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Superclocked EVGA 512 MB 8800 GT WITH CRYSIS!!!!

fornowagain said:
And thats why I commented. I'm not in favour of restricting the legitimate use of the language. My point, when reading the sentence, is I understand it to mean the hardware has been devastated, overwhelmed. Not that its been sexually molested.
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And that's fine, I was just saying how it made me feel/think. It's in the power of the recipient of a communication to decide how they feel about it. We're just different that's all, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'd prefer if we just dropped it now, and leave the thread to get back on track. :)
 
Tooks said:
That's what I feared unfortunately!! Hope it doesn't go wrong then, or if it does, it happens within the year!!
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Touch wood 'taps self on head a couple of times' youll be fine, any way even if something did happen theres still no garuntee youd get a crappy RMA service, i mean even if 80% of a companys RMA'S are shoddy theres still the other 20% so people get lucky.
I looked over that once id written it and I myself arnt even sure if thats supposed to make you feel better and i wrote it lol!
 
I have thought of a new name for this card
Superconned EVGA 512 MB 8800 GT with Crysis Which it will struggle to run blisteringly fast PCI-E retail.
 
C64 said:
I have thought of a new name for this card
Superconned EVGA 512 MB 8800 GT with Crysis Which it will struggle to run blisteringly fast PCI-E retail.
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It didn't seem to struggle a single bit when Gamespot played it (on a huge LCD) on their latest on the spot video review and looked better than the demo to boot....
 
Exactly, if you dont have the card, how can you **** it, its the best available out the box card.

If you want to play Crysis well your need dig deep and buy a £500 GPU (new Ultra or whatever comes out) not a £200 GPU.

Everyone has a story to tell about a manu and they own bad rap with them.
 
It's never going to be anything other than a 2 or 3 month card or even less than that for most people that frequent these forums.
Lets see how many people still have this card come the GTS launch, the hype is unbelievable it's about 10-20 fps better than a gts hardly the messiah.

It's a good card but don't pretend it's anything other than a stop gap the only reason people bought it was to avoid a resale price plummit on their gts or gtx if it were £250 different story completely.

When the new gts arrives it will bump the resale value of this down too and people will sell and get the gts.
I am not slagging the card at all as i am likely to buy one too this friday and my comment was tongue in cheek as it will not run crysis blisteringly fast as described in the details.

If anything you are better off picking up a 2nd hand gts for £100-£120 which i would strongly advise anyone on a tight budget do rather than pay £200 for this.
 
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im not pretending anything, not everyone buy's a new card every time something is released (actually the majority wont). its a good card, 20FPS over a GTS is nothing to be sneezed at especially at the same price, and again not everyone is on a 8800 so this is a even bigger leap (ie the OP is on a 6800)

the new GTS is only a few more stream processors and a larger memory and mem bus. no sane person would buy a GT and then get a GTS. its going to be either or. and the difference will be minimal imo. these slaughter the lower priced GTS (ie the 320mb's at 180ish) and do better than the 640mb's. and is cheaper. its also single slot for those without large cases (like the OP, whose using a BTX Dell case).

its a great buy. and nothing connish about it.
 
Well ill be getting this GFX card set with Crysis soon me thinks.

a lot better performance than my current 320mb (near enough GTX speeds)

Cheap for the performance

Get Crysis with it

Card is already preclocked for less hasstle

For £200 seems like a pretty sweet deal if you ask me...Btw has there been much info on the new GTS? (ive seen a thread about the one thats coming out thats basically the current GTS with afew tweeks.) But has there been any info on the future new one?

IF not, then I would be waiting to see the performance / price ratio of those badboys.
 
Tooks said:
Further apologies, I seem to have diverted the thread!!

Anyway, I do have something to add now!

@ willhub, you're clocks are still pretty good, and are over the EVGA superclocked specs. There's no guarantee that the EVGA will clock further than anybody elses.

My view is changing with the warranty situation though. Before, I used to scoff at the 10 year warranties being touted by BFG and the like, but having had to avail myself of it recently, I'm now a big fan! BFG turned my RMA around inside a week, and when I read the stories of XFX customers being given short shrift, it makes me glad I chose a BFG.

