Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT Unleashed
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Your 6800 GT reminds me of my FX 5700 Ultra by Chaintech which had 2 fans and blue LED lighting as well. With my P4 Rig I had a Geforce 6800 and it was a beast of a card and I played alot of Doom3 back in the day.
Awesome Phil, this is very nostalgic for me as the 6800gt was the first decent mid/high range card I ever owned! Wish I had kept it now...
There are so many reviews of the new stuff and it is so good to see things like this covering the older technology, that can still pack a punch! Keep it up! 👍
Back in the day (I think it was 2003) I had a P4 3.0C GHz with HT and a GF FX 5900 Ultra on the i875P platform and I also upgraded to the GF 6800 GT.
Later I upgraded to the Radeon HD 3850 AGP. I used that system until Sandy Bridge came out in 2011.
I never thought I would ever use a system as long as this one again, but my i7 2600k is still going strong and will catch up and overtake next year.
And compared to the P4 system the 2600k is still fast enough for everything I throw at it. I upgraded the graphics card to a 1080Ti last year, so I'm still good.
Nice upgrade path.
Species0001 your 2600 will bottleneck 1080 ti somewhat they overclock well though I had one at 5ghz back in the day would remove a lot of bottleneck for sure
I had my 2600k overclocked to 4.4Ghz until this year with a GTX1070. I don't know if the motherboard or the cpu gave up. Now on an older Xeon 6-core X5675 at 4.4 Ghz which is faster in multi-threaded games ;)
@@JohnSmith-iu8cj Similar to all the setups I had. Had a P4 2.4ghz with a Ti 4200(this system rocked), then a 3.2ghz p4 with 865pe mobo, and 1GB mem with 2-2-2-5 timings. Those were the days.....Oh, but it had a 5700le($hit card), then upgraded to a 6800gt in..2005? But that 6800 was just a beast. Got the 7800gs(still AGP 8x, too) wasn't impressed. But the mermaid demo was killer for those cards at the time!
Then I got an Ati 3870, and after that I was Ati all the way. And now since Nov 2011, I've been rockin' my trusty 2600k oc'd to 4.7ghz on air with a Vega64. I play everything @1440p maxed out or almost. Probably about time to upgrade, but why?
Brilliant! Always been one of my favorite cards.
I remember lusting after one in school. I only had a 6200 at the time.
I made a retro dream PC a couple of years ago with a 6800 Ultra and 3.2GHz Gallatin Pentium 4 extreme edition.
The last Geforce 6800 I ordered was DOA, nice to see that it is holding up well in retro titles, ill be honest that I still prefer my X800, but the Geforce 6800 is becoming a much more common option over here, in terms of pricing and availability.
Yea I also like the Radeon cards from that era, they are good cards.
The moment when your favorite review channel is reviewing your favorite graphics card
iam a huge fan of the 6800 series as well ! they are just special
I'm finally coming back and watching your videos more again. UA-cam buried them in my sub feed and I forgot how great this channel is!
Thanks!
The 6800 GT was my first proper graphics card that I ever bought! Had a WinFast A400 (256MB 6800GT with a stupidly heavy custom cooler). I still vividly remember downloading a hi-res texture mod for Thief Deadly Shadows and being blown away by how realistic the game looked, and spending hours late at night in my University dorm room deeply engrossed in it. The 6800 GT also powered me through hundreds of hours of TES Oblivion when it first released. Great times!
I bought this exact card in 2004 for $400 so I could play doom3 in all it's glory! It was a nice feeling having the top of the line GPU. Then shortly after was the 7800gt, and I was like damn it! Then is seemed like the 8800gt was out in no time, ahhhh!!!
I actually remember my cousin got a gaming pc that was branded as FragBox. It was a mini-ITX computer that had an all clear acrylic body so you could see everything inside of it. Then to add to the aesthetic it had blue LED lighting including the cooling fans and it had this card in there. That was a cool little machine back then.
