Leadtek WinFast A400GT TDH (GeForce 6800 GT)

INTRODUCTION

Leadtek is one of the oldest NVIDIA board partners around.  They actually have been working with NVIDIA since the GeForce 256 back with their WinFast GeForce256 DDR.  We at Bjorn3D are always excited when we get a board from Leadtek since they have always offered a good board with custom cooling and a decent bundle.

The Winfast A400GT TDH I am looking at today does not use the NVIDIA reference cooler, but instead, uses the same cooler they use on the Winfast A400 Ultra TDH.  The one thing that some may find as a problem is that this means you have a GeForce 6800 GT taking up two slots, like the GeForce 6800 Ultra does instead of the normal 1-slot solution.  Personally, that doesn’t bother me that much since I always make it a habit to leave the slot next to the AGP slot free anyway. What is more interesting to see with this cooler is if it improves the overclocking potential of this card. Read on to find out more.

FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS

Features at a Glance

•  Superscalar GPU architecture
•  NVIDIA® CineFX(TM) 3.0 engine
•  On-chip video processor
•  High-speed GDDR3 memory interface
•  NVIDIA® UltraShadow(TM) II technology
•  64-bit texture filtering and blending
•  NVIDIA® Intellisample(TM) 3.0 technology
•  NVIDIA® ForceWare(TM) Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
•  NVIDIA® nView(TM) multi-display technology
•  NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control(TM) 3.0
•  AGP 8X
•  Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 support
•  Tech support available 24 hours, 7 days a week 

Specifications

•  GPU NVIDIA® GeForce 6800 GT
•  Bus Type AGP
•  Memory 256MB GDDR3
•  Core Clock 350
•  Memory Clock 1000MHz (effective)
•  RAMDAC Dual 400MHz
•  API Support Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0, OpenGL for Microsoft® Windows®
•  Connectors VGA, DVI, S-Video-Out
•  525 Million /sec setup
•  32.0GB/second memory bandwidth
•  Minimum 350 Watt PSU

THE CARD, PACKAGE CONTENTS AND INSTALLATION

The card came in a very attractive box with a wizard on it and images of games that come with the card.

Package Contents

•  Leadtek WinFast A400GT TDH
•  Quick install manual
•  1 DVI-I to VGA connector
•  1 "Y" power cable
•  NVIDIA® Unified Drivers
•  Video cables for TV Capture and Output
•  The following games: Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell (Pandora Tomorrow, DVD Version), Gunmetal, Big Mutha Truckers
•  DVD  Player
•  WinFox II
•  Cult 3D
•  Coloreal Embedded
•  Coloreal Visual
•  Coloreal Bright

  
The custom cooler is so high that it requiers you to leave the PCI slot
next to the AGP slot free. On the back there is a huge pice of copper.

Installing the card was pretty straightforward.  You do need to have the AGP and the PCI slot next to it free.  The card uses both slots like past NVIDIA flagship products have.  As I said early, it is strange to see the GT using both slots like NVIDIA’s flagship GeForce 6800 Ultra.  The nice thing about the GeForce 6800 GT is the fact that the card only uses one Molex connector and does not need as big of a power supply as the GeForce 6800 Ultra.

 
The huge cooler. Impressive, isn't it?

The Leadtek WinFast A400GT TDH  is just 
as long as the BFG 6800 Ultra OC