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http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1710286&enterthread=y
I give kudos to SunnyD for finding this. PNY's site and several vendors list this as a 16 pipe 6800NU. Anyone want to bite and see if it's true?
Further investigating revealed that PNY did not appear to be listing their 6800U part on their site any longer. It appears that they are dumping their stock of 6800U cores by throwing them onto 6800NU boards. If my hunch is right, these should have no problems hitting 400+mhz on the core easily. Your only downside is that you have 128MB of memory, running at 600mhz at that. Hopefully the memory can hit 800mhz when overclocking, so that will help reduce the hit you'll take running at high resolutions and/or AA/AF.
Still, for the price, this could just almost be better than the Sapphire GTO2.
*Edit*
pxc makes a valid point in the original thread that the cooler on this thing is weak. So, for those of you who do plunge for this and are hoping to hit 400mhz+ on the core, you're probably going to want to upgrade cooling solutions.
Also, since this is most likely an NV45 core on a 6800NU PCB, that means Purevideo will only be partially functional on this card. Has anyone purchased one yet, and is it actually 16 pipes?
I give kudos to SunnyD for finding this. PNY's site and several vendors list this as a 16 pipe 6800NU. Anyone want to bite and see if it's true?
Further investigating revealed that PNY did not appear to be listing their 6800U part on their site any longer. It appears that they are dumping their stock of 6800U cores by throwing them onto 6800NU boards. If my hunch is right, these should have no problems hitting 400+mhz on the core easily. Your only downside is that you have 128MB of memory, running at 600mhz at that. Hopefully the memory can hit 800mhz when overclocking, so that will help reduce the hit you'll take running at high resolutions and/or AA/AF.
Still, for the price, this could just almost be better than the Sapphire GTO2.
*Edit*
pxc makes a valid point in the original thread that the cooler on this thing is weak. So, for those of you who do plunge for this and are hoping to hit 400mhz+ on the core, you're probably going to want to upgrade cooling solutions.
Also, since this is most likely an NV45 core on a 6800NU PCB, that means Purevideo will only be partially functional on this card. Has anyone purchased one yet, and is it actually 16 pipes?
I've been trying to avoid spending more then $200 on a vid card since the ONLY game I play is WoW. Heck, for everything else, the x300 on my Dell 9100 is fine for the 2405.
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