6800LE to hit retail shelves

[bob05]

DESPITE WHAT NVIDIA told us before, the Geforce 6800LE will be a retail card. When we wrote this article last July, Nvidia immediately picked up the blower to inform us that this won't happen. Well, it has happened.
We spotted this card then in Aldi and Lidl food chain PCs and said so here.

Retail 6800LE card will be clocked to a 6800 standard speed, a 325MHz core and 700MHz DDR 1 memory. A 6800LE will have eight pipelines while the 6800 standard has twelve. Both cards are equipped with 128 MB of DDR-1 memory.

Some of these cards are already available in European shops and they cost from €250 to €300.


Well I know I will be looking into this card for Christmas. :D

[fishybawb]

Anyone know how this is likely to fare against the 6600GT? I might wait for that to come out in AGP flavour... Ah, decisions, decisions. My next card's an nVidia either way :)

[Smagma]

http://www.pcunleash.com/bbs/zboard.php?id=MyItemReview&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=39

Hope that link works. Among other possible mods, he talks about hard modding an LE to an Ultra. Even though the ram will stop you from reaching ultra speeds it will still be much faster than a stock LE

Probably not for the faint of heart :D

Smagma :t

[Imperion1]

Guess nobody say Bigjakk's Thread (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171155) .

[bob05]

Originally posted by fishybawb
Anyone know how this is likely to fare against the 6600GT? I might wait for that to come out in AGP flavour... Ah, decisions, decisions. My next card's an nVidia either way :)

Same here. If the past is any indication, the 6800LE should do better. (6800LE vs. 6600GT=5900XT vs. 5700 Ultra). :t