Video Card Buying Guide

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: rbV5

$325-350

$339.00 - ASUS nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-Bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "V9999GT/TD/128" -RETAIL

You might point out that this particular card is not a 6800GT, 6800 GT cards have 256 MB GDDR3 memory, while this has 128 MB DDR memory. Its priced better than ASUS orginal gouge, but $344 shipped is still approaching regular 6800GT pricing (its $315 shipped at zzf for instance)

Interesting. Do you happen to know off the top of your head what the chip on this card actually is? I hope performance is identical to the 256 MB version because that's why I listed it there. I'm going to search some reviews on it. Edit: I can't find much info on it.

Is it not possible they simply slapped on half of the memory chips and changed a setting from 256MB to 128MB? Or, would that just not work?

 

[rbV5]

Interesting. Do you happen to know off the top of your head what the chip on this card actually is?

Its NV40 like all the 6800 AGP cards. It may have similar performance to a 256MB GDDR3 GT in some cases, but theres no way it will ever hit 1GHz on that memory and the 128MB framebuffer will suffer at higher resolutions an AA/AF levels....its no GT and never will be, but a little better than a regular 6800standard.