Back in he day I had leadtek GF6800LE with the nice copper cooler. I was lucky and mine unlocked from 8/4 300/700Mhz to full 16/6 430/933Mhz so the performance was around 6800ultra. Shame for just 128MB of Vram but it was mostly enough back in the day. I started with it on Socket A, had it trough K8 era and I even build my first core 2 system on the Asrock I865 motherboard back then just so I could keep this card. Only in 2008 with the arrival of 8800GT I switched to PCI-E motherboard and that card. Good times and massice overclock. Nowadays you squish like 5-10% extra from your card, I got double the performance from my 6800LE hehe.
Thank you for this nice video, like the others. Back in 2004, I had a Point of View 6800 GT AGP, and changed the original cooler to a NV5 Silencer. Today in 2018, I have a Gigabyte GV-N68T256DH 6800 GT 256MB AGP with a nice hardware monitoring and also a NV5 Silencer.
I remember those Arctic Silencers well :)
Shader 3 gave the 6800 series a long life.
Yea I thought about that one, but the way I see it, with resolutions and monitors growing so rapidly at the time, and new cards coming out quickly, most upgraded quite frequently, at least I did, even on a budget with the 7900 GT for example.
True, however I recall saying 'fuck it' when Crysis came out. That game was the death of my trusty 6800. Upgraded to a Radeon 4870. Even that card struggled in the snow levels. I got a whole 2.5 years out of my 6800GS turned GT. Good run.
Never realized how identical Doom 3 and Quake 4 are.
I've never seen a cooler like that before. Good video.
That was BFG for ya.
I turned my 6800GS into a GT. Best free +4 pixel shader pipelines ever. Got me through Oblivion.
Ah, yes, the era of unlocking video cards. I miss that :)
ah i had this very card the BFG 6800GT was a monster when it came out
Never got one. I bought two 6600 gt to run them in SLI though. This good old times. :D
Always nice to see this stuff in your videos. Gives me a bit the feeling to be back in time, listening to some actual tests.
I chose 7600GT AGP over some 6800 about 10 years ago, they were quite equal on most terms, but the older card used more power. Used it with AMD Barton 2500+ on a NF2 mobo.
I use one of these with my Tualatin-1575 system! A little out of place in such a system, but I can crank the resolution and details settings without ever running into a GPU bottleneck. Doom 3 at 1600x1200/Ultra, and at 47 fps, it's still being limited by the CPU.
The Geforce 6800/6600 cards were fantastic. I had a pair of 6600gt's (PCI-E) running in SLI with a socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 4400+. Those were 128mb cards, so I was a little limited when it came to resolution, relative to a 256mb 6800 GT.
Finally got mine hooked up, its been a great card for me so far. Although i had more luck with the latest Omega driver which was made around 2007. It gives great performance, nice visual quality and doesn't have missing texture issues on the retail build of Half-Life 2.
So for people wanting this card get the latest nvidia omega driver and if you want to run it in Win98 the stock 77.72 driver. Both drivers are very stable in my build and give great result.
And phil, in case you read this it would be fun to see a driver recommendation video from this 2007 era. Both ati and nvidia cards had famous custom drivers availible that can get better gaming performance, fidelity or compatibility. So it would be fun seeing a comparison video what the best drivers are between stock 2007, ngo , omega and the latest driver. For me so far the omega driver is the winner.
I built a pc with the ultra version of this card for HL2 alone! Then quickly realized that buying the top spec of anything back then was a waste of money, as it became obsolete within a year and a half. Crysis came not even 3 years later, lol
Prey was the first game that made me realize i'll have to upgrade sooner than later....The next setup was a 8800gtx and 4gb ram, amd athlon 64 x2 6400+ black edition, and from a 20' 1024x768 4:3 to a swanky 1600x900, 27' acer. That pc with the 8800 is still kicking to this day!
Performances in Most Wanted reminded of my GT 8600 air cooled passive.
Interesting review, very good analitical review
It's funny how the performance decreases at each Need for Speed iteration
I dont understand, its 60fps locked, no?
