nVidia 6800LE

[fibes]

I can't seem to find any reviews on these cards. I know the cards are limited and not too many manufacturers produce such a card, but I can't find anything. Does anyone own this card or know where I can get some reviews about it?

Thanks!

 

[gobucks]

its a piece of crap. It's way too underpiped/underclocked to compete with other midrange cards. I haven't seen many reviews of it (likely because no one is buying/selling them), but I did see one, and it was basically as fast as a 5900XT. It gets blown away by the 6600GT, since the 6600GT has just as many pipes and a 200MHz clockspeed advantage. I think it might have a slight memory bandwidth advantage (256-bit) but that doesn't really get a chance to shine since the card's GPU is way too slow to play in eye candy modes. Overall, I'd avoid this card like the plague and look at a 6600GT instead (or an X800 if you can find it at its $200 MSRP)

 

[fstime]

If you can find the EVGA LE, which I doubt you can, it uses an ULTRA core and memory and PCB, can be flashed to an ultra no prob. The rest of the LEs suck.

 

[impemonk]

Originally posted by: gobucks
its a piece of crap. It's way too underpiped/underclocked to compete with other midrange cards. I haven't seen many reviews of it (likely because no one is buying/selling them), but I did see one, and it was basically as fast as a 5900XT. It gets blown away by the 6600GT, since the 6600GT has just as many pipes and a 200MHz clockspeed advantage. I think it might have a slight memory bandwidth advantage (256-bit) but that doesn't really get a chance to shine since the card's GPU is way too slow to play in eye candy modes. Overall, I'd avoid this card like the plague and look at a 6600GT instead (or an X800 if you can find it at its $200 MSRP)

Uhhhh... the 6600GT has 8 pipelines as well... Don't know where you came to the conclusion that it has MORE...

 

[Killrose]

Originally posted by: BouZouki
If you can find the EVGA LE, which I doubt you can, it uses an ULTRA core and memory and PCB, can be flashed to an ultra no prob. The rest of the LEs suck.

Actually, it's eVGA "Limited Edition" no where's on the box or card does it say "LE" 🙂, and i'm sure it's part of the reason you will never see them again because of the confusion. I have one, awesome card and a killer deal on getting a 6800Ultra for $325 🙂

I think for the difference i've seen the 6800 non-GT/Ultra vers the 6800LE price wise there was not much difference. Get the 6800, stay away from the LE

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: impemonk

Originally posted by: gobucks
its a piece of crap. It's way too underpiped/underclocked to compete with other midrange cards. I haven't seen many reviews of it (likely because no one is buying/selling them), but I did see one, and it was basically as fast as a 5900XT. It gets blown away by the 6600GT, since the 6600GT has just as many pipes and a 200MHz clockspeed advantage. I think it might have a slight memory bandwidth advantage (256-bit) but that doesn't really get a chance to shine since the card's GPU is way too slow to play in eye candy modes. Overall, I'd avoid this card like the plague and look at a 6600GT instead (or an X800 if you can find it at its $200 MSRP)

Uhhhh... the 6600GT has 8 pipelines as well... Don't know where you came to the conclusion that it has MORE...

😕
Didn't he say it has just as many pipelines? That's how I read it.

 

[fibes]

Originally posted by: Killrose

Originally posted by: BouZouki
If you can find the EVGA LE, which I doubt you can, it uses an ULTRA core and memory and PCB, can be flashed to an ultra no prob. The rest of the LEs suck.

Actually, it's eVGA "Limited Edition" no where's on the box or card does it say "LE" 🙂, and i'm sure it's part of the reason you will never see them again because of the confusion. I have one, awesome card and a killer deal on getting a 6800Ultra for $325 🙂

I think for the difference i've seen the 6800 non-GT/Ultra vers the 6800LE price wise there was not much difference. Get the 6800, stay away from the LE

So, the one listedhere, is not the "limited edition" that you can flash to Ultra speeds?

 

[Waylay00]

At BFCON '05, they were using a 6800LE to play BF2, which a pretty graphics intense game, and it ran fine. But you could do better.

 

[Killrose]

Originally posted by: fibes
So, the one listedhere, is not the "limited edition" that you can flash to Ultra speeds?

It is not. The eVGA Limited Edition that created quite a buzz for awhile had the dual pwr connector requirement, Ultra HS/fan unit, 256mb DDR3 1.6ns mem and even had the Ultra core. People who removed thier HS/fans said there were the words Ultra on the core.

It came clocked 325core / 1100mem, or the good ones that came from Newegg did.