for a bloody lil beauty I found from MSI!!!.
its all about bang for buck and when I picked up this msi 6800 128mb card for $500 australian, I bought it so I could mod it after reading many posts on successive pipe unlocking.A lot of info too told me not to do it as I would damage my card.
Well i grabbed riva tuna (latest) unlocked 4 extra pipes 12 > 16 hehe.
ran many a benchmark and boosted my score from 8850 to 10012 in 3d mark 2003 with absolutely no artifacts what so ever!! after benchmarking an hour straight my Temperature? well, it jumped 1 degree in total and thats after playing hl2, doom 3, Bloodrayne 2, Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines all on max 1600x1200 antial. =x2, aniso. =x8.
maybe its because this card comes with a giant copper fan adjustable to 4000 rpm!! pure meat.
well for a $500 buck card its hit 10 000 marks and pumps out pixel shader 3.0 and vs 3.0 mmm.. tasty..
my test rig is as follows.
p4 2.4c @ 3.07 with gigabyte 3d cooler 4000rpm.
gigabyte 8ik1100 rev. 3.0 (8i875p)
2 x 512mb CORSAIR XMS C2PRO PC3200 400MHZ WITH LED'S @422MHZ
Western Digital Enhanced Caviar 80gb hdd 7200rpm
4 x case fans
msi nx6800 128td
onboard spdif 5.1 optical out with kenwood 780w (6 x 130 wtts)
5.1 digital surround receiver
Super Flower 500 watt true power PSU
21 inch CRT Diamond View monitor
maybe it was my psu? lol.
its all about bang for buck and when I picked up this msi 6800 128mb card for $500 australian, I bought it so I could mod it after reading many posts on successive pipe unlocking.A lot of info too told me not to do it as I would damage my card.
Well i grabbed riva tuna (latest) unlocked 4 extra pipes 12 > 16 hehe.
ran many a benchmark and boosted my score from 8850 to 10012 in 3d mark 2003 with absolutely no artifacts what so ever!! after benchmarking an hour straight my Temperature? well, it jumped 1 degree in total and thats after playing hl2, doom 3, Bloodrayne 2, Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines all on max 1600x1200 antial. =x2, aniso. =x8.
maybe its because this card comes with a giant copper fan adjustable to 4000 rpm!! pure meat.
well for a $500 buck card its hit 10 000 marks and pumps out pixel shader 3.0 and vs 3.0 mmm.. tasty..
my test rig is as follows.
p4 2.4c @ 3.07 with gigabyte 3d cooler 4000rpm.
gigabyte 8ik1100 rev. 3.0 (8i875p)
2 x 512mb CORSAIR XMS C2PRO PC3200 400MHZ WITH LED'S @422MHZ
Western Digital Enhanced Caviar 80gb hdd 7200rpm
4 x case fans
msi nx6800 128td
onboard spdif 5.1 optical out with kenwood 780w (6 x 130 wtts)
5.1 digital surround receiver
Super Flower 500 watt true power PSU
21 inch CRT Diamond View monitor
maybe it was my psu? lol.