BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC - With a 20MHz core clock speed boost over a stock GeForce 6800 GT, BFG's GT OC delivers a consistent-albeit modest-performance advantage. The real kicker for this card, though, is BFG's true lifetime warranty. BFG offers lifetime coverage for its entire GeForce 6800 line, ensuring unequaled protection for your graphics card investment. Unfortunately, while the performance and warranty are excellent, BFG's bundle is sparse at best. With no bundled games (freely downloadable demos don't really count) and few extras, BFG's offerings seem most appropriate for performance enthusiasts who don't get much out of bundled extras they probably already have anyway.

Chaintech Apogee AA6800 - The Apogee AA6800 is probably the most well-rounded offering in the comparison when it comes to extras, warranty, and performance. For starters, the card comes with plenty of cables, a nifty monitor cleaner, and copy of Commandos 3. Throw in a two-year warranty and a 10% overclock, and the AA6800 starts to look pretty compelling. Unfortunately, the 10% overclock rarely translates to a 10% performance advantage, but I'm not going to argue about a few bonus frames per second here and there.

eVGA e-GeForce 6800 Ultra - I could go on and on about how the e-GeForce 6800 Ultra offers the best performance of the lot, but since it's competing with vanilla 6800s and GTs, that wouldn't be fair. It also wouldn't be right to highlight the card's dual DVI ports, since in the Ultra world, they're hardly unique. I can, however, praise eVGA for bundling Far Cry with not only its GeForce 6800 Ultra, but also its 6800 and 6800 GT-based offerings. The game is a $40 value and definitely worth playing, if only as a tropical vacation from DOOM 3's dark hallways. Sadly, as hot as I am for eVGA's game bundle, the e-GeForce's one-year warranty is disappointing, especially as it applies to a $500 product.

inno3D GeForce 6800 - Despite coming with a stack of software titles, the inno3D GeForce 6800 doesn't offer anything above and beyond the competition. The card's one-year warranty is unremarkable, the cable bundle is missing a Molex power splitter, and apart from Commandos 3 and WinDVD, the software bundle has a lot of demo-filler one could download for free anyway. That doesn't make the inno3D GeForce 6800 a poor choice, especially if one isn't not concerned with warranties or extras; it just doesn't make the card wildly different from most other GeForce 6800 cards.

PNY Verto GeForce 6800 GT - Apart from a unique and potentially confusing "product lifetime warranty," the Verto GeForce 6800 GT is about as vanilla as they come. Stock clock speeds, a nonexistent software bundle, and plain appearance don't exactly get my heart racing. However, the card's cable bundle hits all the important areas, and the product lifetime warranty has the potential to be better than one- and even two-year warranties. All in all, that's not a bad deal. Just not a very exciting one.