Here my Leadtek A400 & A400 GT :)

Hey all

Here some tech specs of these two NV40 based graphics cards:

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Leadtek A400 AGP 128MB 256Bit DDR Rev.A 0605

This card was made in Year 2005, during Week 05

This is a GeForce 6800 AGP 128MB 256Bit DDR which uses a NV40 GPU

This GPU has the following:

12 Pixel Shader Pipelines

12 Pixel Shaders

12 ROPS

5 Vertex Shader Units

Shader 3.0 Support for DirectX 9.0c

OpenGL 2.0

Here the photo's of this card after cleaning:

Here the card in it's full state:

Leadtek A400 GT AGP 256MB 256Bit GDDR3 Rev.A 0450

This card was made in Year 2004 during Week 50

This is a GeForce 6800 GT AGP 256MB 256Bit GDDR3 which uses a NV40 GT GPU

This GPU has the following:

16 Pixel Shader Pipelines

16 Pixel Shaders

16 ROPS

6 Vertex Shader Units

Shader 3.0 Support for DirectX 9.0c

OpenGL 2.0

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Here the card in it's full state:

As you can see the A400 GT is missing part of the fan's filter the ring + filter is missing as well as a small plastic piece from the rear of the plastic shroud which would overlap to the rear copper heatsink.
Even so, without these parts the card will still function fine though, but as a collector I will always try to find parts I am missing, as anyone would.

Here both Leadtek WinFast A400 & A400 GT graphics cards pair shots:

So yea still a lovely set, But I'm also looking for a Leadtek WinFast A400 Ultra AGP as well, these have Dual DVI-I and the same beefy cooler as the A400 GT
These were my favorite GeForce 6800 series ever made, and so far that mini collection is taking shape nicely.
How ever the A400 is my favorite of the two, it's single slot cooler is even sufficient to cool an A400 Yltra for example and it's single slot as well, being full copper that too give it a nice advantage.

if anyone can help me find the missing parts for my A400 GT and that Ultra I'd be grateful

Quote from Gaboou

Hi, that's a nice collection you have there!

My first own graphics card was the A400 GT so there is quite the nostalgia factor for me here! :')

It was a pretty solid card and a fairly good overclocker often reaching Ultra speeds on the core (Going from 350 to 400+ MHz)! B-)

And Pixel Shader 3.0 effects ROCKED!!! The other day I launched the then impressive Nalu Demo and it still looks amazing even today! :O

I was searching for good pictures of it and stumbled upon yours. 8-)

Unfortunately I don't own it any more, BUT: I still have the parts you mentioned lying around and found them today after reading your post!

I took them off back then because dust was collecting very quickly on the filter clogging the whole thing and not allowing enough air to pass through...

And I didn't want the hot air from the one side to blow onto the other one.

I'm not sure if I still have the tiny screws for the ring somewhere but the long ones are still int the plastic part.

I would be willing to mail them to you to complete your beautiful set if you still haven't found them somewhere else.

Cheers

Gaboou

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OH hey thanks man yea I'd love to take those over, I'll DM you my details many thanks for looking out, also I found out that the single slot cooler also works on the GT even an Ultra could work with it, you could make your 6800 GT or Ultra Single slot that way hah just a olden tip

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Wunderschöne Karten, ich steh' auf Leadtek's Kühler aus der Zeit, großartig!

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Absolutely beautiful cards, I love Leadtek's coolers from that time period, great stuff!

Yea Leadtek & Gainward were my favs after the Hercules days of 3D Prophets, we had so many great AIB's back then they all had their own designs as well, the TYAN Tachyon 9800 Pro also looked really nice and used a similar wrap around HSF like that of Leadtek & Chaintech I think it was, such cool concepts that actually worked well too, not something you have anymore, new gen cards are stupid nowadays with Triple slot coolers or even bigger even it's not even of actual need.

Back then quality sold for more, but now it's just bigger coolers on graphics cards selling for lots more, yet the quality aspect has been left out completely....

