6200/6600/6800 Agp cards information

Post by **o'dium** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:29 am

I already have 16 pixel pipelines and 6 vertex shaders that would be why i cant select anything else

As fr the second part of the first post, how do i do this?

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:33 am

driver settings click customise then click the card thing

bingo

Post by **o'dium** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:34 am

Is it automatic? Or do i have to select custom settings? Because i dont know off the top of my head how fast an ultra card is

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:36 am

o'dium wrote:Is it automatic? Or do i have to select custom settings? Because i dont know off the top of my head how fast an ultra card is

I cranked it up till I got one step away from the caution symbol appearing

Post by **MKJ** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:44 am

sucks that it doesnt work on the pci-e versions

Post by **o'dium** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:47 am

[FTF]Pyro wrote:
o'dium wrote:Is it automatic? Or do i have to select custom settings? Because i dont know off the top of my head how fast an ultra card is
I cranked it up till I got one step away from the caution symbol appearing

Tried it, and it moaned about test settings fialing, although it was high. I safely got the test to pass with it being 420 core and 1150 memory speed.

Post by **Psyche911** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:51 am

[FTF]Pyro wrote:
Don Carlos wrote:6600 gt
And its AGP not PCI-Express ...... weird. Should have some

No, it shouldn't. Here's some info to back up what I said:

Anandtech wrote:The 6600 series of GPUs (NV43) are based on the NV40 core architecture. The entire feature set from the 6800 line is carried over with only a few exceptions. First, the memory bandwidth of the card is cut from 256 down to 128. This should have a fairly large impact on AA/AF performance and other very graphics memory intensive operations. The second adjustment NVIDIA includes in NV43 is a reduction in the maximum number of supported pixel pipelines. 6600 series cards have 8 pixel pipelines. This is half the max of the NV40 core.

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Read it here: http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2196&p=2

It's a different chip, there's nothing to enable...

Post by **o'dium** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:54 am

I'm on 16, niiiiiiiiiiiice

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:01 am

i got no masked pyro

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:20 am

Psyche911 wrote:
[FTF]Pyro wrote:
Don Carlos wrote:6600 gt
And its AGP not PCI-Express ...... weird. Should have some
No, it shouldn't. Here's some info to back up what I said:

It's a different chip, there's nothing to enable...

I know the cores are different NVxx and what have you but why is it that some have masked pixel pipelines like mine 6200 by the way not a 6600 or a 6800 and others dont have masked pipelines ?

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:22 am

MKJ wrote: sucks that it doesnt work on the pci-e versions

I think it has something to do with the fact that the PCIE 6800 are manufactured with only 12 pixel pipelines in the hardware and nothing is masked.

I dont know for absolute sure but thats what this Complete Power User Magazine is telling me and its a PC modders bible apparently.

Post by **seremtan** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:35 am

Don Carlos wrote:definatly AGP sir
I have no xx in the right hand colum at all

i'm glad you said this actually because we have the same card and you just saved me the trouble of trying this mysel. cheers :icon31:

Post by **MKJ** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:59 pm

[FTF]Pyro wrote:
MKJ wrote: sucks that it doesnt work on the pci-e versions
I think it has something to do with the fact that the PCIE 6800 are manufactured with only 12 pixel pipelines in the hardware and nothing is masked.

I dont know for absolute sure but thats what this Complete Power User Magazine is telling me and its a PC modders bible apparently.

oh that sounds plausible :icon14:

Post by **plained** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:12 pm

is there a agp card that will get me rockin for q4?

or should i build a pci-e comp or what

Post by **o'dium** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:18 pm

plained wrote:is there a agp card that will get me rockin for q4?

or should i build a pci-e comp or what

Of course there is? I'm on a 6800 agp and it will more than run Quake 4 60 frames on ultra...

Post by **plained** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:22 pm

hey right on ty o'

i doen follow the spec stuff like i shoud.

Post by **reefsurfer** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:27 pm

Thats called pipemodding... OLD!

Post by **netrex** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:34 pm

That's why I bought my 6800 LE instead of a 6600 something, but the unused pipelines were broken, so no go for me.