Computex`2004: Mobo Foxconn
Only true monsters of the industry can afford to take liberties of creating own PCB for GeForce 6800 Ultra or X800 XT - these products are too complicated, and their sales amounts will be paltry to arrange production process at tens of enterprises. ATI and NVIDIA themselves place their production with partners. There are exceptions, although very rare. We already wrote in the news about Gigabyte's development of own card for GeForce 6800 Ultra (NV40):
 PÑB Gigabyte GeForce 6800Ultra AGPBut at the company's expo stand there is still a standard top-end card built on the NVIDIA chip
| Gigabyte GeForce 6800 Ultra AGP |
Gigabyte GeForce 6800 AGP |
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| 400/1100 (Core/Mem)256Mb GDDR3256Bit Mem16 pipelines |
325/1000 (Core/Mem)256Mb GDDR3256Bit Mem12 pipelines |
The right-hand, non-ultra version, is already the company's own. Like at ASUS's expo stand, there was no interim GT version, although both companies promised to produce it. The GT is 16 pipelines albeit with reduced clock speeds of the core and memory (350/1000Mhz). Doesn't make sense dumping the chips whose all the 16 pipelines were operative albeit did not reach the intended frequencies...
But all this is simply exotics to demonstrate the technological advancements of the industry. For common people, there are different, quite fresh lines of PCI-Ex video cards:
| Gigabyte GeForce 5900 PCI-Ex |
Gigabyte GeForce 5750 PCI-Ex |
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To be more precise, they were "fresh" still at CeBit 2004 - who knew that Intel would delay the launch of Grantsdale for so long... The frequencies of these cards are absolutely standard - after all, these are full analogs of their AGP brothers with the PCI-Ex bridge added.
 AGP -> PCI-Ex bridge chipThat is, even in theory the use of PCI-Ex cards won't give any boost. The purpose of their release is to provide the market with cards of new standard - just to have something to insert into the new bus. ATI followed a different path and released new chips for the PCI-Ex, namely, X600 and X300:
| Gigabyte X600 XT PCI-Ex |
Gigabyte X600 Pro PCI-Ex |
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Gigabyte's ATI X300 will be released in the SE version - with 64-bit memory, although the chip supports 256-bit memory architecture. Such little ones are not bought for games, just on the contrary - to prevent employees from playing games at their workplaces :-)
| Gigabyte X300 SE PCI-Ex |
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