Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra AGP Engineering Sample

[AGP4Life]

A lot of money, but quite an interesting card. Pretty cool.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166994273762

 

[mnewxcv]

Insane price. Even the $500 a non es one goes for is insane. But it was a beast in its day. Would pair nicely with an fx-51 in a sk8n and some cl2 ddr.

 

[stinger608]

God all mighty, I've got one of those cards. Not an Nvidia brand.

I think the one I've got is an Asus 6800 Ultra AGP card.

Don't think I'd get a couple hundred out of, but hell, who knows LOL

 

[SamirD]

Wow, dual slot agp--never seen that before. Also dual molex and haven't seen that either.

 

[cpufrost]

MADE IN USA

 

[Starfalcon]

Wow, dual slot agp--never seen that before. Also dual molex and haven't seen that either.

Dual slot wasnt that uncommon, most of my last few ATI AGP cards were dual slot. Now dual molex was rare as most cards were changing over to the 6 pin power.

 

[AGP4Life]

MADE IN USA

I actually didn't notice that, very cool!! Just that in and of its self makes it quite rare.

 

[SamirD]

Dual slot wasnt that uncommon, most of my last few ATI AGP cards were dual slot. Now dual molex was rare as most cards were changing over to the 6 pin power.

Interesting to know. All my AGP stuff is just single slot.

 

[Absalom]

If you were to put a reference design 6800 GT right beside this, this dual slot design would look absolutely monstrous. We forget how small graphics cards used to be.

I like how functionally this cooler is the same design as the 5800 Ultra, but the aesthetics of this look so much better. This is the same leaf-blower design but doesn't quite carry the same meme status.

Come to think of it, I still have my EVGA 6800 GT with the mermaid art. Makes me wonder how much it's going for these days?

 

[cpufrost]

Come to think of it, I still have my EVGA 6800 GT with the mermaid art. Makes me wonder how much it's going for these days?

I bought a few of them and overclock them to ultra speeds and found over half were stable so flashed the bios making them essentially ultra cards. They were great.

EDIT: The mermaid was nVidia's "Nalu" demo chick.

 

[erek]

Wow, dual slot agp--never seen that before. Also dual molex and haven't seen that either.

NV30 U was the first dual slot agp

 

[erek]

I've got one of those cards. Not an Nvidia brand.

I think the one I've got is an Asus 6800 Ultra AGP card.

Don't think I'd get a couple hundred out of, but hell, who knows LOL

i think it's the Engineering Sample / Made in USA part of the equation that sets it apart

 

[Starfalcon]

Interesting to know. All my AGP stuff is just single slot.

My last few AGP cards were HIS models, and they were all dual slot with the IceQ coolers. The only late AGP card I got that was single slot was my sapphire HD3850, as it was for my server and I needed to use the 66 mhz PCI slot under the AGP slot.

 

[kindasmart]

My last few AGP cards were HIS models, and they were all dual slot with the IceQ coolers.

I had an aging AGP system, well into the PCI-E era and bought the fastest readily available AGP cards I could find at the time. First the HIS X1950pro. Then after it died I upgraded to the HIS 4670. Both IceQ coolers and both dual slot AGP. Fun times.

 

[Darthgrey]

NV30 U was the first dual slot agp

I think first was ABIT Ti4200 with OTES cooler, it was made before 5800U was released.

 

[Starfalcon]

I had an aging AGP system, well into the PCI-E era and bought the fastest readily available AGP cards I could find at the time. First the HIS X1950pro. Then after it died I upgraded to the HIS 4670. Both IceQ coolers and both dual slot AGP. Fun times.

Yeah same here, I kept my Abit NF7-S until late 2008. I had to upgrade as there were no more AGP cards, and single core cpus were starting to have issues.

 

[erek]

I think first was ABIT Ti4200 with OTES cooler, it was made before 5800U was released.

Oh, you're right