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Leadtek WinFast PX6800 GT TDH Graphics Card: Overclocker's Dream

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 07/26/2005 | 04:14 PM ]

Today we are proud to offer you a detailed review of a great video card, a true overclocker’s best choice, the winner of our prestigious Editor’s Choice award, extremely fast and reliable, quiet and highly overclockable GeForce 6800 GT based solution from Leadtek. Read our review for more exciting details!

Table of contents:

• Package and Accessories
  
• PCB Design
  
• Noise, Overclocking, 2D Quality
  
• Testbed and Methods
  
• Performance in First Person 3D Shooters
  
• Doom 3
  
• Unreal Tournament 2004
  
• The Chronicles of Riddick
  
• Far Cry
  
• Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell
  
• Half-Life 2
  
• F.E.A.R. Multiplayer Demo
  
• Performance in Third Person 3D Shooters
  
• Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
  
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
  
• Performance in Simulators
  
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Aces in the Sky
  
• Lock On: Modern Air Combat
  
• Colin McRae Rally 2005
  
• Performance in Strategies
  
• Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War
  
• Perimeter
  
• Performance in Semi-Synthetic Benchmarks
  
• Final Fantasy XI Official Benchmark 3
  
• Aquamark3
  
• Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks
  
• Futuremark 3DMark03
  
• Futuremark 3DMark05
  
• Conclusion
  

Products from Leadtek frequently visit our test labs and always show good if not best overclockability, largely because of their inventive cooling systems. The Leadtek WinFast A400 Ultra TDH was even originally overclocked to 425/1100MHz (instead of 400/1100MHz), but the frequencies were brought down to the default in the next versions of the device’s BIOS (for details, please, see our article called Leadtek WinFast A400 Ultra TDH Graphics Card Review ).

The PCI Express version of the GeForce 6800 Ultra is still rather scarce in shops. The ATI RADEON X850 XT is much easier to find, but now that the GeForce 7800 GTX has been released, these graphics cards have lost much of their appeal.

The GeForce 6800 GT, on the contrary, is a widespread device, and some samples of this card can work at the frequencies of the GeForce 6800 Ultra, thus making a good graphics card for a PC enthusiast who’s into NVIDIA’s solutions. Heat dissipation of the NV4x core quite naturally grows up at overclocking, so the overclocked card must be equipped with an efficient cooling system, capable of handling the increased thermal load. The standard single-slot cooler many GeForce 6800 GT come with isn’t the best choice in this case.

Of course, you can purchase a good cooler separately, but it means spending more money. So, if you do buy a GeForce 6800 GT with overclocking in mind, consider models originally equipped with high-performance coolers. One such card is going to be reviewed in this article.

It is Leadtek’s WinFast PX6800 GT TDH.