whats the deal with the 6800gs, are they made for a rival against the X800GTO2, and able to be modded into 6800ultra or or somthing? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/6800PCI_Series.html
Looks like a GTO rival, I don't know about the modding potential but this is actually the first 6 series card proposed in a while that seems worthwhile. It fills the gap in between the 6800 and 6800GT as the 6800 AGP has low clock speeds and 128MB's or DDR1, while the PCIe version has even worse clockspeeds.
omg on the nvidia site it says its some sort of rival for the X1600 Series, as The pro and XT of X1600 both have 128-bit and 6800GS has 256-bit, so it appears to be rivaling the X1600 series.
Well the X1600 series are very similar to the GTO's so it's essentually rivaling both at ATI has no plans to continue the GTO series with new revisions
the 6800gs is a 12-piped card that has a higher clock than the regular 6800. It's useless really. nVidia should be consentratiung on a mid-ranged 7-series card, one to compete withe the x1300 and one for the x1600.
i kno what the 6800gs is, but it is not useless, as ex said, it is like to bridge the gap between 6800 and 6800gt.
Well nVidia doesn't need anything to compete with the X1300 and X1600, the GS fills the X1600 slot and the 6600 is probably about the equivalant of a X1300 so they should just concentrate on a 7800 vanilla or 7600GT if they really want to though it would be kind of pointless.
whats with the X1300?, you can get versions with 512mb of memory, and they have really high clock speeds, and then, bammmm, 4 pipelines, whaa, it would be a high end card if it had more pipelines.
The 512Mb deal is suck a gimick, I've seen 6200's with 512MB's on Newegg, and a guys reviewed it and said it was twice as good as a GTX, guess the gimick really works for some people. Yeah 4 pipelines is so old school, I can't belive they even bother to make cards with that few. Shame.
lol, is there a link to this review, he must of been smoking dope to get that idea that a 512mb 6200 is twice as good as a gtx lol
Heh, yeah I looked on newegg but the card seems to be discontinued, either that or the guy grasped reality and deleted his review. Didn't know they made a 512version of the 6800GT, about the same price too
The 6800GS is made solely to replace ALL 6800 cards. nVidia is discontinuing production of all 6800 series cards and are now introducing the 6800GS. Apparently a renamed 6800 Ultra!
I wouldn't call it a replacement 6800Ultra, it's a 12 pipe card with lower clockspeeds. It's very good but I don't understand how they're calling it that.
Well it's not a replacement of any of the 6800 cards, they're just not producing any more 6800 cards except the GS and are now fully focusing on the 7000 Series
why cant they jus make a new name for these things X850XTPESE watever cant they jus call is a idk X860? or a 6800GS a 6900 wats with the long as hell names
I know, it would be much easier on a new customer, the higher the number the better, simple as that. Otherwise who's to know a 6600LE is worse than a 6600GT if you don't know specs.
alot of people would think the GT is better as if they have ever seen cars, they notice that some fast cars are GT. but i suppose someone could think LE stants for limited edition.
Good point, but probably one of the more confusing things that hit costomers a little while back was when ATi started using the XT suffix to denote really good cards and then nVidia used it to denote it's crappier, less capable models. e.g ATI's 9800XT and nVidia's 5900XT. A lot of people probably assumed that XT mean Xtream edition or XtraTrippy or something and got a worse card out of it (assuming they went nVidia). Pretty risky if you don't do the reasearch.
