Hi, I just got mine this morning, was a bit disappointed to see that all I got was the card, i would have liked the PCI-e power connector cable also but I nicked it from my old 6800ultra, I guess i'll have to buy another when coming to selling the 6800ultra.
Well first impressions upon viewing the card was, wow, the reference heatsink is actually preety good, it has about 4 heatpipes spreading the heat nicely, it eshausts hot air from one side which is preety nice, the fans a decent size also.
On mine I had a DELL label on it, which is a bit weird but there you go what can you say?
The size of the card is really rather large, im wondering did it actually need to be this big, its actually about half an inch bigger than a 6800ultra and the 6800 cards are fairly big, but its not really a problem for me as my case is tidy and fits neatly in my cast.
Hooked it up seems to be working perfect, just ATI testing for artifiacts now, this card is really quiet I think the combination of the big heatsink and big fan at low speed makes this thing barely audiable next to my case fans, the 6800ultra used to be by far the loudest thing in my case before.
Temps are really low on this aswel, idle temp is a magnificent 39 which is rather good considering the lowest idle temp I ever had with another card was around 50c or a little over, load temp is around 64c which is good again nice to know the card is running cooler on the reference cooler and quiet, was tempted to get a v900 but theres not much point really, im sure if I put AS5 on everything should be a little nicer also.
So what has everyone else got with their b-grade stuff, is it all working good?
Well first impressions upon viewing the card was, wow, the reference heatsink is actually preety good, it has about 4 heatpipes spreading the heat nicely, it eshausts hot air from one side which is preety nice, the fans a decent size also.
On mine I had a DELL label on it, which is a bit weird but there you go what can you say?
The size of the card is really rather large, im wondering did it actually need to be this big, its actually about half an inch bigger than a 6800ultra and the 6800 cards are fairly big, but its not really a problem for me as my case is tidy and fits neatly in my cast.
Hooked it up seems to be working perfect, just ATI testing for artifiacts now, this card is really quiet I think the combination of the big heatsink and big fan at low speed makes this thing barely audiable next to my case fans, the 6800ultra used to be by far the loudest thing in my case before.
Temps are really low on this aswel, idle temp is a magnificent 39 which is rather good considering the lowest idle temp I ever had with another card was around 50c or a little over, load temp is around 64c which is good again nice to know the card is running cooler on the reference cooler and quiet, was tempted to get a v900 but theres not much point really, im sure if I put AS5 on everything should be a little nicer also.
So what has everyone else got with their b-grade stuff, is it all working good?
hope my 6800 doesnt have the same problem...getting me worried now.
