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[no_1_dave]

Yup, it arrived at 8:58 this morning but I had to go to work at half 9 so had no time to try it till now. Its 4 PM & I have work again at 5 so this is just a quick check really.

It arrived & bundled with it were the 61.21 beta drivers. I use the 61.36 drivers for it as they're newer & they were the ones I previously used for my 5700 ultra.

My system specs are:
Athlon64 3200+ (2.2Ghz)
MSI NeoFIS2R motherboard
1024Mb Ram (2x512 not in dual setup)
Nvidia 6800 GT (61.36 drivers)

3DMark03:

My score on this was 11284

I use 1076 resolution cos thats all my monitor supports up to. Its a 15 inch TFT screen. It isnt the registered payed for version etc so I was just using the initial settings as I cant change them. Bare in mind I use my machine for other things too. I have not used a drive cleaner & I dont quit any processes.

Here's a list of active processes while running 3Dmark03:

Name PID Memory Usage
3DMark03.exe 1216 13 MB
bcmwltry.exe 324 4 MB
CoreCenter.exe 1124 7 MB
csrss.exe 676 3 MB
ctfmon.exe 668 3 MB
EM_EXEC.EXE 484 4 MB
explorer.exe 1928 20 MB
Idle 0 20 KB
lsass.exe 756 1 MB
mdm.exe 1464 3 MB
NAVAPW32.EXE 340 6 MB
nvsvc32.exe 1496 3 MB
qttask.exe 524 2 MB
rundll32.exe 652 5 MB
services.exe 744 3 MB
sgtray.exe 476 4 MB
smss.exe 612 464 KB
SOUNDMAN.EXE 504 3 MB
spoolsv.exe 1348 4 MB
svchost.exe 956 3 MB
svchost.exe 1000 20 MB
svchost.exe 1168 2 MB
svchost.exe 1192 4 MB
System 4 244 KB
tfswctrl.exe 352 4 MB
winlogon.exe 700 2 MB
wmiprvse.exe 1824 5 MB

FarCry (patch 1.1)

I now run farcry in 1076 resolution (obviously no higher cos my monitor cant support higher). I run it on the highest settings with AA on high & AS on 8. So with 8AS 6AA & the highest possible settings the average fps is 70 - 80. I have only had it drop below 60 twice & below 50 once (it dropped to 42 when fighting loads of people in a heavily detailed area).

Heres some screens, as you can see nvidia have fixed there texture & shader issues:







I'll take some in outdoor locations later, I just dont have a lot of time right now. It runs outdoor just aswell as indoor. I have some but not enough time to sort through my online pics folder. I need more web space in it.

Problems:

Only 2 so far:

1) FarCry auto detects to low settings, cant auto detect my card yet.

2) After playing farcry for half an hour my cards temp was at 70 degrees. I think its time to plug my cases side fan in.

Just one last thing. remember these are beta drivers. Official ones usually run better, I just need to wait for them & the 1.2 patch apparently makes things run even better still for 6800's.

So yea, may post some more pics later after work

[no_1_dave]

Yup, it arrived at 8:58 this morning but I had to go to work at half 9 so had no time to try it till now. Its 4 PM & I have work again at 5 so this is just a quick check really.

It arrived & bundled with it were the 61.21 beta drivers. I use the 61.36 drivers for it as they're newer & they were the ones I previously used for my 5700 ultra.

My system specs are:
Athlon64 3200+ (2.2Ghz)
MSI NeoFIS2R motherboard
1024Mb Ram (2x512 not in dual setup)
Nvidia 6800 GT (61.36 drivers)

3DMark03:

My score on this was 11284

I use 1076 resolution cos thats all my monitor supports up to. Its a 15 inch TFT screen. It isnt the registered payed for version etc so I was just using the initial settings as I cant change them. Bare in mind I use my machine for other things too. I have not used a drive cleaner & I dont quit any processes.

