Gregory_WE I cant offer you a link because Im going by faded memory, but I was considering going 6800 GT or GS with my new system and so I have spent some time reading reviews on them and have decided to stear clear of the 6800s all together
the reason is that your problem is apparently a common one with these cards, I read reviews that described the exact same problem your haveing, but none of them mentioned benchmarking or overclocking
they described long pauses, then the game going back to normal for a while, then another long pause
I recall one poster offered the explanation that its a well known issue caused by some bad memory ending up on these cards (or something like that, still going from memory)
if this is confirmed I guess youll be RMAing that card
Im going right now to wade through possibly hundreds of reviews on newegg/tigerdirect/google, so that hopefully I can find what I found before, and prove that Im not just makeing this up to scare you or something
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well I searched newegg and tigerdirect for where I might have seen these reviews but I cant seem to find more than one reference to this problem, from a poster who states that there is a known issue with some bad GDDR3 memory on these cards, but I know I seen more info on the problem than this in reviews, I just cant seem to find them now, maybe Im skimming through them to fast and missing em
you could google "6800 pausing" and find all kinds of results, but you could do the same with 6600 or 7800 or any other card, so thats not much use
I might not be able to back it up I guess, but Im still looking, gonna go through new egg reviews again, gotta run out right now though
but heres a link to a review, check the forth review down from the top, its only an AGP 6800, but says he solved a 65c throttling issue ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustR...=N82E16814140067&SortField=0&Pagesize=&Page=3