Never mind, I see it now. Its weird though, I played the hell out of NFSU2 with a Geforce 5500 Ultra OC back in the day and it handled it no problem.
yes... the last one (most wanted) was actually a launch title for the Xbox 360, so already going heavily into the "SM 3.0" era, almost 2006, so fairly good performance still...
@@DarkLinkAD Those were the times, where you had to switch Nvidia gpu drivers to older or newer for each game, to get the best performance. Ah the nostalgia xD
I couldn't afford a 6800GT, i was pretty young when it came out. So i gambled and bought a 6800LE to try and unlock it's pipes, i managed to unlock it from 8/4 to 12/6 pixel pipes and vertex shaders and it overclocked very well.
I had a 6800LE too, Asus 6800LE @ 12/5 375/940MHz (effective)
I had the 6800GT. It was my final AGP card. I had it paired with my Athalon 3200+XP for years. I ran that one until i built my Second Gen i5 system with a GT240.
I had the EVGA 6800 GT in my old Athlon XP 3200+ system. Was pretty upset when I bought a Pentium D system a few months later and realized it had no AGP slot... ended up putting it on a shelf and buying a PCIe 6600GT. Years later I tested it and got massive artifacts in games so I tossed it. Then recently I put the Athlon 3200+ back together and the 7600GS I tried in it did the exact same thing until I found drivers it liked...so kicking myself some more. I also missed one by 4 hours on Craigslist that was the same EVGA one, in the original box, and for $10.
Yea the driver version can make a big difference.
I should add that up until very recently the 6800 GT was the most expensive card I have ever bought. Still shows in my Newegg order history for $390 on 9/15/2004. I've gone mid-range ever since.
Nice. My story is similar, I believe the 7800 GTX was my most expensive card ever. Also went with mid-range cards ever since.
Really nice card, I hope someday you will get the 6800 Ultra AGP to do some comparisons :)
There's probably someone who already asked you but how do you capture gameplay ? It's such a good quality I'm always impressed ! Thanks in advance :)
0:09 I miss Nvidia Nalu and ATI Ruby.......both companies have tried to 1984 all record of them and act like they never existed. you know these are dark times.
I upgraded my agp ATi radeon 9800pro 128mb to pci-e xfx geforce 6800gt. I was a radeon fan but i could not find x800xt instock so i opted for 6800gt. It had same specs as 6800 ultra except core clock was down from 400mhz to 350mhz. Fortunately for me my card overclocked happily to 400mhz so i was happy camper back then 😊. It was fast enough card to enjoy far cry & doom 3 at 1280x1024 resolution. It also did ok in half-life 2 finally allowing dx9 mode to work
Nice!!
So many hours of Far Cry, Doom3, BF2, & CS: Source fun with my 6800GT back in the day.
I had one of these with a Pentium 4.
I also had a GeForce 5800. It's performance is better than people give it credit for!!
Wow, this is a real blast from the past.
I came back and rewatch this video because I got a XFX6800 XT PCIe from a free PC with AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+. Currently keeping these things until a few years later that they become more valuable. It also has a high end Asus A8N-SLI deluxe motherboard
I just managed to snag one of these BFG 6800 GT OC cards on Ebay! Can't wait to put it into a retro AGP build and do some early-aughts throwback gaming :D
Phil, did you hire a stunt driver? Either that or your driving skills have noticeably improved.
Great video! Could you make a video on this card in a Win98 or ME system? I plan to build a system with a Geode NX and this card and would love a video about its compatibility for Win98 games! I owned an Athlon Thunderbird back in the days that died to overclocking and want to rebuild a powerful A3D machine for Unreal, GTA and Counter Strike.
John i have since build a rig which dual boots into 98 with a gigabyte 6800GT AGP 256MB. If there is anything specific you want me to test let me know. My first impressions of the card are highly positive.
