned up the card before use.