OMGHOTDEAL4U! BFG GeForce 6800 GT 256MB - PREORDER $299 at BB!!!

[Spudd]

Originally posted by: Thrilla
I'm still debating .. either waiting and saving for a 6800GT or just plunking down $250 now for a 9800XT

I'm in the same boat. The 6800 regular is going for $289ish right now. Still rich for my blood, although it does run faster than a 5950 Ultra which is still uber-expensively priced.

 

[BlackMamba]

Go with the 9800 Pro over the XT, and save some extra money. In reality though, the 6800 and 6800GT are both good deals, but IMHO the 6800GT is worth the extra $$$ for the 16 pipes.

 

[Thrilla]

Exactly my though .. I want a card with 256megs, hence why I got rid of my 9800Pro-AIW

 

[nikko]

My GT shipped yesterday. Woo-hoo.

 

[igloo15]

Can you plz stop bumping this thread and let it just die away every time i come on this board i see it on the front page and start quickly clicking the link in an attempt to get the card till i realize its a month old. Just let the thread die already so we can get some deals that are current and not a month old.

 

[gibster]

i think you must have your fans flowing in the wrong directions or something, cuz my mobile 2600+ with thermalright sp97 and as5 is prime stable at 2.6ghz but the volts is too high for me so i drop it to 2.4ghz at 1.7v

at 1.7 it never gets higher than high 30s under full load and at 2.6 ghz it never goes above 42c under full load....your ambient room temperature is really high or you have bad directional flow in your case cuz when i had a certain fan as an intake instead of an exhaust, it raised temps by almost 5c

oh i have a vantec tornado on the sp97 btw, with a fan controller thank god.

Let's see. If your house is a cool 20C, you overclock your CPU, then it must output about 90W of power at the high end. Assuming a good 0.25 C/W, your CPU temp should be around 42.5C. This is assuming your case temp does not go up as the PC heats up, and that you use default voltage. If you start upping the voltage, the temp difference grows by another factor (Vn/Vo)^2, which will build your CPU temp fast. So, I suppose it is possible for you to keep it cool if you have everything lined up correctly, but I would not expect an average user to be able to do that. I went through about 6 XP chips, and was not overly impressed by the mobiles.

BTW, why step down to 2.4 if you claim 2.6 at 42C? I'd be all over that, unless the voltage is like 2.2V...

mmm.... do you possibly think that people will get different results? Don't tell people that do get to 2.5Ghz that they are nuts, its luck of the draw with overclocking and nothing is set in stone.
Mine runs fine at 2.5Ghz with an ALX-800 and Panaflo L1A.

Mmm. I would run at 2.5GHz too if I did not run Prime95 all the time, which was the only point of my post. During summer, those temps climb high inside my house, especially on the second floor, where my office is. Come back and say your story when you DO run the CPU at 100%, and if your temp is below 60C, I will congratulate you. BTW, my case temp reaches 41C in the summer, so the guy claiming to run at 30C would obviously not be able to do that in my house.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: gibster

i think you must have your fans flowing in the wrong directions or something, cuz my mobile 2600+ with thermalright sp97 and as5 is prime stable at 2.6ghz but the volts is too high for me so i drop it to 2.4ghz at 1.7v

at 1.7 it never gets higher than high 30s under full load and at 2.6 ghz it never goes above 42c under full load....your ambient room temperature is really high or you have bad directional flow in your case cuz when i had a certain fan as an intake instead of an exhaust, it raised temps by almost 5c

oh i have a vantec tornado on the sp97 btw, with a fan controller thank god.

Let's see. If your house is a cool 20C, you overclock your CPU, then it must output about 90W of power at the high end. Assuming a good 0.25 C/W, your CPU temp should be around 42.5C. This is assuming your case temp does not go up as the PC heats up, and that you use default voltage. If you start upping the voltage, the temp difference grows by another factor (Vn/Vo)^2, which will build your CPU temp fast. So, I suppose it is possible for you to keep it cool if you have everything lined up correctly, but I would not expect an average user to be able to do that. I went through about 6 XP chips, and was not overly impressed by the mobiles.

BTW, why step down to 2.4 if you claim 2.6 at 42C? I'd be all over that, unless the voltage is like 2.2V...

mmm.... do you possibly think that people will get different results? Don't tell people that do get to 2.5Ghz that they are nuts, its luck of the draw with overclocking and nothing is set in stone.
Mine runs fine at 2.5Ghz with an ALX-800 and Panaflo L1A.

Mmm. I would run at 2.5GHz too if I did not run Prime95 all the time, which was the only point of my post. During summer, those temps climb high inside my house, especially on the second floor, where my office is. Come back and say your story when you DO run the CPU at 100%, and if your temp is below 60C, I will congratulate you. BTW, my case temp reaches 41C in the summer, so the guy claiming to run at 30C would obviously not be able to do that in my house.

yay for air conditioning

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: Thrilla
I'm still debating .. either waiting and saving for a 6800GT or just plunking down $250 now for a 9800XT

250 for an XT is a total waste of money. you could get better performance for a little more, or almost the same performance for 100 less at BB after rebate and coupon.

The Xt is a worst buy right now.