LeadTek 6800 and eVGA 6800 Ultra Extreme: New GeForce on the Block

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• Drayvn - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  Actually i just found it for $530 over here in the UK

• Drayvn - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  In England the price of the XT-PE is about $565 and u could probably find it lower, at around $550 to $540...

• Noli - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  Guys if you don't like the value information 'overkill', er... just don't hover your mouse over the graphs?
  Actually my beef is slightly different which is why do anandtech log the fps/$ ?? There may be a good reason but am not sure what it is...

• Marsumane - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  Something that I dont think is quite right is that they are doing these benchmarks to determine the value of a card. If you use SM2.0 for the 6800 series and the X800 series you will not be seeing the entire value of purchasing a 6800 based graphics card. SM3.0 IS A FACTOR IN VALUE!

• DarkKnight - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  I completely agree with #18, just too much value information for me. In the end of an article just give a graph of the overall value, something like they do at THG.

• DarkKnight - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

• ZobarStyl - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  I love my LeadTek 4200, and the 6800nu is right up my alley...not like I need 256 for anything I do anyway. Great article, now I'm sure that once the gouging stops if I can find one for 250 it's mine. And ATi fanboys please stop posting their prices like they are wrong, everyone is overcharging right now...and the XTPE does not equal the XT #17...if the PE costs the same as the XT, who the hell will buy the XT when the PE is clocked higher stock and performs better?
  
  Hell at my local Best Buy the Pro (yes, the Pro) is proudly sold for 499.99; so much for the MSRP...

• rjm55 - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  #18 - I infer that you meant "I am not implying . . ." in your comment.
  
  Derek - The "value" thing is a good idea, but using it in every graph is really more information than any of us need - which makes it more confusing than it needs to be. Not many are interested in comparing bucks per frame in Eve at 1600x1200 to bucks per frame in Halo, for example. What's in the article about value is geeky overkill, when what I want to know is true overall value, or bang for the buck.
  
  Maybe you can settle on a bench ot two to best illustrate value instead of making it so complicated you have to run a computer analysis to figure it out.

• binger - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  nice article, but too bad you didn't touch the issues of heat and noise. for me, those factors are far more decisive than, say, a 10$ price premium or a performance difference of a couple of fps.
  

• deathwalker - Friday, July 9, 2004 - link

  An after thought to my original post on this review...there seems to be a great deal of emphasis put on 1600 X 1200 performance in these reviews..I know there are still a great number of gamers out there still using CRT moniotors..but..with the growing popularity of LCD monitors this 1600 X 1200 performance range is unobtainable for most LCD owners as most 17" and 19" LCD monitors operate with 1280 X 1024 as the optimal native setting. I am not infering though that 1600 X 1200 is not revelant in this testing process...it's just an observation.