@@Henk717I didn’t get to test my 6800gt yet. Instead i was very busy trying to get multiple 7900gs to work on the asrock 775 with mixed results under 98. i didn’t know that you had to install a second 512mb patch from rloew for the gpu as well. I have a problem getting a signal over DVI and I am not sure if it’s the cables or something else. Need to try more. The 6800gt is supposed to go into a P3 1000 pretty soon. Did you experience any compatibly problems under win 98 with the 6800? Phil sadly never made a video about it under 98. which driver is the best? The 81? The 7900 uses the 82 and it seems a bit rough, whenever I am in the Windows Nvidia control panel the screen blanks for 2 seconds if I change anything.
@@JohnSmith-iu8cj 6800GT I used the 77 driver I think it was 77.72 or something like that for the best compatibility. DVI itself introduces some compatibility issues with dos software that is fixed by using VGA but I do get DVI output. Other than that no issues in the OS. Some games dont work well with the newer drivers it needs, those I have a voodoo 2 for.
I remember I got an AOpen 6800GT 256MB back in late 2004. Can't remember when I got rid of it though. I got a Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP in 2006, but kept the 6800GT as a spare.
Bought a Gainward 6800 GT ‘Goes Like Hell’ edition back in the day which can be overclocked to that of an Ultra. It cost a fortunate back then so I never parted with it and it still goes like hell to this day! A extremely reliable card. 👍
I had an fx5900xt (still got it, and it still works!) and upgraded it to a stock 6800 as I couldn't afford the gt. Lucky for me I was able to unlock the disabled quad of pixel pipelines and effectively make it into a gt. One vertex shader unit was damaged though so I had to leave it disabled. Anyway it all ran brilliantly on the xp3200 system I had at the time.
I did want the GeForce 6 series after seeing it in a magazine, but I waited long enough for the GeForce 7800 GTX and a Athlon 64 X2. That was certainly a nice upgrade from my Athlon XP/Geforce FX 5600 system
A friend had this very same card and it died twice. I had to hand carry it both times to the US as BFG didn't have an RMA center in India.
Nice one as always Phil.
Thanks.
I had a graphics card of this moddle, I loved it so much. It was so good. I'm still trying to get another one.
I still own a BFG 6600GT OCX, I never needed the 6800GT because of this card. I have fonder memories of this card than the BFG 8600GTS that replaced it eventually.
I had one of the more expensive 6800 back in the day.It was the gigabyte 6800 gt vanilla if i can remember correct.It came out with pipe cooling no fans.It came out with 12 pipe line but 4 could be unlocked through riva tuner.Was a beast on my old p4 3ghz north wood
JUst watching this review because the scalpers bought this instead of the 6800 XT lmao
I own a eVGA 6800 GT, great card back in the day.
About overlay, I suggest that you install an old version of Afterburner and also install an old version of graphic driver too. Like 2.0 series afterburner will do the job. #PhilsComputerLab
I've never thought of that. It does work with later cards and drivers, we will see that in an upcoming video!
Half-Life 2 is hilarious. PS3 and X360 struggles with 30FPS in 720p, yet weaker 6800GT pushes it like nothing in 1080p XD.
I had one of these in the Northwood core P4 system I built to play City of Heroes. Good card.
Yeah this card was a really big deal. While ATI reigned the top end with their X800XT Platinum, the 6800GT controlled the highend market for the rest of us. A $400 beast that honestly risked costing NVIDIA sales of their (perpetually out of stock) 6800 Ultra. And most could be overclocked to the same speed anyway. ATI only had a 12-pipe card at that same price point, and it really wasn't a fair contest.
Also FW 307.83....hmmm, not what I would have chosen for "top" performance. I'm guessing that's because you were hoping for Afterburner compatibility though.
I wanted a 6800 GT, but all I could afford was a 6600 GT. I have to say even that card was quite capable for the time, paired with a Presler Pentium D. It lasted until I eventually built a new system around a Core 2 Quad.
Yup I think many people did this.
if i remember correctly the 7x.xx drivers were the best and the 9x.xx drivers had the best compatibility
I just built something with this GPU I found and am going to use it for media and just casual at home computer use for people who have to be doing school from work.
