eVGA 6800 not in stock at new egg

[MrMiyagi]

As stated in title. Are the others in stock as good...Leadtek, Albatron, Chaintech, MSI, etc?

I kinda need to order it tomorrow, and I want to get it from newegg.

Thanks

 

[Jayczar]

they should all be fine, I say get what you can get your hands on
these days as long as you are not getting gouged. I have yet to
see a particular brand of VGA card get banned on this forum, just
chipsets .

 

[Kobra]

I tested the eVGA 6800 and found it flawed. It has a serious bug with 4xAA in several games, you lose about 99% of your FPS when you activate it. I can confirm Rollos tests on this forum as well, same issue here when I purchased a 6800 just for testing.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=1365808&enterthread=y

16x12 4X8X 4.9FPS ..................35.7..........28.

Not sure if this is with other 6800's, or just the eVGA, but I can confirm I had this issue with the eVGA one I tested... Second issue with eVGA 6800 was Farcry simply didn't work with it. Artifacts and tearing all over, constant lockups, and it doesn't matter what driver, what settings in the game, it just didn't work.. I tested this, and confirmed it with 4 other people that owned the exact same card. I've talked with eVGA about it, and they are "Investigating" but told me they have had similiar reports about 4xAA issues and Farcry(the pack in game) not working... Thats all I got out of them..

Lastly, some card companies are only offering 1 year warranties on their 6800 series cards, and to me this is unacceptable, especially for a $300-500 product... So as a result, I would recommend BFG6800GT.. No troubles, overclocks like a champ, has a great looking heatsink and fans, and a full lifetime warranty... Can't beat that...

Edit: If I HAD to pick something other than BFG, i'd grab that MSI... Its got one hellava packin bundle, and a 3 year warranty.... Go with that, plus MSI makes solid boards...

 

[bjc112]

The PNY one isn't bad..

400/1100 easily..

Few of my buddies are running 415/1150 i believe.. No artifacts, heat not and issue..

 

[Kobra]

Odd, the PNY says at the bottom its a lifetime warranty.. Then on the side, the big sticker, it says "3 year warranty".... Whats up with that?

http://www.pny.com/products/verto/performance/6800.asp

Heres the order i'd buy them in:

1) BFG
2) MSI
3) PNY

 

[GeneralGrievous]

I wouldn't buy PNY unless you get it cheaper. BFG offers warranty and support. EVGA and other companies give you free games. PNY gives neither.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Kobra
I tested the eVGA 6800 and found it flawed. It has a serious bug with 4xAA in several games, you lose about 99% of your FPS when you activate it. I can confirm Rollos tests on this forum as well, same issue here when I purchased a 6800 just for testing.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=1365808&enterthread=y

16x12 4X8X 4.9FPS ..................35.7..........28.

Not sure if this is with other 6800's, or just the eVGA, but I can confirm I had this issue with the eVGA one I tested... Second issue with eVGA 6800 was Farcry simply didn't work with it. Artifacts and tearing all over, constant lockups, and it doesn't matter what driver, what settings in the game, it just didn't work.. I tested this, and confirmed it with 4 other people that owned the exact same card. I've talked with eVGA about it, and they are "Investigating" but told me they have had similiar reports about 4xAA issues and Farcry(the pack in game) not working... Thats all I got out of them..

Lastly, some card companies are only offering 1 year warranties on their 6800 series cards, and to me this is unacceptable, especially for a $300-500 product... So as a result, I would recommend BFG6800GT.. No troubles, overclocks like a champ, has a great looking heatsink and fans, and a full lifetime warranty... Can't beat that...

Edit: If I HAD to pick something other than BFG, i'd grab that MSI... Its got one hellava packin bundle, and a 3 year warranty.... Go with that, plus MSI makes solid boards...

Clarification
My 6800NU is a nVidia reference board, not eVGA. Also, I only had problems losing 99% of my fps with 4x on Doom3. In other games I lost half at 16X12 4X8X.
My card runs Far Cry pretty great.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: GeneralGrievous
I wouldn't buy PNY unless you get it cheaper. BFG offers warranty and support. EVGA and other companies give you free games. PNY gives neither.

Screw support...

Buy your card at Compusa and get the Carry in Replacement for like 30 bucs..

Over the counter swap, if the 6800 GT isn't in, you get store credit or bumped to the newest card.




BTW: PNY is kinda shifty with the "lifetime" warranty, it's actually the LIFETIME of the 6800GT in general, after it's not being made, thats the end..

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: Kobra
I tested the eVGA 6800 and found it flawed. It has a serious bug with 4xAA in several games, you lose about 99% of your FPS when you activate it. I can confirm Rollos tests on this forum as well, same issue here when I purchased a 6800 just for testing.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=1365808&enterthread=y

16x12 4X8X 4.9FPS ..................35.7..........28.

