NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT Roundup
ASUS V9999 Gamer Edition
Package bundle
Telling it right here - that will be a special talk. So as not to distract from the technical details and features of this board, let's first take a thorough look at the package bundle, because it is really no good ignoring ASUS' package bundle.
The bundle of V9999 GE is made in ASUS' best traditions. The box itself and the bundled items are truly magnificent. See for yourselves:
1. ASUS V9999 Gamer Edition video card;
2. 15-pin D-Sub/DVI adapter;
3. S-Video/RCA adapter and extension cords;
4. Bright and big user's manual;
5. Drivers & utilities ÑD ;
6. Orange CD-Suite in which we found the following CDs:
b) Games - Deus Ex Invisible War, GunMetal War Transformed, Tom Clancy Splinter Cell, Warcraft III : Reign of Chaos, Big Mutha Truckers, BREED, Colin McRae Rally 3, TOCA Race Driver ;
b) Media Show SE 2.0;
c) ASUS DVD XP.
7. A latest generation web camera, traditional for ASUS video cards.
Design and layout
Now it's high time to look at ASUS V9999 GE. ASUS made an outstanding move producing two non-standard solutions among the series of products based in GeForce 6 Series chips:
- ASUS V9999 GT/TD - a board on the base of GeForce 6800GT but equipped with 128Mb DDR(!) memory and offering rated 350MHz/700MHz DDR frequencies.
- ASUS V9999 GE currently under investigation.
The key features of the solution are in that it is a smart combination of GeForce 6800 (12õ1/5vp), the ÐÑÂ of GeForce 6800Ultra (GDDR3 256Mb 2.0 ns, two connectors for additional power supply) and rated operating frequencies typical of GeForce 6800GT, i.e. 350MHz/1000MHz DDR.
The board is made on blue textolyte which is similar to almost all the line of ASUS cards made on GeForce 6 Series chips, except V9999 Ultra/2DT made on green textolyte offering a cooling system - an exact replica of NVIDIA's reference.
As was noted, the PCB design is a replica of GeForce 6800Ultra reference boards. As we see, there are two connectors for additional power supply, and all the 5 BGA circuits under a separate radiator are welded (on GeForce 6800GT - only 3 of them).
The cooling system is very similar to what is installed on V9999 Ultra Deluxe. It is made as a single-slot structure and comprises a fully copper radiator (unlike that of aluminum in Gigabyte's model) that covers the GPU, a separate radiator for all the memory chips positioned on the front side of the card, and a lid with a fan.
A special feature of the cooling system is the bluish illumination. It is available also on cooling systems for ASUS solutions based on ATI chips, of which there is a direct evidence in October calendar showing ASUS AX800XT PCI-E in all its glory.
But let's not depart from the topic :-)
The major - GeForce 6800 - is in what follows. Judging by the marking, the chip is of revision À1. The rated GPU frequency on this board is 350 MHz unlike 325 MHz declared for GeForce 6800 non Ultra.
As was said, the card is equipped with 256Mb of GDDR3(!) video memory with a 256-bit data transmission bus made up of eight Samsung memory chips marked K4J553230F-GC20 and positioned on the front side of the board in the BGA form factor, of 2 ns access time. This is equivalent to the rated 500 MHz (1000 MHz DDR) at which the memory runs on the board.
Draw your attention to the two connectors for additional power supply
and the outputs - analogous, digital, and TV-OUT.
Now, prior to leaving AGP for a while and moving to the PCI-Express world let me tell you about an experiment which I conducted during the first minutes of testing V9999 GE. As you can guess, it is about the attempt to enable all pixel and vertex pipelines originally available in quantities of 12 and 5, respectively.
Of course, the trick was done with RivaTuner 15.2.
First off, the bad news. I was able seeing 16õ1/6vp, but through a prism of huge number of artifacts in 2D already.
The good news is that on attempt to enable the vertex part separately, all started up perfectly and I could see the cherished label in RivaTuner - 12õ1/6vp, and without any artifact both in 2D and in all the applications.
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