I've got an Asus GT now though, does anybody know what their RMA service is like?
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My view after reading the EVGA cherry picking thread is that you should never buy a vanilla EVGA card.

The reason?

They test them to find ACS3 and Black Pearl cards and the ones that fail get thrown back into the normal card pot. Hence they can't run stably past 650Mhz.

A top end pre-oc card from EVGA is fine cause at least you have the gauranteed stock speed plus it still might go higher. (EVGA top 8800GT runs at 700MHZ)

But that leaves the normal pot of vanilla cards short of good overclocking cards.

For example, all 8800GT's made by Foxconn etc so all the same.

Say 20% can run past 700Mhz.

EVGA cherry pick a large chunk of these to be their pre-oc 700MHz cards or maybe all of them if the pass ratio is low.

That will mean that only a very small percentage or even none of the vanilla EVGA cards will overclock well. Maybe best to avoid the 650Mhz OC ones as well as these might contain a lot of cards which failed at 675Mhz and 700Mhz.

Anybody see a flaw in my logic?
 
The thing is, I am not the kind of person who buys a new gfx card every 4 months.
I am not the kind of person who would buy this card, and then sell it in 3 months to get a new GTS.
I have had my 6800 for like 3 or 4 years now, and it is time to upgrade. I will have this for a good long time too.
10 - 20 FPS is a big difference mate, especially over an already very fast card.
The difference between 25 FPS and 45 FPS is quite considerable....
 
Greebo said:
My view after reading the EVGA cherry picking thread is that you should never buy a vanilla EVGA card.

The reason?

They test them to find ACS3 and Black Pearl cards and the ones that fail get thrown back into the normal card pot. Hence they can't run stably past 650Mhz.

A top end pre-oc card from EVGA is fine cause at least you have the gauranteed stock speed plus it still might go higher. (EVGA top 8800GT runs at 700MHZ)

But that leaves the normal pot of vanilla cards short of good overclocking cards.

For example, all 8800GT's made by Foxconn etc so all the same.

Say 20% can run past 700Mhz.

EVGA cherry pick a large chunk of these to be their pre-oc 700MHz cards or maybe all of them if the pass ratio is low.

That will mean that only a very small percentage or even none of the vanilla EVGA cards will overclock well. Maybe best to avoid the 650Mhz OC ones as well as these might contain a lot of cards which failed at 675Mhz and 700Mhz.

Anybody see a flaw in my logic?
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All sounds pretty logical to me mate! :)
 
Just to say on high detail at 1280 X 1024 with no AA and in DX9 mode the EVGA Superclocked 8800 GT averaged 36.4 FPS in Crysis in a benchmark done in its review by Hardwarecanauks (or however it's spelt)

That's pretty impressive tbh (if it's true)
 
Jihad said:
Nah it isn't really at that resolution, new drivers boosted performance loads for me on my GTX though and probably do for the GT.
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What driver you running now. I'm using the 169.04's but I was thinking about the new WHQL 163.75's?. Any advice?. I'm testing my m8's 8800GTX and every driver I try makes World in Conflict crash or artifact on XP :confused:(all other games work, Timeshift is the latest game I've tried and it's perfect). World in Conflict is fine with my 2900 though so it's nothing to do with my systems stability. I thought there would be no problems with the GTX under XP as well :(.
 
Cartho said:
Just to say on high detail at 1280 X 1024 with no AA and in DX9 mode the EVGA Superclocked 8800 GT averaged 36.4 FPS in Crysis in a benchmark done in its review by Hardwarecanauks (or however it's spelt)

That's pretty impressive tbh (if it's true)
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I'm sure I average that at 1680x1050 lol.
 
J.D said:
What driver you running now. I'm using the 169.04's but I was thinking about the new WHQL 163.75's?. Any advice?. I'm testing my m8's 8800GTX and every driver I try makes World in Conflict crash or artifact on XP :confused:(all other games work, Timeshift is the latest game I've tried and it's perfect). World in Conflict is fine with my 2900 though so it's nothing to do with my systems stability. I thought there would be no problems with the GTX under XP as well :(.
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The new WHQL. :)
 
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