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6800 Ultra Extreme

If you have good airflow you can BIOS flash your 6800 Ultra to an Ultra Extreme. That's what I did with my eVGA 6800 Ultra :p So far so good, but Doom III gives my artifacts sometimes. So what I did was BIOS flashed it to BFG 6800 Ultra OC. So far so good and rock stable and Doom III doesn't artifact with the BFG BIOS after two hours of gameplay in Hell with everything jacked up.
 
if you have the money, get it. its not much of a gain over an ultra, but itd be super cool to have, definatly not something everyone is gonna have :D
 
The biggest extra waste of $70 ever. Skip it, just get the Ultra regular. Id rather get a vanilla Ultra from BFG with lifetime warranty than a card that costs $70 more and comes with a 3 year warranty.
 
Well, an ultra isn't garanteed to run at UEE speeds. So, I'd go for it. It's quite a bit faster than an ultra at high res with AA/AF.
 
I dunno about the Placebo effect, but, the UEE card I have runs nicely at 515/1320. Of course that is watercooled, but I think it is more than most Ultra's. I run it at a nice safe 480/1280 for day to day gaming and bring up a little higher for benchmarks.

So, the real question is, would you pay $70 for someone to comb through a few hundred cards, pick the gems, and the guarantee it to run at 450/1200? And, if you have a problem, give you a replacement within 24 hours? Hmm, sounds good to me ;)
 
Just AGP at the moment. They did have a contest where they gave away a pair of UEE PCI-E cards, so I suspect they will exist in very limited numbers in the near future.
 
Well Im running an Ultra regular right now at Core 520 and Mem 1250, almost hitting what you got right now and spent a lot less than what an UE goes for. Hey, it was a good choice as your card will be even better future proofing, but a certain point you have to say enough is enough. As long asit runs HL2 and DOom 3 well, I guess no complaining shall be done LOL.

BTW, Mine is all on air cooling, no water.
 
minc3d - you got lucky with the card you bought - it doesn't mean that every Ultra will hit those clocks. Mine won't hit 450 on the core with the case temps I've got, even though I've got 2 80mm fans blowing right onto the GPU. Are you on stock cooling?

To the poster - if you can get the UEE, snap it up if it's only $70 more. I've seen reviews of Ultras running at 450/1200 and they seem to be a relatively big jump over the standard 400/1100. I've got a BFG clocked at 425/1100, so obviously the jump isn't quite as much, but if I'd have had the chance to get an UEE, I'd have snapped one up in a heartbeat.
 
minc3d said:
Well Im running an Ultra regular right now at Core 520 and Mem 1250, almost hitting what you got right now and spent a lot less than what an UE goes for. Hey, it was a good choice as your card will be even better future proofing, but a certain point you have to say enough is enough. As long asit runs HL2 and DOom 3 well, I guess no complaining shall be done LOL.

BTW, Mine is all on air cooling, no water.
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There will always be the exception. I always argued that the fastest chips will never be identified, with a possible few finding their into a sytem someone actually overclocks. I think the best chips may still be hiding in a stock card on someone's PC. But, for a $70 fee, you get the into the top 2% of the chips. You can take a chance on a regular Ultra, but you have a 50% or so chance that it will NOT reach even stock UEE speeds. I recommend getting the card for the nominal cost difference.
 
Sorry that I couldn't add any more to my own thread last night but here's the deal.

I currently have a 6800GT and it's running at stock speeds for the most part (despite what my sig says). I entered both myself and my g/f into EVGA's retarded "win a chance to buy this card" weekly drawing and her name came up in the drawing. They want $550 for the card and roughly $20 for shipping (which better be overnight shipping mind you).

When I upgraded my own system she got my old GF3 Ti500 which serves her alright for the most part but it is the weakest part of her system and she does play games with the machine. I thought this would be a great opportunity to upgrade her system as well to a full blown gaming rig and put that Ultra Extreme in my machine (and of course pay for the damn thing).

But...is it really worth it? Will the 6800UE be that much better than the 6800GT? I can see so many other places where $600 will be better spent but part of me really doesn't want to pass up this opportunity.
 
oh yeah...

yes I do have more than adequate cooling in my system and if I would get off of my lazy ass I would finally install the CPU water cooling components that I've got. That would greatly help with ambient air flow for an Ultra Extreme 6800 setup.

