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Nice review. Esp HW PS details.
6800GT is an excellent package for Nvidia this time 'round. Of course it should've been tested against its "16-pipe" analog, X800-XT ($399), which is to be released soon. This is now selling as an X800-Pro VIVO & easily modifiable - as mentioned by 1. Not to be confused with X800-XT PE.
The reason the clever Xbit people didn't mod the 6800GT is that by increasing VCore or VDM, the card's trigger level is reached earlier than at default V, so OC performance is actually lower...;) This restriction is PS related as the GT only has a single molex...
The results were also interesting esp given the comments re:ATI's "nasty" filtering options(less?), given FW 61.34 AF/tex filtering "quirks". I also wonder why a 6800GT performs well with only 8 color ROPs having blend ability vs 12/16 for the X800-Pro/XT...? Bandwidth limited so it doesn't matter? I guess that's why "16 pipe" ATI boards are faster.
P.S. Cat 4.7 also have numerous bizarre bugs due to compiler, but given you didn't really test PS2, I guess it doesn't matter...
4. You are too cynical...:)
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