Simviation Forum - UK Video Card buyers CHECK THIS!

Aug 31^st, 2004 at 4:50am

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This is the ad.......

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=67864&item=5119856988&r...

These are the specs.....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=67864&item=5119856988&r...

This is their feedback report!!!!!!!!

http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=custom-tek&iid=5...

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Reply #1 - Aug 31^st, 2004 at 10:22am

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Congo,

I am surprised at the feedback rating....... from the add I would have said "too good to be true". Which ..... usually is. Wink

If this is "up and up" ................that is beyond a fantastic deal. 3 hours to go and still cheap. Maybe at the last minute it'll get bid up a lot.

Thanks for posting this.

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Reply #2 - Aug 31^st, 2004 at 1:28pm

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Its up to £235 now with half hour to go. Card costs about £300 new so a good saving still!

I payed about £250 for my Ultra (What a bargain!) hehehe. Shame it isn't a 6800GT though, that card has more pipes and overclocks good.

Have seen mods done to 800pros though. You can unlock all 16pipes (Bit fiddley but works on some cards) then clock it, the results are quite good too.

AMD64 3500+ @ 2200MHz 400FSB&&MSI K8N Neo 2 mobo nForce3 chipset&&1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 timings @ 10.2.2.2 &&XFX 6800 Ultra @ 450/1200&&80gig HDD&&Loadsa fans!!!

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Reply #3 - Aug 31^st, 2004 at 3:37pm

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Its probably fine, emphasis on probably !

to me, a better buy by a country mile (at least, from a reputation, guarantee'd vendor & warranty point of view would be this....

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_This_Week_Only_25.html

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This Week Only

Leadtek WinFast A400TDH GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail with "OcUK Exclusive Call of Duty & Farcry Games Bundle

£305.44 - which is exactly what I paid for an "OEM" version of the same card 5 weeks back, when building a system for a friend.

And in 2 months time, it'll be a shedload cheaper!!!! Wink

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Reply #4 - Aug 31^st, 2004 at 8:55pm

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That's not too bad even for here. That's about $600 but they have been selling for close to $700. I'm still patiently waiting for the Geforce 6600 though. Only one more month. Wink

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

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Reply #5 - Sep 1^st, 2004 at 4:25pm

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If anybodys interested, this is the futuremark 3D Mark 03 results for the machine I'd built using the Leadtek 6800 GT.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=2868335 8) - Pity its not mine! Roll Eyes

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Reply #6 - Sep 2^nd, 2004 at 1:24am

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Was that with the card clocked to Ultra speeds outta interest?

I have managed to get 13122 on 3dMark03 on my 6800Ultra so far Grin

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Reply #7 - Sep 2^nd, 2004 at 2:04pm

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Was that with the card clocked to Ultra speeds outta interest?

I have managed to get 13122 on 3dMark03 on my 6800Ultra so far Grin

The Processor was overclocked (220 fsb instead of 200) but the cards standard!

Its clocked 13640 with "coolbits" but I found Far Cry was'nt happy, the machine seems to respond better to RAM and CPU tweaks the card will benchmark higher I'm sure, but I think it possibly needs later drivers, apparently, 6800GT's are much happier to overclock with the new 65.73 series forceware drivers its difficult to be sure, the pc has gone to its owner and he's happy with the way it is as the URL above shows.

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Reply #8 - Sep 2^nd, 2004 at 3:59pm

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New forceware drivers? OOOOOH hold on BRB Grin

I'm just gonna whack the card up to 450/1200 and see what happens! Muahahahah

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Cant get my HTT higher than 205 with this ram I got. Good news is standard my CPU is 2210. I used the memory dividers (made the system run crap) but I was able to clock my CPU up to 2530! and it ran stable Grin

Need someone to buy my old bundle of bits to fund new ram Grin

more speeeeeed gimme gimme Grin

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Reply #9 - Sep 2^nd, 2004 at 4:19pm

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There's also a new beta Forceware, 66.00. It gave me a 200 point boost in 3dMark01 but FS2004 studdered like mad with them. I'm going to downgrade to the 65s. I think the 66s are ment for the Geforce 6600 and 6800s.

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Reply #10 - Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 1:37am

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OK are you guys getting these off ow www.guru3d.com?

If so gimme a run down of which ones are working well and which aren't. I dont wanna be installing/uninstalling drivers to much as I hate dirtying up my system. Whats the best out at the moment you reckon?

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