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Diese Qualitätsgeschichte ist defintiv wahr. Wie bei meiner Referenz-RX 7900 XTX; Da hatte ich ja einen Lüfterlagerschaden nach nur wenigen Monaten. Nachdem ich die Lüfter inspiziert hatte kann ich nur sagen: Das ist der billigste Chinesenschrott. Die Lager sind Kernschrott und wobblen herum, was für die Gleitlagerung natürlich niemals gut sein kann. Der Garantiefall ist absolut katastrophal abgelaufen. Der indische (oder pakistanische?) Kundendienstler hat ganz klar nicht einmal verstanden was ein Lager (oder ein Versagen desselbigen) ist und hat Sachen wie msinfo Reports angefordert, und andere Sachen mit NULL Signifikanz. Lächerlich. Ich denke der hat noch ned Mal kapiert was ein "Lüfter" ist. Direkt bei AMD zu kaufen kann ich echt niemandem empfehlen.

Ich habe mit dem Typen für Wochen gestritten, während er meinte mein 600 W Netzteil wäre schuld, weil AMD will ja >=650 W, Alter! Am Ende habe ich ihm ein Video geschickt, wo die Karte am Tisch rumlag, und ich habe die Lüfter der Reihe nach mit der Hand angestoßen. Das Rattern des kaputten Lagers war sofort deutlich zu hören. Danach habe ich ENDLICH meine RMA bestätigt bekommen.

Die Qualität moderner Karten ist einfach SCHEIßE, sage ich euch. Hardware wie Kundendienst. Wenn ich den Kundendienst anrufe, erwarte ich daß ein Europäer oder ein Amerikaner oder ein Japaner abhebt, der wirkliche technische Kenntnis des Produkts hat! Aber das ist im PC Bereich leider Geschichte.

Ich meine, Lüfterschäden gab es auch früher Mal. Aber erst nach 10+ Jahren, und die Dinger haben auch ned vom Start weg rumgewackelt wie Sau...

Ich mag's, wie gut du dich um die alten Trümmer kümmerst!

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That quality thing is definitely true. Like on my reference RX 7900 XTX; I had a fan bearing failing on my card after just a few months. After inspection of the fans I can only say: That's the cheapest Chinese trash. The bearings are horrible and the fans tend to wobble, which quite obviously can't be good for the sleeve bearing system. The warranty case was handled absolutely horroribly. The support guy from India (or Pakistan?) was clearly not even capable of understanding what a bearing (or a failure thereof) is, requesting msinfo reports and trash with ZERO significance. Ridiculous. I'm not even sure if that guy understood what a "fan" even was! Buying directly at AMD was definitely not something I'd recommend.

I argued for fucking WEEKS, while the guy was arguing it was my 600 W PSUs fault, because AMD says it should be >=650 W, oh my ggod! In the end I sent him a video of the card lying on a table, with me spinning all three fans by hand one after another. The rattle of the broken bearing was very clearly audible, and FINALLY I was granted an RMA.

Quality is SHIT with modern cards, I tell you. Both hardware and support. When I call support, I expect a European or US or maybe Japanese person with real, technical knowledge about the product to pick up! But sadly, that is no longer a thing in the PC sector.

That wouldn't have happened in days of old...

I mean, bearing failures happened in the past as well, but only after 10+ years, and the thingies didn't wobble like crazy right from the start back then...

I like how you really take care about those old cards!

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200% correct sir! And as for taking care of my old parts even if it are Power Supply Units, Mainboards, Graphics Cards, Sound Boards as well as 3D Add on cards, every part I get I send directly to Backfire for inspection, recap and repair if that is of need, but recaps always the parts are well over 20 to 25 years old, once the age is over 25 years it's not retro it falls under the vintage rank, so renewing these vital organs is very important if you want to make safe use of these very old parts.

Everything I get that is older than 10 years will get the best treatment possible.

The New gen hardware isn't worth wasting so much hard earned coin for how Geralt of Rivia would state it.
my Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6800 XT SE had VRAM issues within2 months, it took well over 9 weeks to get my card to the importer of Amazon because Amazon was very inappropriate to take on the service to aid me with my issue, I let my dad handle this, if you buy from Amazon and you have surpassed them 30 days you can say goodbye to your so called customer support and warranty, their warranty for computer parts is 30 days.... the fucking retards.

