Gainward Geforce 6800 GT Golden Sample Video Card

**Jason** · Last edited by Jason on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:33:13; edited 2 times in total

Every game I have ran great at 1600x1200 resolution. With the exception of Far Cry and Doom 3, I was able to run at least 4x Anti Aliasing and 8x Antostropic Filtering and maintain a 30fps minimum... I was able to overclock the card from its Golden Sample defaults of 350/1000 to 425/1150 for every day use, its completely stable, no artifacts, not even on the turtles back in 3Dmark03 Nature. - The Review

**Jason** · Posted: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:37:37 Post Subject:

Nookie bought himself a sweet video card and offered to write up a little something on it... Nice, thanks man! Sun

Nookie420 · Posted: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:33:04 Post Subject:

yal be welcome. :-D

Danny · Rated PG Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 4

Nice review!

The card seems nice though a little over my budget Laughing

charliek · Rated PG Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

Nice rerview, and a lovely card.

I bought one, I was a little dissapointed to find myself in the garage hacksawing the corner of the fan mounting so that I could plug it into my ASUS K8V SE Deluxe because it got in the way of the SATA plugs. (It wouldn't have mattered if I wasn't using them)

Like you, I also got better cooling by re-doing the heatsink with Arctic Silver V. I also removed the spacers on the moffset heatsink to get a better fit - it was hardly touching.

With a card of this price I'd have liked to see the a little more care in its build.

I also find the fans a little noisy, as I'm becoming obsessed with fast *and quiet* Smile

However - I didn't buy it for the stuff that's stuck to it, I bought it for the card that was tested at a respectable oveclock. I'm looking forward to Zalman adding the 6800 mounting kit to their Reserator VGA block, so I can add it to my watercooling loop (at which time, I'll replace those ram sinks with their fat pads for the Zalmann ones). Then I'll look for a thoroughly dis-respectful overclock Wink

Charlie

rquilley · Rated PG Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 1

Hey thanks for the great reviews... The information on the thermal paste problem was a great asset to me. I recently purchased this card 2400GT GS.... to replace a 5600GT from Gainward. Once installed the 2400GT seemed to be running hot, idle was about 61 degrees. I recalled this review and I dismantled the card and found that only about 2/3 of the GPU was coverd with thermal paste. I fixed that and the card runs at 50 degrees now..... Thanks again....

By the way I love the card and only had a small problem mounting it.... I use a Gigabyte GA8-IPE1000 Pro2... the video card does interfere with one of the SATA conectors. A small piece of the shroud on the card had to be removed to allow the conector to be inserted.

RUPMAN · Rated PG Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 1

Hi..
I also have a Gainward 6800GT GSl. I had a problem with heat as well and removed the copper heat sink and put some Arctic Silver on it. Load temps are now @ 65 degrees C. I had a problem overclocking the card at first - it would not run @ 400 /1100 without artifacts. Loaded a modded PNY Bios with GPU @ 1.4v for 3D and 1.1v for 2D. It runs fine at 420/1170.