Awesome video Phil! Do you happen to have a 6600 GT video in the works? 😀
I do, especially PCIe. AGP I only have 1 working card.
It is ridiculous how small a cooler you could get away with back then. A typical gtx 1080 has a cooler that could probably handle the entire system that card would normally plug into. Ended up here after looking at the recommended specs on my boxed copy of Oblivion.
I had the 6800 NU and that cost like $400+. It was a hell of a card but I remember getting rid of it quicker than I thought I would. I don't recall why but it wasn't because I needed money or anything at the time.
I had an FX5600. Meeh but it had the best video capture onboard for the time.
My first gaming PC had a second hand 6800 Ultra and Pentium D.
I remember those tech demo's, my pc failed horrible :)
I actually find those 6800 demos quite bland, nothing compared to the cool Ruby demos on the X800 series :D
Phil
At that time I bought all the cards..
ATI X800Pro 256Meg Quad pump special edition from Sapphire was the bomb back then..
But Nvidia cards were ok they had some artifacts wrong and bugs back then..
Some cards were outstanding !
others shit... but in the end if you did your research you got a great card that lasted a long time.
1:54 a pc like that would have cost more than 2k usd at the time, a monster pc with everything on max. I still remember dreaming over the 6600 gt ♥♥♥♥
i had the 6800GS with 4 pipes unlocked and overclocked it was faster than this in the end.
but i think this was a pretty bad generation to get a card. just after this, the xbox360 was released and this card could no longer run new games well at all because it's less than half as fast as the one on the 360. it was painful enduring with this card until the 8000 series. and wherever it did hold up, the 9800PRO would have been enough too.
Not really, there were some games where 9800pro could not hold up, mostly when shader model 3.0 came in to question. HDR in Oblivion, or the first bioshock for example, that did not even start on SM2.0 card. 6800 series was great for the huge OC and pipeline unlocking. I would not say it was a pain to have it till GF8, it was quite a good time. If you have bought like X800 series one... yeah that would be a pain with SM2.0.
the 6800gt ran those games like crap too. i remember having to play bioshock in a really shitty resolution to get decent frame rates.
Yeah, true, but you played them.
i guess i did. but i would much rather have skipped 6800 and went straight to 7800. that one could play these games fine. although i'd have skipped the 8800 which is like twice as fast. meh, iunno. maybe it was for the best.
come to think of it, i had a xbox 360 and played bioshock on that instead, since it ran much better. oblivion was the one that i'd miss.
Same, had a 6800 GS AGP, not a bad card, but it burned itself quite soon with that insufficient cooling system, and some games still were a bit laggy (e.g. Oblivion). 8800 GT was the go-to card after it hit the market, full DX10 support and more than double the performance of a 7800 GT. It could run Crysis well on high detail and handle console ports of the time with ease (except for maybe GTA IV, but we know that was horribly ported to PC). Some modern games still can run on it (e.g. GTA V on low settings).
That's the card that I'd like to put in my older desktop pc with a Celeron 2.0 ghz. I believe it's from early 2003.
I did have a 6800 GT back in the mid oughts. It was my last AGP card, as my next one would be the e-Geforce 7800 GT. I think it was EVGA
Being fair even though you can disable it, portal shouldn't be ran without the portals being visible through each other.
I got a 6600gt from ebay I was going to put it into a dell dimension 4550 but decided to build a new system, I bought a jetway board and am waiting for that to arrive next week
I just wish more cases from 2003 were still easy to by I had to settle for a roswill case as a coolermaster wavemaster was 140 dollers and was also used
Ah yes, great memories of Rome TW, CS Sauce, and Oblivion on this.
Had the 6800GTS. With 12 pipeline, where you could unlock the last 4 pipelines and have 6800GT with a little lower clock.
I just picked up a fan less version by gigabyte for about $30 usd excited to throw this in my pentium 4 system.