My dad had to do deep research and find the distribution center of Amazon EU which was at the time in Dresden Germany, he made contact and they were willing to help out, they asked us to send my card to them ,we did that and once they got it, they read my claim and made contact with Sapphire in Hong Kong and the RMA was accepted, once there two VRAM chips were renewed and the card was tested for 48 hours and sent back, this was during Christmas and New Years so it did take time, but at least my card got fixed and it has been working fine since January 12, 2024.

These problems started happening in a map in VR Chat when I had the card for like 5 weeks man, I was like what the actual fuck Batman.... I paid 733.90 Euro's for this card and this is the quality I get for buying the best RX 6800 XT on the market... like HOW lmao

At first it looked fine


But after 10 minutes things started to break on me....second pic is after 30 minutes... High Quality New-Gen Hardware? HAH! my bloody fuck'n arse.



Here the same test I did with the Nitro+ RX Vega 64 and this one had no issues so I knew the Nitro+ RX 6800 XT SE was the issue:

Same starting point:


10 mins later no issues and 30 mins later (2nd pic) also no issues:


Build quality wise even for the best of the Radeon brands here I name in my case Sapphire Technology Hong Kong, China, it's still shite in comparison to what we had back in our days 20+ years ago.
Cheaper quality solder ya know how it goes, garbage marketing look at NVIDIA's RTX 50 series what kind of shit show that is....omfg

They were a paper launch at first, then the power connector melting returned it seems NVIDIA did not learn from their mistakes with the RTX 40 series, black screens at start up and during gameplay happens a lot or one screen is white and the other two are black if using multi monitor setups, the Missing ROPS and the fake MSRP's... ah yea that lmao Missing Some ROPS Perhaps? Thanks NVIDIA...

Here some good videos about NVIDIA's lies and concerning 12VHPWR melting connector issues... they didn't learn from the first mistake they made with the RTX 40 series and were like huh lets do the same for the RTX 50 series lmao....the retards...

Buildzoid from Actually Hardcore Overclocking explains how and why these power connectors are so bad and so bloody unreliable....
Actually Hardcore Overclocking - How NVIDIA made the 12VHPWR connector even worse.

How Nvidia made the 12VHPWR connector even worse.

Der8auer's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndmoi1s0ZaYPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/buildzoidTwitch(mainly gaming streams): https://www.twitch.tv/b...

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And Seeing that Sapphire uses this connector on their Nitro+ RX 9070 XT also scared me as many others, it's the same connector using the same unreliable method.. Why Sapphire Why lol.... That NVIDIA fucked up is one thing but I never expected Sapphire to have billions of dying brain cells and do the exact same dumb thing... the PowerColor Red Devil & Hellhound cards have 8 pins the Sapphire Pure and Pulse have these as well, but me being a Sapphire Nitro user this was very disturbing.... just NO, they were more stupid than the definition of the word stupid it's self, it's that bad.

Actually Hardcore Overclocking - Taking a look at Sapphire implementation of the 12VHPWR connector on the RX 9070 XT Nitro+

Taking a look at Sapphire implementation of the 12VHPWR connector on the RX 9070 XT Nitro+

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buildzoidTwitch(mainly gaming streams): https://www.twitch.tv/buildzoidAHOC Shirts: https://actually-hardcore-overclocking.c...

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And it's not only NVIDIA that is doing this AMD and Intel are just as bad, 97% of the time there is still no stock and the cards that are in stock are 450 to 500 Eur more aka overpriced and not even worth anyone's time.

Roman Der Bauer also does a god video regarding NV's RTX 50 series with these connectors and he says it's an extremely concerning problem, he also mentions Buildzoid, Buildzoid knows what he is talking about, NGreedia Shills. they just don't...

derBauer EN - 12VHPWR on RTX 5090 is Extremely Concerning

12VHPWR on RTX 5090 is Extremely Concerning

Check out the new Thermal Grizzly Duronaut:https://www.thermal-grizzly.com/en/duronaut/s-tg-d-002---------------------------------------------------------Mus...

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derBauer EN - The real "User Error" is with Nvidia

The real "User Error" is with Nvidia

Make sure to check out the Endorfy Navis AIOs:https://endorfy.com/en/category/cooling-main/liquid-cooling/---------------------------------------------------...

