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Search is a cold, but sure friend:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=801165&highlight=bfg
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=795043&highlight=bfg
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=792136&highlight=bfg
For those that are recommending RAM first, keep in mind that after 90 days, he will have to plop down $400 and go through the hassle of getting rid of his 6800NU if he wants to upgrade to a GT.
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2x512 would be optimal. With 2x256 sticks, you are going to have to get 2 new sticks for 1gb of RAM.
The trick is to get rid of your 2x256 sticks to help recoup the cost. I did something similar by selling my 2x256 sticks to a friend who was building a new system. There is always ebay or the...
How about we just keep the reviews as they are and you ignore the X800XT-PE benches and writeups. Bookmark them, so if the card ever comes out, you can go back and reread them.
Problem solved. Best of both worlds.
The Raptor II (74gb) is quite a bit faster than the Raptor I (36gb).
And as this test shows, RAID-0 doesn't help in game load times:
http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101&p=10
From what I've been hearing, BFG's new heatsink doesn't perform as well as the old, reference one.
As for the many BFG recommendations... it's probably because of the many things going for it: lifetime warranty, guaranteed overclock out of the box, overclocks as well as any other GT to date...
We here are only "experts" on a small facet of Nvidia the company. Without doing some adequate research, you are taking a big risk if you want to try to parlay 6800 demand into riches.
I don't think there are any BBATI VIVO's. I think they will just release AIW flavors of the cards later. Only the Pro and the XTPE are listed on ATI's site currently.
Fire up ATItool and check the pipes and the GPU/memory speeds. If it acts and quacks like a XT-PE, it's a XT-PE.