HotHardWare have thrown up their review of eVGA's GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition! Here's a snip.
The eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition doesn't stray from NVIDIA's reference design, save for the custom fan guard sporting the likeness of the smooth Dr. Timbury! Dr. Timbury first made an appearance at the NV40 launch in a demo that spotlighted the NV40's HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering capabilities.
The eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition's cooling solution is a two-slot design; the model we have here does in fact encroach on the first PCI slot. The blower and shroud are designed to pull air in through the front, and blow it across the heatsinks mounted over the GPU and RAM. When operating at full speed, we found the fan to be somewhat loud, so don't consider this card if you're trying to build a silent gaming PC. Underneath the cooler, you'll find a 16-Pipe NV40 core clocked at 450MHz and 256MB of Samsung GDDR3 RAM clocked at a healthy 1.2GHz (600MHz DDR). The card has Dual-DVI outputs and a video-out connector, and like all other GeForce 6800 Ultra's two Molex power connectors, preferably from two separate PSU lines, are required.
eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition
The eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition doesn't stray from NVIDIA's reference design, save for the custom fan guard sporting the likeness of the smooth Dr. Timbury! Dr. Timbury first made an appearance at the NV40 launch in a demo that spotlighted the NV40's HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering capabilities.
The eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition's cooling solution is a two-slot design; the model we have here does in fact encroach on the first PCI slot. The blower and shroud are designed to pull air in through the front, and blow it across the heatsinks mounted over the GPU and RAM. When operating at full speed, we found the fan to be somewhat loud, so don't consider this card if you're trying to build a silent gaming PC. Underneath the cooler, you'll find a 16-Pipe NV40 core clocked at 450MHz and 256MB of Samsung GDDR3 RAM clocked at a healthy 1.2GHz (600MHz DDR). The card has Dual-DVI outputs and a video-out connector, and like all other GeForce 6800 Ultra's two Molex power connectors, preferably from two separate PSU lines, are required.
eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition
