Thresh & Co hebben een review op het net gekieperd van Asus' V6800 GeForce kaart, uitgerust met 32MB's aan DDR SGRAM. Qua features valt er weinig te vertellen over dit geval, voor extra uitgangen zal je even tot januari moeten wachten, dan komt namelijk zijn Deluxe broertje op de markt. Beetje jammer aan de review is dat er ter vergelijking geen benchmark scores zijn opgenomen van een SDRAM GeForce kaart.
There isn't much to say here. The ASUS AGP-V6800 Pure is just a basic bare-bones GeForce DDR card. The board only has the D-sub monitor output, while the space for the flat panel and TV outputs on the reference design sit empty. You can read more about the GeForce DDR's features in our Hands-on GeForce DDR preview.The AGP-V6800 also features the same ASUS SmartDoctor utility that is available with the AGP-V6600. SmartDoctor includes fan RPM monitoring, AGP power level monitoring, SmartCooling technology, OverHeat protection, and Dynamic Overclocking. ASUS wants to put out the most stable video card out there, overclocked or not. The fan RPM and temperature monitoring ensure that your ASUS card won't overheat and die on you. If your graphics chip reaches dangerous temperatures, SmartCooling will forcibly cool down the chip.
Dynamic overclocking isn't as cool as it sounds. Basically, instead of having the video card running at full speed all the time, Dynamic Overclocking detects when the card doesn't need to work very hard, and downclocks the card accordingly in order to extend the life of the graphics chip. If you're just bumming around in Microsoft Word, your chip doesn't need to be clocked all the way up to 140MHz, but the chip will throttle back up once you launch Quake 3 or UT.
