Avoid Gainward

Simple as, really.

Specifically their 6800 LE series.

Wrong BIOS for the memory thats on board causes a black screen when memory
clock is at its default 700Mhz.
U have to downclock it to 500.

http://forum.gainward.de/viewtopic.p...=biod+download

Ebuyer seem(ed) to be purposely holding back on getting any Leadtek cards in
below the £200 price bracket till they shifted their 300 Gainwards.

Avoid like the plague

I wish i did.

since they're all built around the same GPU would another BIOS from a
different manufacturer work I know that it would for older 5900 cards. they
could be flashed with the BIOS from a 5950 and the timings worked fine, even
on 128MB cards.

Robin