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ASUS V9999 GT 6800GT...any good?

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Thenion

Junior Member
Hi,

does anyone have this card? There are tons of reviews of the Asus GE (Gamer Edition) card but nothing at all about the V9999 GT.

Did anyone try to overclock it?

Thanks.
 
No, the GE - Gamers Edition is the one with the good memory and 12 pipelines.

I read that the GT card from Asus only got 128 MB DDR1.

I just went to the store and they told me that their card got DDR3 and 256MB. They don't have it in stock yet though.

Maybe they are wrong...
 
To my knowledge, Asus makes three 6800 cards

A 6800nu with GT memory
A 6800GT with NU memory (I wonder if there was a manufactorering/memo mixup?)
A standard 6800 U with Ultra memory, single slot and dual slot configs though.
 
Some of you guys aren't getting it. This IS a 6800GT.

It is a little confusing, because Asus put out a "vanilla" 6800 with 256mb, called the 'gamers edition'. The card I'm talking about is listed - by Asus - as a 6800GT with only 128mb of ram. And it's listed on pricewatch for $345.

Check the link above. This is a 6800GT with half the memory. I'd love to see benches on this card.
 
Originally posted by: Rio Rebel
Some of you guys aren't getting it. This IS a 6800GT.

It is a little confusing, because Asus put out a "vanilla" 6800 with 256mb, called the 'gamers edition'. The card I'm talking about is listed - by Asus - as a 6800GT with only 128mb of ram. And it's listed on pricewatch for $345.

Check the link above. This is a 6800GT with half the memory. I'd love to see benches on this card.
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That particular card also has DDR1 memory at 700Mhz, same as the 6800NUs. It will outperform a 6800nu, but fall far short of a real GT, and likely fall behind Asus's own V9999GE(12pipe core w/1Ghz RAM) card.
 
In a nutshell: Asus made two weird cards. Both are placed somewhere between the "vanilla" 6800 and the 6800 GT. The only spectacular thing about them is their amazing capability of confusing customers.
 
ASUS V9999GT/TD Geforce 6800GT

16 Pipelines
350Mhz Core Clock
256bit memory bus
128Mb's 700Mhz DDR1 Memory

This is far short from the Real 6800GT that comes with 256Mb's of 1000Mhz DDR3
But at the end of the day the extra 4 pipelines make it a great leap over the Standard 6800 that also comes with 128Mb's 700Mhz memory but only 12 Pipelines.

It's a strange way for Asus to make the card cheaper but they probably had excess Samsung DDR1 700Mhz chips to get rid of....... they probably thought if they put a popular 6800GT core with unpopular DDR 700 they could rid of them. better. but with a 256bit memory bus DDR 700 on a 6800NU and 6800GT would smoke 1000Mhz DDR3 on 6600 and 6600GT 128bit bus.
 
I just got this card a few days ago here is aus and have to say
am really happy with it. i got it for $569au and its only 40-60 more
than the regular 6800 so its a hell of a good buy and itd be stupid to
buy a regular card over this. It performs better than a vanilla 6800 too.
but falls quite short of the 256mb GT but i expected this due to the 700mhz memory. in 1280x1024 high quality in doom3 on my amd3200+ 512ddr 400, gigabyte 7n400-l i get a bechmark of 64fps (66.70 drivers,oc'd to 365/724mhz), and my 3dmark03 is 10100 ish so its an awesome card for the money. im gonna upgrade my ram though as you really need the extra ram with this card as with doom3 it really starts to hitch/chunk in high quality in some areas of the levels.
still i did a little memory tweak and change image_cachemegs to 128 and that helped it alot. As for other games i havent benched them yet but theyre running
pretty damn smooth too, Thief deadly shadows rocks!
 
Originally posted by: Rio Rebel
Here's a link from Asus:

V9999 - An Asus branded 6800GT with 128mb memory

Pricewatch has this card for $345. I wonder how it compares to a "real" 6800GT (or, one with 256mb)?
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Unless you OC the memory, there will be a noticeable difference.
This card is basically the same as a softmodded NU. I have no idea why Asus put it out even. I would never buy one, and would actually rather have their overpriced V9999 GE than this thing.

