Chaintech GeForce AA6800 Turbo

In action

Installing and firing up the Chaintech AA6800 Turbo was a treat.  The card's fan is sports some blue LEDs.  These add extra cool points in for you LAN box.  What I almost missed though was the UV reactive fan shroud.  Very sharp looking indeed.

  

Performance

To give you a reference point for the performance of the overclocked Chaintech card, we used our Inno3D GeForce 6800.  The Inno3D has proved itself a solid performer based upon NVidia's basic 6800 reference design.

Our benchmark suite consists of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004, Doom3 and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.  This is a good representative sample of the most popular games out.  Each bench was run five times per product with the highest and lowest of these scores being thrown out.  The remaining three were then averaged which is what you see here.  We used the most current NVidia Detonators v61.77 drivers in all testing.  Now, on with the show.

Test Bed

• Intel 2.4GHz Pentium 4 ‘C’ chip @ 3.3GHz / 1.875 volts

• ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe mainboard

• Corsair TwinX 1024 XMS4400 DDR

• Seagate 120gb SATA HDD

• Windows XP Pro with all patches and SP2 installed

Results

We start our testing out with Far Cry and the Fort Demo.  Using the BenchEmAll! program to obtain individual scores, we tested at 1024, 1280 and 1600 resolution in both a minimum (speed) and maximum (quality - but with FSAA/AA off) setting. 

In speed trim, we see no effective performance difference.  This changes somewhat with some eye candy turned on but not enough to be statistically significant.

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Pg 1 - Introduction
Pg 2 - The Card
Pg 3 - Performance Far Cry
Pg 4 - Performance UT2004 / Serious Sam: TSE
Pg 5 - Performance Doom3 and Eye Candy
Pg 6 - Overclocking and Conclusion