I’ve noticed with a lot of these older games, they gave them a yellowish hue for some reason. I guess they thought that looked more realistic?
I skipped the 6xxx series. Had an FX 5950, then a 7800 gt. I have to say the 6800 is a formidable card, still attaining console class performance hahaa
The dual tiny instead of one large fan era 😩
It's a card I'm looking for now, though the ones I see are generally cost more with shipping I'm willing to play. I'd like to compare it to my X800 XT. I remember GF6 being more future proof with SM3.0 support.
That was a killer card! Especially the XT PE. Kicked the $hit out of the 6800 Ultra, not to mention my 6800gt...
Audigy 2 ZS was awesome. Have the same card on my 2nd PC.
Very good content. Hello from Russia/ i am subscribe
Thanks!
Crysis as a Gametest would be pretty interesting
Which version of the drivers do you recommend for this card? BTW I went ahead and bought that board and CPU and I've got to say, I'm pretty damn pleased with the result!
This was my first graphics card I bought for gaming.
Very nice and interesting! As always. CPU let do this gpu it’s best.
Did you notice those messages about "tiling screen in games", "vertical sync" appeared when geforce 7 cards was out? I didn't remember any kind of this problems in previous gen graphics cards
hello Phil which capture card you have used? I'm searching for a capture card which i can record old games from my old PC with old graphic cards without Power Loss. I need VGA and DVI. Any suggestions? Thanks
Have this exact card. I can't get unreal to run on it. It runs, but my screen goes black.
I have the same BFG card but in ultra version, its very nice, maybe I will use it again:)
What's up Phil?
Holy wow what sound card are you using ?
+1 for the only person I've ever seen use the olive theme in xp for everyday use
+1 for noticing :D
Great video, great card! ^_^ I still have one from Inno3D, but it stopped working in 3D. :(
I have 2 6800GT cards ones in my windows XP retro system and My Doom 3 edition card stays stored, I also had an XFX 6800GT when they were new and played Myst 5 and Doom 3 :) scary as hell on the 32 inch monitor back then lol
Was very happy when I picked up my BFG 6800 Ultra this year :) has the retail box too as ugly as the box is lol
I bought my Nvidia FX 5600 Ultra a month or two right before the 6000's were released. I was not a happy camper.
Phil, can you review the GeForce 7950GT?
I had two BFG 6800's, this same 6800 GT OC model and a 6800 OC but they were kinda loud and all of them had a crack across the fans which was easily seen thanks to the clear plastic. (Common issue?) I also had a 6800 GT OC PNY with the reference fan design that worked quite well. I sold the BFGs cause I don't have all the room in the world. (I actually might have the 6800 OC still). Back in the day I did get an XFX 6800, nothing extra but coming from a DX8 card to the DX9 card, I noticed the enhancement in HL2 right away. HL2 should only be played with DX9.
I have the gainward golden sample version, they had cherry picked gpus with dual dvi, 410mhz on the gpu and 1100 ram, plays a lot of games at 1080p 60fps, 3d mark 01 SE on socket 754 with the 3700+ gets 16,050 points, so it seems the CPU is a huge bottleneck here on my system, think ill switch to socket 939 on the nforce4 chipset.
I prefer 93.71 driver for 6000 series. Latest drivers are awful.
Agree'd, i personally used the latest omega driver which dates back to 2007. Much better game support.
I really like your content. I would be interested in you testing a PCI-E 8600 GTS 256mb if you haven't already. It is the card I'm using in my xp machine.
I have not problems with msi arterburner overlay (gpu load, etc) and also have not problem with any games.
My system for 98SE/XP:
Asrock 775i65G r2.0 with BIOS of 3.0
2x1gb of Hynix DDR (running at 480mhz 2,5-3-3-7)
Pentium E5500 4,2Ghz (14x300)
Palit GeForce 6800GS AGP (nv42 12ps) at 535/1350. 3Dmarks are:
01SE 36,5+k, 03 16,5+k
And win98se also without any problems with 77.72 drivers. Under XP - last official nvidia driver