[H]ard|OCP reviews MSI's GeForce 6800 GT (NX6800GT-T2D256E).
The NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT is one of the most popular video cards to date. It offers everything a gamer wants with the latest 3D features and fast performance in the latest games. The fact that it is only slightly slower than its big brother, the GeForce 6800 Ultra, and can, in most cases, be overclocked to Ultra speeds makes it incredibly appealing for enthusiast gamers.
MSI is well known for producing solid motherboards and high quality video cards with their own unique features. One thing that we mention a lot with MSI video card reviews is the bundle. MSI is simply unmatched currently with the amount of games and software they include with their video cards. Furthermore, when it comes to producing video cards based around the GPU, a card?s uniqueness is very important. You need to separate your product from the rest and make something that is appealing to your target audience. MSI has made strides to do just that. They have some unique features present on the video card we are reviewing today that make it appealing for enthusiasts like us.
We have the MSI NX6800GT-T2D256E on the test bench today. If you head over to their Taiwan site product page you can see what product features this video card has. Pay special attention to D.O.T and CopperULTRA. D.O.T stands for Dynamic Overclocking Technology. D.O.T is a piece of software that controls the hardware clock speeds of MSI video cards. You set the level of aggressiveness, and the software will automatically adjust the clock speed. At the maximum end of the scale, you could receive up to 10% more performance using D.O.T without having to worry about manually overclocking. We will look at this later in the overclocking section of this review. The next unique feature on this video card is CopperULTRA and UltraGear. Below we explain what these two features are in detail...
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