Installation & Impressions (Cont.)

After 10 days of benchmarking and gaming we noticed just how dusty our office must be as the fan system or impeller collects significant amounts of dust. I suspect a regular maintenance cleaning will have to a regular routine.

The superscalar architecture for the new GeForce 6 Series GPUs, with its native 32-bit pipeline and imaging advancements, improves speed and precision across a broad range of imaging operations and effects allowing for the some of the hottest game play.

The GeForce 6800 Ultra PCX utilizes a new 6-pin PCI Express power dongle. It will pay to invest in a PCI Express ready power supply unit, however its not mandatory, you can easily get a gender changer cable and use that, we just prefer having a fully dedicated PSU that is PCI-Express compliant...

We are fortunate enough to be able to review this card as they are in such high demand that to get your hands on one, that the privilege is gratifying. It is a very powerful GPU and PCI Express reeks of the words future proofed. With buying early comes that longevity reward of future proofing as well as bragging about your new kid on the block high performance gaming rig.

The new GeForce 6800 Ultra PCX is such a powerful card that its causing CPU limitation issues on slower systems. CPU Limitations is based on the fact that the GeForce 6800 Ultra PCX in some cases will be held back at the expense of the CPU. Thus at a certain point, benchmarks and other in game experiences and performance depends on the speed of your system.

We really like the NVIDIA artwork that graces the fan shroud. Her name? Nalu! Sorry guys she's taken. But yeah the graphics of the fan cover look cool and in a way, compliments the look. Look deep into the cooling fins and you will see the copper core cooler.