Not sure if this is with other 6800's, or just the eVGA, but I can confirm I had this issue with the eVGA one I tested... Second issue with eVGA 6800 was Farcry simply didn't work with it. Artifacts and tearing all over, constant lockups, and it doesn't matter what driver, what settings in the game, it just didn't work.. I tested this, and confirmed it with 4 other people that owned the exact same card. I've talked with eVGA about it, and they are "Investigating" but told me they have had similiar reports about 4xAA issues and Farcry(the pack in game) not working... Thats all I got out of them..

Lastly, some card companies are only offering 1 year warranties on their 6800 series cards, and to me this is unacceptable, especially for a $300-500 product... So as a result, I would recommend BFG6800GT.. No troubles, overclocks like a champ, has a great looking heatsink and fans, and a full lifetime warranty... Can't beat that...

Edit: If I HAD to pick something other than BFG, i'd grab that MSI... Its got one hellava packin bundle, and a 3 year warranty.... Go with that, plus MSI makes solid boards...

I'm not seeing any of those issues (haven't tried Doom3 yet however) I've been testing mine for the last few weeks extensively in a variety of games. If there's serious issues with the eVGA 6800 standard like you describe, I'm certainly not seeing it here.

 

[RacerX]

Do yourself a big favor and get that Chaintech card. Why??

- NewEgg used to carry the plain jane Chaintech 6800. This one is the AA6800 Turbo OC version

- This card comes factory clocked at 358/770 ... the highest of any 6800 cards.

-This card uses 2.2ns Hynix ram ... all other 6800's use 2.8ns ram (the gainward GS might have 2.5). 2.2ns has a rating of 900mhz (450x2) leaving this with all kinds of headroom above the 770 it's already at.

- It has a really nice cooler, better than most reference GTs. The core area is copper and all the memory is cooled as well. *Please note that the picture Newegg shows is wrong ... look at the Chaintech site for the right pic. The box and bundle NewEgg shows is however correct.*

- The card is non-reference in other ways too, it has a blue pcb, a blue led in the fan, and the backplane is gold. It also comes in the biggest retail box you will ever see a video card in ... literally the size of a briefcase!

FYI this is the card I am currently using (see rig specs in sig). The card easily goes much higher than the 358/700 it comes clocked at. My benchmarks w/ this card are pretty close to the two GT's I had prior to it.
59k in Aquamark, 5230 in 3dMark03 @ 1280 4xAA, 85/70/56fps @ 1024/1280/1600 high detail Doom3 demo1. All the other info above I can verify, however I bought mine from ZZF not the Egg.

Just a final note. I am not sure what the B1 (after the AA6800) refers too. The product link goes to the AA6800 page, and the specs NewEgg lists shows 358/770 and their pic of the box/bundle are also correct so this leads me to believe that this is going to be the same card I have.

 

[Epsil0n00]

Regarding the chaintech 6800 pics on Newegg...
WTF is the big green blob in the upper left hand corner of THIS picture!?
WTF IS IT!? OMG!!11ONE1q!!@

Eps.

 

[MrMiyagi]

Gha, people musta read your post and bought up the last of the Chaintechs...they were there this morning and now gone Will have to wait I guess.

Ya, I just saw the green blob thingy too. Pretty wierd...it's either left over packaging material for throwing at your roommate's head...or some sort of carpal tunnel exerciser thing.

 

[klaviernista]

- This card comes factory clocked at 358/770 ... the highest of any 6800 cards.

-This card uses 2.2ns Hynix ram ... all other 6800's use 2.8ns ram (the gainward GS might have 2.5). 2.2ns has a rating of 900mhz (450x2) leaving this with all kinds of headroom above the 770 it's already at.

might want to clarify that you are talking about a standard 6800, not a 6800 ultra. My albatron came straight from the factory with the core clacked at 410 MHz and 2ns memory

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: GeneralGrievous
I wouldn't buy PNY unless you get it cheaper. BFG offers warranty and support. EVGA and other companies give you free games. PNY gives neither.

Screw support...

Buy your card at Compusa and get the Carry in Replacement for like 30 bucs..

Over the counter swap, if the 6800 GT isn't in, you get store credit or bumped to the newest card.




BTW: PNY is kinda shifty with the "lifetime" warranty, it's actually the LIFETIME of the 6800GT in general, after it's not being made, thats the end..

PNY doesn't do their crappy lifetime warrenty anymore.

It is now a 3 year warrenty if you register on thier site.

 

[RacerX]

The big green blob is ... <drum roll> ... a monitor screen cleaner!

it's almost the size of a baseball and is soft/plush. It actually works pretty good

 

[MrMiyagi]

Your albatron standard 6800 came clocked at that with that 2ns mem?

