The most weird thing about XFX 6800GTs

PC Hardware & Gaming Graphics Cards & GPUs
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Hi people.
Well i just checked out the friend’s 6800GT which is installed in his new system.
Out of curiocity i used a tool nibitor and opened the bios of the card that i has saved using nvflash.
And to my surprise the manufacturer there is written as Gainward and not XFX.
There is nothing wrong with the card and its brought shrink wrapped.
Its 100% XFX with bloue PCB.
So i checked the card that i have and same there.
I called up couple of other friends who has XFX 6800GT. And one of them is saying his card is properly getting XFX as manufacturer.
Its only the new cards that are reporting this strange thing.
I could thing of only 3 explainations.

  1. Its buggy nibitor.
  2. XFX is using Gainward Bios.
  3. Gainward is making cards for XFX (OEM supplier).

all cards were purchased form seperate dealers so that rules out the fraud on dealer’s part.
Strange…

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hmm…

BTW funky, tried flashing ur card with the gainward BIOS?? heard it gives a serious power boost..( the golden sample ones )

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Was this a agp or pci-e card funky ?

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I have heard that 2x XFX 6800GT dont work well with the Asus A8N SLI. Dont know if this is true

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u heard it wrong i guess.. coz IIRC, darky has that exactly.. :face_with_tongue:

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this is observed with AGP cards. i donk know about pci-express.

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I wanna flash my XFX 6600GT…any1 help me with it? and will the Gainward Golden Sample Bios help??

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you can not flash a 6600 or 6800NU to a GT