Which 6800?

[bigben210TX]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814122207

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130236

which 6800 is better ive heard that leadtek has good card cooling but i see eVGA as a more well known brand what do u think? and dont say get a gt unless you can find one for around 225$

oh and heres my specs

• NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A – OEM
• Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200S0 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive 16mb cache
• MSI K8N Neo4/SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
• CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512mb) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory
• AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor
• ASPIRE ATX-AS520W BLACK ATX 520W Power Supply

[DeltaBoy]

Re: Which 6800?

Get the EVGA thats what i have and its awesome for BF2 i get almost all high settings with 2X AA

[toxik]

Re: Which 6800?

I doubt that the leadtek's cooling is that much better than evga's, they are both cheap. They both have the same clock speed, so they will run the game equally good. I'd say you should go with the evga because they have lifetime warranty.

[imported_bigpappa]

Re: Which 6800?

why not just spend a few more bucks and get this card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814122209

[neo265]

Re: Which 6800?

Dont even bother with the PCI-E version of the 6800, go for the 6600GT or 6800GT if you can afford. The PCI-E version clocks its ram at 600Mhz and it serverely kills performance. My old AGP 6800's ram was clocked at 750Mhz and was way faster.

Defo go for the 6600GT instead as you will find it either performs the same or out performs the PCI-E 6800.

[neo265]

Re: Which 6800?

Just checked on Toms Hardware and found the PCI-E 6800 is barely faster than the basic 6600.

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050524/index.html

[Scania]

Re: Which 6800?

I have a 6800GT, however, I also have friends with 6800LE's which are more than upto BF2.

I'd consider the lower spec 6800LE and budget for the cheapest stick of 1GB RAM you can find, matched, ideally to your existing RAM....

BF2 benefits far more from 2GB RAM than it does from a higher end 6800series.

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[Espion]

Re: Which 6800?

I have an eVGA 6800GT and I'm very happy with it.

[imported_bigpappa]

Re: Which 6800?

Just checked on Toms Hardware and found the PCI-E 6800 is barely faster than the basic 6600.

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...524/index.html

yeah the speeds are pretty darn close

6800GT 4987, 4099, 2413

6600GT 3681, 2662, did not run 1600x1200


pwned!!!

[Sir. abjam77]

Re: Which 6800?

I have a 6800GT, however, I also have friends with 6800LE's which are more than upto BF2.

I'd consider the lower spec 6800LE and budget for the cheapest stick of 1GB RAM you can find, matched, ideally to your existing RAM....

BF2 benefits far more from 2GB RAM than it does from a higher end 6800series.

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Acctually the 6800LEs aren't that much cheaper, and they are a LOT worse than the 6600GT. That is unless you get lucky and unlock it , but there are very low chances of that (lower than everyone on newegg says, trust me on this one).

2gigs is probally a good idea tho

[Scania]

Re: Which 6800?

Acctually the 6800LEs aren't that much cheaper, and they are a LOT worse than the 6600GT. That is unless you get lucky and unlock it , but there are very low chances of that (lower than everyone on newegg says, trust me on this one).

2gigs is probally a good idea tho

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...orce_6800.html - £83 6800LE

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...e_6800_GT.html - Cheapest 6800GT I can see is near £200!

£200 is more than enough for said 6800LE & 2GB RAM, sure, if funds permit, go for a 6800GT or better, if funds are tight, the LE & 2GB RAM would be my objective.

[Sir. abjam77]

Re: Which 6800?

all i was trying to say was that stock settings the 6600 GT is better than the 6800 LE. Everyone wants 2gigs!