 

[RacerX]

His Albatron is an Ultra. Yes, in clarification when I said all 6800's I meant regular 6800 vanilla cards, not the GT's and Ultras which come with 2.0ns/1.6ns DDR3 ram respectively.

Here's a few pics of the Chaintech AA6800 in my case:

pic1
pic2
pic3

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Kobra
I tested the eVGA 6800 and found it flawed. It has a serious bug with 4xAA in several games, you lose about 99% of your FPS when you activate it. I can confirm Rollos tests on this forum as well, same issue here when I purchased a 6800 just for testing.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&amp;threadid=1365808&amp;enterthread=y

16x12 4X8X 4.9FPS ..................35.7..........28.

Not sure if this is with other 6800's, or just the eVGA, but I can confirm I had this issue with the eVGA one I tested... Second issue with eVGA 6800 was Farcry simply didn't work with it. Artifacts and tearing all over, constant lockups, and it doesn't matter what driver, what settings in the game, it just didn't work.. I tested this, and confirmed it with 4 other people that owned the exact same card. I've talked with eVGA about it, and they are "Investigating" but told me they have had similiar reports about 4xAA issues and Farcry(the pack in game) not working... Thats all I got out of them..

Lastly, some card companies are only offering 1 year warranties on their 6800 series cards, and to me this is unacceptable, especially for a $300-500 product... So as a result, I would recommend BFG6800GT.. No troubles, overclocks like a champ, has a great looking heatsink and fans, and a full lifetime warranty... Can't beat that...

Edit: If I HAD to pick something other than BFG, i'd grab that MSI... Its got one hellava packin bundle, and a 3 year warranty.... Go with that, plus MSI makes solid boards...

Its not a "bug" with 4xAA the 6800 is a 128MB card, enabling 4xAA often takes you over 128MB in new games and causes texture swapping from memory, which makes the performance nosedive.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: JBT

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: GeneralGrievous
I wouldn't buy PNY unless you get it cheaper. BFG offers warranty and support. EVGA and other companies give you free games. PNY gives neither.

Screw support...

Buy your card at Compusa and get the Carry in Replacement for like 30 bucs..

Over the counter swap, if the 6800 GT isn't in, you get store credit or bumped to the newest card.




BTW: PNY is kinda shifty with the "lifetime" warranty, it's actually the LIFETIME of the 6800GT in general, after it's not being made, thats the end..

PNY doesn't do their crappy lifetime warrenty anymore.

It is now a 3 year warrenty if you register on thier site.

I didn't say it was lifetime, it's the life of the 6800GT on the market.

 

[MrMiyagi]

This card comes factory clocked at 358/770 ... the highest of any 6800 cards

RAMwise yes, but the MSI and XFX cards says its core is stock at 400 (w/ the mem at 700). I wonder what memory comes on the MSI?

 

[RacerX]

the MSI and XFX cards says its core is stock at 400

those are errors. read the first customer review on the XFX. He says his is 325/750
This review of the MSI says it's at 325 also. (but will O/C much higher )

That MSI looks nice with the copper cooler that has an adjustable fan speed, and also the first soft-modded 12-->16 pipe 6800 card was an MSI. The article also says it clocks to 400/900.

The Chaintech or MSI look to be your best bets unless you want dual-DVI then go with the XFX. The MSI is in stock now, maybe you ought to go with that and hope N/egg gets it to you by Friday

 

[DoughKey]

I got rid of my eVGA for the XFX because I really wanted dual DVI and was unhappy with the analogue output of the eVGA. RacerX is right though, the XFX core isn't clocked at 400Mhz, it's 325/750 but I am able to run 350/800 with a GT cooler on the card. I'm getting some Koolance gear this week though and am rather interested to see how high I can push it then.

-D

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: JBT

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: GeneralGrievous
I wouldn't buy PNY unless you get it cheaper. BFG offers warranty and support. EVGA and other companies give you free games. PNY gives neither.

Screw support...

Buy your card at Compusa and get the Carry in Replacement for like 30 bucs..

Over the counter swap, if the 6800 GT isn't in, you get store credit or bumped to the newest card.




BTW: PNY is kinda shifty with the "lifetime" warranty, it's actually the LIFETIME of the 6800GT in general, after it's not being made, thats the end..

PNY doesn't do their crappy lifetime warrenty anymore.

It is now a 3 year warrenty if you register on their site.

I didn't say it was lifetime, it's the life of the 6800GT on the market.

uhmm okay.. Well its still not that anymore its a 3 year warrenty. Trust me I OWN a PNY and it says its a 3 year warrenty right on the box. Its 1 year if you buy the card and don't register it with PNY. If you Register on their website it adds 2 years 1 + 2 = 3. So it is a liek a said before which you choose to ignore for some reason it is NOT the life time of the 6800GT series anymore it is 3 years bar none.

 

[oneshot]

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evga 6800, gt , and ultra in stock now for nearly retail