Furthermore I have two seperate PSUs attached to this system. One drives all of the fans and HDDs while the other is dedicated to the system and video card alone.

430w PSU -- > motherboard, GPU
300w PSU -- > HDDs, all system fans
 
Work out the percentages - the UEE has a 29% faster core than the GT and 20% faster memory. It is basically 25% faster.

That means frame rate lows of 30 become a noticeably better 38 and good frame rates of 60 become smoother at 75. Sounds like a noticeable gameplay benefit to me.
 
Define better....

I mean, it WILL be faster, but is $570 worth 25% increase in preformance?

That's about $23 for every 1% increase in preformace.

*Shrugs* I personally would say go for it, if nothing other then bragging rights.
 
minc3d said:
Well Im running an Ultra regular right now at Core 520 and Mem 1250, almost hitting what you got right now and spent a lot less than what an UE goes for. Hey, it was a good choice as your card will be even better future proofing, but a certain point you have to say enough is enough. As long asit runs HL2 and DOom 3 well, I guess no complaining shall be done LOL.

BTW, Mine is all on air cooling, no water.
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Have you run any benches with those settings? Just curious what your card can do at those clocks.


But...is it really worth it? Will the 6800UE be that much better than the 6800GT? I can see so many other places where $600 will be better spent but part of me really doesn't want to pass up this opportunity.
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And, since the card is $550 plus $20 shipping, there is only a $50 difference between the Ultra and the UEE. No need to debate the value of that upgrade.

But, sounds like we are discussing whether or not a $550 upgrade on a video card is really worth the coin. Well, depends on what you are doing. If you want to play games, then the 10 fps or difference may not be that important. The GT is kind of the sweet spot for "bang for the buck". I would say pick up the UEE card, eBay the thing for $700 (seems to be what a lot get these days), take the money and buy a $329 6800 GT (MicroCenter). That effectively gives you an additional $150 discount on the GT card. So, $175 final out of pocket or so for a GT would not be too bad
 
HeavyH20 said:
Have you run any benches with those settings? Just curious what your card can do at those clocks.




And, since the card is $550 plus $20 shipping, there is only a $50 difference between the Ultra and the UEE. No need to debate the value of that upgrade.

But, sounds like we are discussing whether or not a $550 upgrade on a video card is really worth the coin. Well, depends on what you are doing. If you want to play games, then the 10 fps or difference may not be that important. The GT is kind of the sweet spot for "bang for the buck". I would say pick up the UEE card, eBay the thing for $700 (seems to be what a lot get these days), take the money and buy a $329 6800 GT (MicroCenter). That effectively gives you an additional $150 discount on the GT card. So, $175 final out of pocket or so for a GT would not be too bad
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Hmm...you have a very good point there. That's something that I never considered. I wonder tho if the buyer would get all the supposed benefits that EVGA is giving to their UE buyers or if those "benefits" are non transferrable.
 
If you have 6800GT I'd just wait for next gen now. Time to get 6800U/E was last summer.
 
RS said:
If you have 6800GT I'd just wait for next gen now. Time to get 6800U/E was last summer.
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That mentality doesn't really work well for me. It's been a couple of years between upgrades for me these days. So that would be 2-3 generations at least. And this way my g/f who plays 3D type games would get a boost as well.
 
Wolf-R1 said:
Hmm...you have a very good point there. That's something that I never considered. I wonder tho if the buyer would get all the supposed benefits that EVGA is giving to their UE buyers or if those "benefits" are non transferrable.
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You need to register the card to get the benefits. So, if you register the card, then sell it, then the benefits do not follow. However, if you sell the card "new", then the ultimate owner is the person who registers the card.
 
If I had the opportunity to get UEE when I got my Ultra I would have myself. If you don't even want the card urself, just buy it and eBay it or sell it here, I'm sure you could make ur money back and then some, then get a GT like the earlier poster said.....but I would keep the UEE for e-penis purposes ;)
 
HeavyH20 said:
You need to register the card to get the benefits. So, if you register the card, then sell it, then the benefits do not follow. However, if you sell the card "new", then the ultimate owner is the person who registers the card.
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I see...I may end up getting this card for myself anyway and forgo a toy that I was going to get for my motorcycle this summer that's about the same cost.
 
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