 
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Rio Rebel
Here's a link from Asus:

V9999 - An Asus branded 6800GT with 128mb memory

Pricewatch has this card for $345. I wonder how it compares to a "real" 6800GT (or, one with 256mb)?
Click to expand...
Unless you OC the memory, there will be a noticeable difference.
This card is basically the same as a softmodded NU. I have no idea why Asus put it out even. I would never buy one, and would actually rather have their overpriced V9999 GE than this thing.
Click to expand...
i think its a great card, and why wouldn't you pay a few extra dollars for a softmodded NU? its risky
softmodding regular 6800s anyway because if you enable bad pipelines you ruin the card. i have it
oc'd to 383/766mhz now since the cooling on this card is great. The V9999 GE is a faster card but they
are around $200au more here, and for around that price you can get a real GT so why would you?
plus since it has a GT core it has all 6 vertex shaders where the regular 6800 only has 5, so its still
better than a softmodded NU, meaning better compatibility with future games. so basically what youre getting is a souped up 6800NU for a few extra dollars at most. you're only seeing the
glass half empty, im seeing it half full 🙂


p.s oh it comes with DeusEx invisible war too, great game
 
Originally posted by: inflames87
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Rio Rebel
Here's a link from Asus:

V9999 - An Asus branded 6800GT with 128mb memory

Pricewatch has this card for $345. I wonder how it compares to a "real" 6800GT (or, one with 256mb)?
Click to expand...
Unless you OC the memory, there will be a noticeable difference.
This card is basically the same as a softmodded NU. I have no idea why Asus put it out even. I would never buy one, and would actually rather have their overpriced V9999 GE than this thing.
Click to expand...
i think its a great card, and why wouldn't you pay a few extra dollars for a softmodded NU? its risky
softmodding regular 6800s anyway because if you enable bad pipelines you ruin the card. i have it
oc'd to 383/766mhz now since the cooling on this card is great. The V9999 GE is a faster card but they
are around $250au more here, and for around that price you can get a real GT so why would you?
plus since it has a GT core it has all 6 vertex shaders where the regular 6800 only has 5, so its still
better than a softmodded NU, meaning better compatibility with future games. so basically what youre getting is a souped up 6800NU for a few extra dollars at most. you're only seeing the
glass half empty, im seeing it half full 🙂


p.s oh it comes with DeusEx invisible war too, great game
Click to expand...

You are wrong about a few things:
1. It's not a "few" extra dollars. You can get a Leadtek 6800NU from Buyxtremegear (where I got my GT) for $266. now, and I've heard about a $250 deal at Outpost lately? The cheapest this card can be had on Pricewatch is $345..
That is only $32 less than the lowest price for a normal GT, and 5 other vendors have GTs for less than $40 more.
IMO, you would have to be retarded to pay less than $40 less for this "great card" and get 128MB less of RAM that is running 300MHz slower.
2. 6800NUs have 6 vertex processors. Apparently you don't own one. I do. I've enabled all 16 pipelines, and all 6 vertex processors, as have more than half the people who've tried.
Could you please provide a link to the info that the softmodding is irreversable if it fails?

This glass isn't "half full" this glass is a money maker for Asus.

 
ok i got my maximum pc the other day here what they had to say
"Don't let the packaging fool, you the Asus V9999 Gamer edition is not the geforce 6800gt or Ultra it purports to be; instead it's and overpriced standard Geforce 6800"
i show a few benchmarks and for those of you who dont get maximum pc you should really get it

BENCHMARKS ASUS V9999 GAMER EDITION XFX GERFORCE 6800GT
3d mark 03 overall score 9,756 10,998
far cry 1.1 59.1fps 61.5fps
doom 3 demo 1 66.4fps 74.1fps


the asus clearly is beaten by the REAL 6800gt
 
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: inflames87
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Rio Rebel
Here's a link from Asus:

