Nvidia 6800LE best price/perf?
 

After running almost 2 years at highly overclocked/overvolted speeds, my 9500NP is starting to produce artifacts. What would be the best replacement? I'd prefer nvidia, because ati cards have nearly worthless linux drivers.

The Aopen 6800LE is priced at a very low 209€, and seems to provide some overclocking/tweaking fun. Should the heat production and poor HL2 performance hold me back?

I would rather opt for a 6600GT, but that's me:)

But the 6800LE is faster, and has the same (or lower price)? Can you find a 6600GT AGP in .be for less than 209 euro?

6600GT is not avaible yet AFAIK, but with launch of X850 series, the X800 will be pushed to price lvl where X700XT is now, and then it make that a killer buy:)

and push down pricing for 6600GT maybe too; I'd stick with the 9500NP for a while longer, certainly after the holidays,

Less than $200

http://www.newegg.com/app/searchProd...gt&Order=price

The guy is in Belgium, Newegg is in the USA.

the 6600 gt is about the same speed as a 6800LE.

I bought the 6800LE today, very nice card! It insures some tweaking fun:

default: 8 pipelines (+2*4 disabled), 4 pixel shaders (+2*1 disabled)
runs errorfree at 12 + 6 (6800GT?)
runs hl2/nfsu2/panzers/.... errorfree, but not doom 3 at 16 + 6 (ULTRA?)

It overclocks to 400/800 (default 300/700) out of the box, didn't test any further.

I'm happy. :)

cool :super:

bought Lapino's 6800GT, does this make us GF6 brothers;)

Does the 6800LE perform much better at 12 pipeline's?
I still think to go for a 6600GT agp (220€).

did not buy Lapino's 6800GT in the end, he's going to keep it, ordered one from .DE