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eVGA GeForce 6800 le / AGP 8x / 128MB DDR video card

Saturday, October 29th, 2005 | Reviews, Video Card Reviews

With the slow but sure movement away from AGP to PCIe, there seems little reason why anyone would want to get an AGP card. But as we will see, the not-so-current technology can give you tons of performance for fantastic prices.

The GeForce 6800 card from eVGA is a standard nVidia card with eVGAs labelling on it. The 6800 is the last in the 6000 series from nVidia and has now been succeeded by the awesome 7800.

However fast people convert to PCIe, there are still a lot of people with AGP. AGP is still not bad either, as the speed of PCIe has only recently started to take off compared to AGP.

The standard specs of the 6800 are…

• 128MB DDR
• AGP 8x connection
• Large cooler

This card is the best deal for those who still want cool games on AGP. This card far outdoes its 6600 younger siblings, while still coming in at a great price.

Games handle well with games like Doom3 coming in at about 80fps in high quality mode at 1024×768.

If putting together cheap high powered gaming computers this card will give it that edge it needs without sacrificing a lot in terms of money layout.

Overclocking is another plus of this card. To get a slower card the it’s GT counterpart eVGA just turns off 1 of the pipelines and the card can actually be unlocked so its practically as fast as a GT version.

Overall good value, nice buy to upgrade your computer, but if building a new one, go for PCIe for future upgrades.