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Originally Posted by cadaveca If the card has been a pipe-disabled gpu, sometimes voltage is all that is needed to get the bad set performing. Sometimes they simply disable the set of piplines maybe because power-consumption was too high...not that it artifacted...sometimes they have excellent yeilds and an excess of gpu's so higher-performing parts are sold as lesser parts...
See, nVidia seem to have this bad habit of selling failed parts by simply re-labelling. For example, the 7900GTO...no longer to be found...7900GTX's w/ a bad batch of Samsung memory and a lower-clocked bios is what it really is...(new working units have infineon ram, AFAIK...may have changed since)...
6800GS i think had issues with capacitors? Black-screening or something?
Irregardless, it's hard to know what to do in terms of modding without knowing what gpu is under the heatsink, either using software or by physical indentification. |
Not true. There was nothing wrong with the cores and the memory was clocked down, but timings were tighter, so when everyone tried to
OC the memory to 7900GTX speeds, it killed the RAM. Those who successfully flashed the BIOS to 7900GTX (which loosened the timings), didn't have the failure like the others (some MSI were still crapping out I think). People assumed that eVGA just rebadged failed 7900GTXs because they just put a sticker on their 7900GTX boxes (to save cash), when the new boxes came out, everyone assumed that they were improved, but they hadn't changed at all. My eVGA 7900GTO's RAM ran at 880MHz without a BIOS flash and never had a problem, it was good RAM and could take the speeds and the tighter timings.
Now as far as the 6800GS......I would have spent the money on a 7800GS AGP, my local bestbuy has about 4 of them on the shelf for only $171. Cheaper and faster than the 6800GS.