V9999 - An Asus branded 6800GT with 128mb memory

Pricewatch has this card for $345. I wonder how it compares to a "real" 6800GT (or, one with 256mb)?
Click to expand...
Unless you OC the memory, there will be a noticeable difference.
This card is basically the same as a softmodded NU. I have no idea why Asus put it out even. I would never buy one, and would actually rather have their overpriced V9999 GE than this thing.
Click to expand...
i think its a great card, and why wouldn't you pay a few extra dollars for a softmodded NU? its risky
softmodding regular 6800s anyway because if you enable bad pipelines you ruin the card. i have it
oc'd to 383/766mhz now since the cooling on this card is great. The V9999 GE is a faster card but they
are around $250au more here, and for around that price you can get a real GT so why would you?
plus since it has a GT core it has all 6 vertex shaders where the regular 6800 only has 5, so its still
better than a softmodded NU, meaning better compatibility with future games. so basically what youre getting is a souped up 6800NU for a few extra dollars at most. you're only seeing the
glass half empty, im seeing it half full 🙂


p.s oh it comes with DeusEx invisible war too, great game
Click to expand...

You are wrong about a few things:
1. It's not a "few" extra dollars. You can get a Leadtek 6800NU from Buyxtremegear (where I got my GT) for $266. now, and I've heard about a $250 deal at Outpost lately? The cheapest this card can be had on Pricewatch is $345..
That is only $32 less than the lowest price for a normal GT, and 5 other vendors have GTs for less than $40 more.
IMO, you would have to be retarded to pay less than $40 less for this "great card" and get 128MB less of RAM that is running 300MHz slower.
2. 6800NUs have 6 vertex processors. Apparently you don't own one. I do. I've enabled all 16 pipelines, and all 6 vertex processors, as have more than half the people who've tried.
Could you please provide a link to the info that the softmodding is irreversable if it fails?

This glass isn't "half full" this glass is a money maker for Asus.
Click to expand...

well, yeah if youre buying in the u.s the card isnt as good a deal. 256mb GTs are consideraly more
expensive here (Australia), with the 128mb GT only a bit more than a vanilla 6800. i cant buy from the U.S because i dont have a credit card, plus all the sites on pricewatch i checked don't offer international shipping or accept international credit cards/other payment methods. if you check www.gamedude.com.au they offer some of the best prices over here, youd agree that this is a good buy if youre buying here. As for the softmodding well aparently i was wrong, because rivatuner can be uninstalled and i was thinking of softmodding via flashing the BIOS, as when you reflash the bios back to 6800NU it just enables any 12 pipelines, so some bad ones can be used as the original 12. but its still a gamble to buy a card on the basis that you "might" be able to mod it to something else, as they call it a 6800NU for a reason, heres an instance where one didnt quite work out - http://www.digit-life.com/news.html?108919 using rivatuner, so consider yourself lucky if yours modded successfully.


P.S here is more on the vertex shader thing, aparently alot of 6800s have one disabled/bad vertex shader, but not all do http://www.bjorn3d.com/theforu...vertex_processors.html
 
Originally posted by: Schneider879
ok i got my maximum pc the other day here what they had to say
"Don't let the packaging fool, you the Asus V9999 Gamer edition is not the geforce 6800gt or Ultra it purports to be; instead it's and overpriced standard Geforce 6800"
i show a few benchmarks and for those of you who dont get maximum pc you should really get it

BENCHMARKS ASUS V9999 GAMER EDITION XFX GERFORCE 6800GT
3d mark 03 overall score 9,756 10,998
far cry 1.1 59.1fps 61.5fps
doom 3 demo 1 66.4fps 74.1fps


the asus clearly is beaten by the REAL 6800gt
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Not in those benchmarks by much, but that is the Gamer Edition with 1GB 1GHZGDDR3 and a 350MHz core. (i.e. it's a much better card than the Asus 6800GT and costs more too)

I didn't take the "non US" factor into account inflames.
 
I have a XFX Geforce 6800gt, and the reason why i choose any other brand beside of the asus model is because the asus model use two power supply connector.That affraid me a little.
 
hey ive oc'd this card to 415/800mhz now and no artifacts or problems at all for those that
are interested, which gives me a cool score of 11098 in 3dmark03. Im assuming itll go alot
higher to, (memory in particular) because the core only heats up to 54c and memory is 51c,,,
not too hot for a 6800 or so ive read. dont think ill go further though, pretty happy with how it
is now and i dont want anything to go wrong with my card. im running an amd3200+xp@2273,
512ddr400 dual channel
 
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