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Heck even this NVIDIA employee has to lie and sacrifice himself all because he works for nGreedia, yea poor lad, heck you can even hear him thinking on what to say next or even how to reply...
derBauer EN - NVIDIA's Embarrassing Statement

Nvidias embarrassing Statement

Check out the new Thermal Grizzly Duronaut:https://www.thermal-grizzly.com/en/duronaut/s-tg-d-002---------------------------------------------------------Ori...

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Graphically Challenged even made a video regarding the major out of Stock issue making these new Radeons & GeForce cards inexistant!

Graphically Challenged - Good Luck Buyinga GPU.....

Good Luck Buying a GPU...

Thanks to Vip-cdkdeals for sponsoring this video. 30% off code: GPC20▬ Windows 10 pro ($17):https://www.vip-cdkdeals.com/vck/GPC20w10▬ Windows 11 pro($23):ht...

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And this is why I gave up on the new -gen market and will concentrate fully on retro parts only, my Nitro+ RX Vega 64 still works, this is probably because it has server grade parts on it, Vega's were very well built and these were the last good quality built cards from camp AMD.

Yea I was like I don't want ANY of that crap, back to retro it is then lmao, at least us Retro builders or collectors or what ever you'd call it have a choice to avoid all of this and do things we love and even our 20+ year old parts are consisted of much better build quality than any of these new-gen pieces of E-Waste.

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After my 2080Super, i used a Gaming X 3050 and now a Gaming X 4050... i mean 4060. (Nvidia die Lügner!)

Because i doesn't feel comfortable anymore with new high End Stuff. To much stuff can broke after warranty...

My Gaming X 770 and Gaming X RX480 still runs like charms. But they come from better times in Hardware industry.

So im a big friend of MSI Gaming X/Z Series, but you would not believe, the X 4060 looks much cheaper as the X 3050. Maybe i will not go further for new Hardware because its all scam.

And RTX50 is nothing to Talk about. Its an Upgrade from Riva 128 to Riva 128ZX, thats all ... a big scam.

Yeaps pretty much from a 4090 to a 5090 in raw Full RT/PT Performance without DLSS a 4090 does in native 4K only 20 fps a 5090 does 27 haha it's ajoke right... it's that stupid.
4090 goes for well over 2400 a 2600 Eur where I live while the 5090 goes for 3400 to 4100 euro, I have the perfect meme for that scammy E-Waste shite:

And no You don't even need a RT GPU to enjoy your RT games Linux and the power of Open Source can get RT games running great on AMD GCN GPU's as well as RDNA 1 &2 GPU's, I am sure that RDNA 3 & 4 will also work, even though, those were not mentioned.

This only works on AMD GPU's GCN and above is all supported HD 7000 series and up, and you need Linux:

Clewless Clay - Emulate Hardware Ray Tracing Support on Old GPUs (GCN Old)

Emulate Hardware Ray Tracing Support on Old GPUs (GCN Old)

RADV ray tracing lets you emulate ray tracing in software in order to let you play games that require hardware accelerated ray tracing like Indiana Jones and...

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Linux & GCN lead the path to victory, you don't need to be reliant on Microsoft anymore to enjoy games either.

Yea thanks man that is very generous as for the black mini screws I don't think I have those myself, so yea if you can add them that would be nice, sorry fro asking though.

Many thanks go to Gaboou for gifting me the missing parts for my Leadtek A400 GT graphics card, here the pics if them missing parts that he shipped to me:


And here both Leadtek A400 cards nice and complete side by side:

Leadtek WinFast A400 AGP 128MB 256Bit DDR Rev.A1 0450
Leadtek WinFast A400 GT AGP 256MB 256Bit GDDR3 Rev. A1 0450







They look much better now as a set, just missing the Leadtek Winfast A400 Ultra AGP 256MB 256Bit GDDR3, not sure if 512MB models were made for AGP though, but I do recall that some PCI-E variants did come with 512MB 256Bit GDDR3.

Many thanks again man!

Quote from Gaboou

Hey, I'm glad I could help! Looks nice with the missing parts screwed on!

Yea they sure do, probably some of the coolest looking NVIDIA cards made, Leadtek surely knew how to impress the crowd with these, the single slot cooler of the A400 even fits and works fine on the A400 GT & A400 Ultra even being, that way you can make the faster models in to nice single slot card.

All thanks to the copper heatsinks these things have, the single slot option is more than enough to cool a GT or even an Ultra.