Hi !

SikaRippa, your work is outstanding !
I just bought a Gainward 6800LE affected by BS during some games, expecially HL2 and Lock On, a flight simulator that's a real BS-maker with this card, since it intensively uses loads of textures.

Increasing resolution and using antialiasing is even worse, since it stresses a lot more the video ram...

I tried the enhanced cap mod first with a Samsumg cap, 16V 3300uF 85°C. It was still crashing immediately or after a few seconds running HL2- Lost Coast or rthdribl, but no problems with other games like Pro Evolution Soccer 6.

Then i desoldered some good RubyCon MBZ caps from a dead motherboard, 6,3V 3300uF 105°C: the card began to fly !!! I could overclock mems to 860mhz until I saw the artifacts ! I could play HL2 for hours at > 800mhz, but sadly performances started to decreas after a few days, at a point that I had to remove the cap e put in another ( i have 6-7 of those rubycons still ) and the card re-started working great !



Now it's the third cap I mount on the card ( witout soldering ), taking the maximum care to ensure that the contact is good enough... hope that this will work for a much longer time