Galaxy nVIDIA 6800GT

[kny3twalker]

good news for you 6800 guys

Nvidia 6800 acceleration works

The INQ has received some guidance from Nvidia concerning video acceleration in their 6800 series of cards. It does work as soon as Nvidia releases a set of drivers that make it work. Nothing too uncommon in the video card world, it can take a few driver releases to get everything up to par.


The GeForce 6600 models have the same 1st generation programmable video technology support as the GeForce 6800 models. However, the GeForce 6600 models also include hardware acceleration for high-definition Windows Media Video (WMV) decode.

In order to utilize the programmable decode and advanced post processing features of the GeForce 6800 and 6600, end users need to download an updated ForceWare driver as well as the NVIDIA DVD decoder.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by kny3twalker

good news for you 6800 guys

Nvidia 6800 acceleration works

Yeah, I verified that here:
http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showpos...7&postcount=31

[kny3twalker]

yeah but thats a personal testing experience and this was posted in an article

if you cannot expect that

well it just backs up your verification that it works

[DKT]

I have a couple of questions about the 6600:
1) If the VPP works with this card, what options will this allow with Sage if any?
2) Could FFDSHOW be used in front of the VPP on the 6600?

Thanks in advance.

[stanger89]

None and nope.

[kny3twalker]

well you can add me to the crew
getting the PNY 6800 128MB tomorrow

hehe

[DouglasCleary]

How about some support for encoding using DivX, Mpeg4 or WMV? My harddrive could use the relief.

[SHS]

I don't know about you guys but that new 6600 AGP sure dose look nice

[kny3twalker]

still if you intend on using any AA or AF and do not care about WMVs
then the 6800 is the way to go
6600GT
229-219
6800
250-270

not much difference in price

[exdirtfarmer]

Originally Posted by rotaryracer

Of course, 6600 is only PCIe at the moment, so that does me no good.

If they have a fanless 6600 AGP (and Sage gives me a reason to move to 2.0 - HDTV!) in the near future, would that card be able to push HD, DVD, Live TV, etc. through VMR9 and not choke?

MSI NX6600-TD256E,6600,DDR2, AGP8X is available, not fanless tho. Just ordered one for a customer. If it shows up PCIe I'll chock my sales rep. I hope I get a chance to test it with vmr9.

[SHS]

Well as I under stand it both card pettey the same which bal out the spec across both card it really wasn't about WMV kny3twalker.
Sure the GeForce 6800 has 4 more Pipelines vs 8 but the GeForce 6600 GT has faster GDDR3 memory vs GDDR1 and don't forget thoses review are use 6800 GT.
Also there one BIG plus with the 6600 GT it has component output.
But also keep in mind that retailers bad about are jacking cost up since it's brand new and demand will probably be high priced for a few months.

[kny3twalker]

actually I have seen a review with a 6800 non GT
6800 still did better in almost every benchmark

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/20...p/index.x?pg=2

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/20...p/index.x?pg=4

check out the Doom 3 with AA
the 6800 just leaves the others behind

[SHS]

I see what you ref to now

[kny3twalker]

yeah I will give it up though
if you do not care about AA and AF
the 6600 GT performs the same

but eye candy is nice

[SHS]

Well I just pick up 2 6800 one frome and one for my brother man the are fast.

[sleight42]

Add me to this bandwagon. Just got one for my 50" Grand WEGA.

The 9600GT can go on my older and smaller rear screen projection downstairs.

[kny3twalker]

Add me to this bandwagon. Just got one for my 50" Grand WEGA.

The 9600GT can go on my older and smaller rear screen projection downstairs.

what did you buy? and I guess you meant 9600XT or 6600GT(but which one?)?

[sleight42]

Woops. Meant 9600XT.

Bought a 6800

[kny3twalker]

you get the PNY 6800 199?