heatpipe 6800 giga-byte

[heatpipe000]

I'm thinking about buying the Giga-byte Nvidia 6800 card with heatpipe, model number GV-N68128DH, at the URL below. How much slower is this card compared to the 6800 GT?

http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-N68128DH.htm

 

[Clob]

Not a whole lot. If you dont want to shell out the $$$ for the GT, then this is a great card. I have one of the BFG company and it runs great! If you can open the 4 pipes then performance will jump to even closer to the GT. All in all solid card!


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[heatpipe000]

Using the benchmarks from the Tom's article at the URL below, can you list as many of the benchmark results as possible for this card so we can see exactly how fast this card is?

Benchmarks
# 3D Mark 2005
# Unreal Tournament 2004
# Call Of Duty
# Doom 3
# Farcry
# Battlefield Vietnam
# Half-Life 2

http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041222/index.html

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

This card is much slower than the GT, uses slower rated memory than the GT and Vanilla GF6800 (also clocked differently than regular vanilla GF6800 IIRC) and even if you do open the extra pipes (a gamble at best) the passive nature of it's cooling will severly limit where you can take it from there. If you need passive cooling (quiet) and you don't mind having a GF6800 (since it's unlikely to be much more than that), then this is a good card from a solid maker. Otherwise forget the passive cooling and go with a regular GT or even a retail OC'ed GF6800 which are likely available for less money.


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[Lazerous]

I just bought the:
Giga-byte nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Video Card, 256MB GDDR3, 256-Bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "GV-N68T256DH"

from Newegg. I paid $399 for this just last weekend but i looked at it again to show a friend of mine and they raised the price this week to $459.50.

This one is not passive cooling however. it has a fan over the heatsink as well. i have heard that this one can be OC'd to achieve at least as good of performance as the ultra but i hear they run hot so i may just leave it as is.

AMD 64 3700+,ASUS K8N-E Deluxe-250gb,1.5 gb PC3200,Gigabyte GeForce 6800gt 256mb,Audigy 2 ZS , 2-36.7gb 10,000 rpm Raptors/Raid 0, Thermaltake butterfly 480 watt PSU , + asst. other amenities.....