Here's a list of active processes while running 3Dmark03:

Name PID Memory Usage
3DMark03.exe 1216 13 MB
bcmwltry.exe 324 4 MB
CoreCenter.exe 1124 7 MB
csrss.exe 676 3 MB
ctfmon.exe 668 3 MB
EM_EXEC.EXE 484 4 MB
explorer.exe 1928 20 MB
Idle 0 20 KB
lsass.exe 756 1 MB
mdm.exe 1464 3 MB
NAVAPW32.EXE 340 6 MB
nvsvc32.exe 1496 3 MB
qttask.exe 524 2 MB
rundll32.exe 652 5 MB
services.exe 744 3 MB
sgtray.exe 476 4 MB
smss.exe 612 464 KB
SOUNDMAN.EXE 504 3 MB
spoolsv.exe 1348 4 MB
svchost.exe 956 3 MB
svchost.exe 1000 20 MB
svchost.exe 1168 2 MB
svchost.exe 1192 4 MB
System 4 244 KB
tfswctrl.exe 352 4 MB
winlogon.exe 700 2 MB
wmiprvse.exe 1824 5 MB

FarCry (patch 1.1)

I now run farcry in 1076 resolution (obviously no higher cos my monitor cant support higher). I run it on the highest settings with AA on high & AS on 8. So with 8AS 6AA & the highest possible settings the average fps is 70 - 80. I have only had it drop below 60 twice & below 50 once (it dropped to 42 when fighting loads of people in a heavily detailed area).

Heres some screens, as you can see nvidia have fixed there texture & shader issues:







I'll take some in outdoor locations later, I just dont have a lot of time right now. It runs outdoor just aswell as indoor. I have some but not enough time to sort through my online pics folder. I need more web space in it.

Problems:

Only 2 so far:

1) FarCry auto detects to low settings, cant auto detect my card yet.

2) After playing farcry for half an hour my cards temp was at 70 degrees. I think its time to plug my cases side fan in.

Just one last thing. remember these are beta drivers. Official ones usually run better, I just need to wait for them & the 1.2 patch apparently makes things run even better still for 6800's.

So yea, may post some more pics later after work

[Mocib]

Thank you very much for this post. Posts like this are always welcomed

I'm going to buy a GeForce 6800GT too so this is also very useful to me personally

Would be nice if you could post screens where the pixel shader effects are more visible: shiny surfaces, shadows etc..

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[no_1_dave]

I will tomorrow. I just got back from work & its midnight lol

Athlon64 3200+ (2.2Ghz)
MSI NeoFIS2R motherboard
1024Mb Ram (2x512 not in dual setup)
Nvidia 6800 GT (61.36 drivers)
15 Inch TFT monitor, max res 1076 x 768 (Thats the res I play all my games in too obviously)

[mike2211]

to no_1_dave:
when PCI express cards arrive, (or already arrived), http://www.nvidia.com/page/home
will you keep it or donate to the Salvation Army?

[demonx5584]

From what I remember the 6800 cards also support being in a PCI-Express slot.


And stop this ATI/Nvidia fanboy ****. They're both VERY good companies that have their own advantages & disadvantages. What would anyone do without either one of them? Go with Intel's onboard shat?

[no_1_dave]

No they have a pci express range coming out. You can get the 6800 series with pic express instead of AGP

Athlon64 3200+ (2.2Ghz)
MSI NeoFIS2R motherboard
1024Mb Ram (2x512 not in dual setup)
Nvidia 6800 GT (61.36 drivers)
15 Inch TFT monitor, max res 1076 x 768 (Thats the res I play all my games in too obviously)

[kozan27]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the top screen shot, you have a min. fps of 29! Maybe I critisize my fps too hard which is why i use some medium and some high settings on my p4 3ghz, 1024mb ram and 9800 pro :P

[Jabroni_619]

You're not wrong, but seeing that his average FPS was 111.3, chances are that it was at 29 for a mere split second, which could have been caused by something as simple as coming accross a save point, or some random disk access.

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[no_1_dave]

Never noticed it going to 29. That place is a save spot though. It's on the carrier just before you go up to the helicopter so i'm guessing that'd be the reason

Athlon64 3200+ (2.2Ghz)
MSI NeoFIS2R motherboard
1024Mb Ram (2x512 not in dual setup)
Nvidia 6800 GT (61.36 drivers)
15 Inch TFT monitor, max res 1076 x 768 (Thats the res I play all my games in too obviously)