Is leadtek a good company for geforce 6800 cards?

[Sanius]

need to know. thinking about sending my xfx 6800 back to get one from leadtek, since it's only $5 more.

 

[JBT]

yes Leadtek is very good. Arguably the best 2D for Nvidia cards.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Sanius
need to know. thinking about sending my xfx 6800 back to get one from leadtek, since it's only $5 more.

Yes. I got mine yesterday, it overclocked extremely well, and I'm very happy with it.

 

[imported_Dakota]

Can anyone tell me how the 2D quality is? I don't mean to start a heated discussion, but I have been an ATI user for many years. Every time I look at an NVIDIA cards, I see the 2D quality is inferior. I know NVIDIA is built for gaming, but 2D quality is important to me also. I have heard that the Leadtek cards have the best 2D quality? Is this true? All observations will be helpful.

Thanks,

 

[impemonk]

XTKNIGHT SOMETHING IS A MISTAKE I THINK?

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Computer 1: ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, Intel P4C 2.6@3.38GHz, Corsair Value Select 512MB (256MBx2), ATI Radeon 9500 PRO 128MB, Antec 300W Power Supply, 2x40=80GB PATA RAID0, Western Digital 240GB combined PATA disk space

Computer 2: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, AMD Athlon 64 3500+, PQI Turbo 1GB (512MBx2) TCCD, Leadtek GeForce 6800NU 256MB, Antec NeoPower 480W, Maxtor 250GB 16MB Cache SATA150 NCQ hard disk

Display: Samsung SyncMaster 170t (12ms LCD@1280x1024)

uhhhhh, pardon my questioning but in your sig, xtknight, you mention your Leadtek 6800NU to be 256MB? What the? Since when did they release 256MB versions of the vanilla 6800...? Crazy. 😕

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: Dakota
Can anyone tell me how the 2D quality is? I don't mean to start a heated discussion, but I have been an ATI user for many years. Every time I look at an NVIDIA cards, I see the 2D quality is inferior. I know NVIDIA is built for gaming, but 2D quality is important to me also. I have heard that the Leadtek cards have the best 2D quality? Is this true? All observations will be helpful.

Thanks,

Now days there really is no discernable difference, unless your looking at the bottom of the bottom grade cards. Let me know how flashing it to 16pipe/6vu goes if you do that. I'm thinking i may get a 6800nu since 6800gt's are still rediculous in price when it comes to PCI-E.

 

[imverygifted]

I Love my leadtek 6800GT got 12500 3d mark 03

 

[Ryland]

I have the Leadtek 6800NU and it is extremely quiet and the stock cooling runs reasonably cool (55-58C idle). I wasn't able to open all of the pipes without artifacts so Im at 12,6.

 

[elny3680]

i just got the 6800gt & it makes the games all the better...

by the way, i am thinking of overclocking it to 400, i am not sure how to do that so could someone give me some pointers or point me in the right direction? someone mentioned that i should flash the bios with the ultra version from the leadtek site but even that i am not sure of how to do...also, how do i remove the heatsink so i can apply some arctic silver 5 on it? any help would be appreciated

ethan

 

[otispunkmeyer]

sublime id say, i have a 6800GT from them, and its all good, i just have a knack for wanting very heavy shiny copper heatsinks!!! so leadtek it was
my card idles at like 55 degrees when its at ultra speeds, the cooling is definately top rate

 

[fstime]

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim

Originally posted by: Dakota
Can anyone tell me how the 2D quality is? I don't mean to start a heated discussion, but I have been an ATI user for many years. Every time I look at an NVIDIA cards, I see the 2D quality is inferior. I know NVIDIA is built for gaming, but 2D quality is important to me also. I have heard that the Leadtek cards have the best 2D quality? Is this true? All observations will be helpful.

Thanks,

Now days there really is no discernable difference, unless your looking at the bottom of the bottom grade cards. Let me know how flashing it to 16pipe/6vu goes if you do that. I'm thinking i may get a 6800nu since 6800gt's are still rediculous in price when it comes to PCI-E.

You can't unlock the pci-e 6800.