thinking of bying a new videocard .

[airguard]

this one:

Gainward GeForce 6800GT 256MB DDR3
AGP, "Ultra/2400 Golden Sample", Bulk

Anyone that have any experience with the 6800 cards ?

I got the powersupp. to manage cause its a 520w supply.


I am wondering if I might get rid of the stutter that I have now with my GF 5700 Videocard, getting a little tired of it.
Cant aim properly cause the game kinda hangs from time to time.

Its a little overkill with that card but I am going for a uppgrade anyway and want to try it.
but I would like to hear from anyone else that might have it here and how it works in AH2

Thanks

[MOIL]

To answer your question properly, yes that is a good video card.
How it's going to work with AH2 until they fix it, is a good question.
That card would normally run a game like AH at well over 100fps at any rez with no stutters or slow-up.

Hope this helps

[airguard]

Picked it up and installed it today, no more stutter (dont know the real word for it but the game hangs for like microsecs)

The game is as smooth as it was in AH1 for me now. I have noticed some small stutter but that is if i move my view and just in the beginning after I log on.

max settings on sliders.
I have antialiasing on 4x and anisotropic filtering to 8x
The fps is steady at about 60 to 72 all the time. (my lcd screen locks fps at 72)

Very satisfied with the card but it cost to much This must be my last godam uppgrade for atleast 1 to 2 years I hope.

[ChasR]

Airguard,
You don't say what CPU you've got.  Now that you've already purchased the card, it's almost moot.  However, if you've got less than the equivalent of a P4c 3.2, the processor will bottleneck that card.  It is a great card by the way.  Be sure you have good case ventilation as the 6800 series cards will dump a lot of heat into the case.  My guess is you need at least the equivalent of 1 120mm fan in the back for exhaust and another 120mm intake in the front.  It outperforms all but the 6800 Ultra and the x800 XT and will overclock to nearly 6800 Ultra frequencies.

[airguard]

I got :
prescott 3.0@3.4
1024 osc 3500 memory
2 80mm fans back (none in front)
and a aspire 520w powersupply

The card is hot its 50c at idle and 65 at full load, I checked around and it seems pretty normal. (I hope, personally I thinks its hooot)

[straffo]

Originally posted by airguard
Very satisfied with the card but it cost to much This must be my last godam uppgrade for atleast 1 to 2 years I hope.

hahem ... this is one the biggest lie you've ever said

[ChasR]

Guardy,
You've got enough processor but with a prescot (very hot) and a 6800 (hot) I think you need more airflow through the case.  If you can add fans, do it.  If not I'd consider dropping a few dollars and some time into a better ventilated case, preferably one with a left side mounted fan blowing in on the Vcard and the cpu in addition to rear exhaust fans(s) and front supply fan(s) (blowing on the hard drives)

[airguard]

Straffo youre absolutly correct hehe.

ChasR your right too, but the prescott is not that warm as people are afraid of its idle at 45c and at full load its 58c, when surfing or doing exel,word stuff its about 48c (full load is pretty hot but no big deal for the prescotts)
I was positivly suprised by the prescott because it was  so much negative articles about it, but personally It works very good (for me)

I think I need a fan in front and that will give me better airflow cause I have 2 at the backside.

Tested 3dmark03 and got 12200 today  thats is a improvment from my 4000 score with the gf5700 card.
Syntetic benchmarks dont count much, but gives a small clue about how thing works.
Beside the most important thing is that my puter now run AH2 smoothly.

ty for inputs.

[ChasR]

Guardy,
My concern wouldn't be that the prescot would fail or any thing like that.  It would be that with a 100+ watt processor and a 300+ watt vcard, the cumulative effect of the heat dumped into the case would raise temps enough to cause other components to fail.  Most likely to go first in a hot case are the hard drives.  Lots of mobo's can barely handle the prescot load, get them hot and they'll start failing.  High heat = early death.  One fan in front may just be enough in an airconditioned environment.  Changing out one of the rear fans for a high performance fan would help too.

[airguard]

Ups !!!
Thank you.
I did not think of that and your are perfectly right.
HD's dont take much heat before they start stumble.
Well a big tower with space for 120mm fans will prolly be my next move

[214thCavalier]

Damn me that 1 to 2 years flew past

[airguard]

HAHA cc Cavalier guess both you and straffo are right

Actually I did order vapochill cooling also :

http://www.asetek.com/

that should fix the heat