Gainward CoolFX 6800Ultra and Connect3D X800- XTPE

DH has some goodies in for you today. Double packed with two of the fastest video cards available. Gainward has some nice special cooling to it.

“A few months ago we looked at the reference design products from ATI (X800XTPE) and Nvidia (6800 Ultra), both cards proved to be very fast and were capable of excellent image quality. It’s taken a while for both to make it to market in volume however now those cards have started to appear we have the opportunity to look at some retail products and see how they fair. The first card we have in this article is the Gainward CoolFX 6800 Ultra. Gainward cards have always been of a high quality and even higher performance compared to other brands of Geforce products, the Gainward 5900XT is a prime example of this so we had high hopes going into the review of how the CoolFX would perform. Our second product is Connect3D’s X800 XT PE, the first Connect3D product we have looked at on Driverheaven however not the first I’ve used. My previous experience with Connect3D products has been good; the 9700non pro I once owned was an excellent performer and modded nicely to pro speeds.”

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