Chaintech AA6800 Turbo Edition (GeForce 6800)
Chaintech AA6800 Turbo Edition (GeForce 6800) Features
Package bundle
First of all the box merits a special mention. Frankly, its sight alone tells that there is something deserving a special attention. Well, it's not quite reasonable judging about a product by its package, so we are opening this huge gleaming briefcase and looking inside where we find the following contents:
1. Chaintech AA6800 Turbo Edition Video Card.
2. 15-pin D-Sub/DVI adapter;
3. S-Video/RCA adapter;
4. Cables: RCA; S-Video;
5. Splitter for additional power supply;
6. Detailed nice-looking manual;
7. Stylish transparent CD-Case containing the following CDs:
a) drivers ÑD; DirectX 9.0b; Adobe Photoshop Album1.0; GOSU(Graphics Overclocking System Utility) - a utility for overclocking and software monitoring of the temperature;
b) WinCinema; WinDVD4; WinDVD Creator; WinRip;
c) GamePack V1.0 (Age of Wonders2; Serious Sam2; Rally Trophy; Max Payne; Tropico);
d) Commandos 3 Full Version (3 CDs);
8. And a small gift for true fanciers of NVIDIA - - a monitor wiper of "corporate" green color, nice to look and feel. A useful, nicely made thing packaged in a cardboard box with the image of mermaid Nalu, a symbol of GeForce 6 Series.
Design and layout
The board is made on blue textolyte, a prevailing option for Chaintech products, with the PCB design being an absolute replica of NVIDIA reference design.
Chaintech made its own contribution to the cooling system of the video card in question. From the technical viewpoint, nothing radical has been found. The cooling system, roughly speaking, is a "light version" of what is installed on 6800 Ultra reference board, that is, it is a single-slot board.
There is a separate copper radiator on the GPU, a heat pipe with a radiator on the video memory, and a lid with a fan mounted into it - that's just the structure that covers both the chip and all the memory circuits on the front side of the board.
Chaintech has changed the design of the lid covering all the structure thus accentuating that the card belongs to its product line. Of the changes made by Chaintech, it's worth noting the transparent fan blades and the soft illumination during operation. That is to say, "a slight cosmetic repair". Stylish, nice, and smart.
There is 128 Mb DDR memory with a 256 bit data transmission bus assembled with eight Hynix HY5DU283222AF-22 chips made in the BGA form factor, of 2.2 ns access time, which is equivalent to the operating frequency 450 MHz (900 MHz DDR). At the same time, the nominal operating frequency of the card is 770 MHz instead of 700 MHz according to specifications declared for video cards made on 6800 non Ultra chips. This product is of potential interest to overclockers.
All the eight video memory chips are located on the boards's front side.
As we have already stated, the GPU is pre-overclocked as well. Its rated frequency is 358 MHz. Remember that standard 6800 non Ultra cards offer 325 MHz of nominal GPU speed. Judging by the marking, the chip is made on the 26th week of year 2004 and has revision A1.
The card is also equipped with a connector for additional power supply.
The board offers a set of outputs: analogous, digital, and S-Video. Note their cover stylized for gold-plating. Just another fine spice which we can't help mentioning.
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