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BFG OC2 or EVGA SC (8800 GT)

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So, regardless of stock issues etc, which is the better out of the 2, seeing as the spec's are listed wrong for the EVGA card...

Any reason why the BFG is more expensive?

I'm thinking of changing my order to the BFG from the EVGA you see :)
 
Blokey57 said:
So, regardless of stock issues etc, which is the better out of the 2, seeing as the spec's are listed wrong for the EVGA card...

Any reason why the BFG is more expensive?
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BFG OC2 is simply a faster card, it's GPU is clocked at 675 (EVGA SC at 650)

memory and shaders also clocked higher on the OC2 ...

I gave up waiting for the EVGA SC and ordered a BFG OC2 today as soon as they came into stock ..

;)
 
Blokey57 said:
Yeah, my order has been delayed by about 3 weeks now, is EVGA reknowned for better quality nVidia cards then?
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Well since the 8000 series, the cards are all made by 1 contractor, so its all to do with Bios etc, but you can read the review I put up about EVGA and CherryPicking.

EVGA have the joint fastest 8800GT with Asus, both are 700/1750/2000 out the box (EVGA 8800GT SSC) and a soon to be ASC3 version.
 
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helmutcheese said:
Well since the 8000 series, the cards are all made by 1 contractor, so its all to do with Bios etc, but you can read the review I put up about EVGA and CherryPicking.

EVGA have the joint fastest 8800GT with Asus, both are 700/1750/2000 out the box (EVGA 8800GT SSC) and a soon to be ASC3 version.
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And people with the SCC are reporting 760/1800+/2100+ with their cards so they really are the best cherry picked fastest overclocked cards.

Of course if you are really, really lucky and cause the same manufacturer makes all cards you could buy a vanilla GT and it might clock to the same. Only might though and maybe 1 in a hundred

All depends if you can wait. I cancelled my 3 week old pre-order for the Zotac AMP (700/2000) and bought a BFG OC but it's an overclocking dog and won't come close to the Asus, Zotac or EVGA pre-oc cards.

There are more BFG OC around but I think they are just boxing up standard GT's and not even testing cause everybody's GT's are hitting BFG OC speeds. Not sure whether the BFG OC2 are the same since all GT's probably clock to those speeds as well. The EVGA SC are probably cards witch failed to pass 675 and 700 for the high end EVGA cards so you won't get anymore out of them either.

Personally buy a unclocked GT from a manufacturer who doesn't sell oc'd cards (gaurantees pot luck on how high they clock) or buy an Asus 700 or Zotac 700 now or wait until December/January to get an EVGA SCC

Also in December there will be GT's with different coolers including double slots and different memory chips to clock higher.

All rests on how soon you want a card ultimately
 
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Correct m8, OC'ing is luck of the draw, but your going to get the speed listed at least as EVGA test them to get that Model Name, but thats not to say another vendors normal card could be a good sample and get more than a EVGA SSC.

But going by input here some have BFG cards that clock like a sick dog.
 
Blokey57 said:
Two posters saying opposing cards, hmmm, which one
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not at all,

the SSC is a faster card, but this discussion relates to the SC version and not the SSC which is clocked higher again and costs even more.

the BFG OC2 is a faster card than the EVGA SC (not the EVGA SSC)

don't get confused between the two

;)
 
The info here is wrong.

Reviewed by: Martin

The shader clock speed is listed as 1500mhz, the actual default speed for this card is 1625mhz.

Thats for the EVGA SC.
 
helmutcheese said:
The info here is wrong.

Reviewed by: Martin

The shader clock speed is listed as 1500mhz, the actual default speed for this card is 1625mhz.

Thats for the EVGA SC.
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yes, we are aware that the details on OCUK are incorrect,

however we are using the official figures from EVGA
 
How am I to know "WE" know this ? :p

I just hope your BFG cards clock better than the 2 other peeps in here.

Hope Gibbo fixes that typo/error then cause it could cost them sales as card looks slower than it is.
 
maxtoon said:
not at all,

the SSC is a faster card, but this discussion relates to the SC version and not the SSC which is clocked higher again and costs even more.

the BFG OC2 is a faster card than the EVGA SC (not the EVGA SSC)

don't get confused between the two

;)
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Yeah but I was saying a EVGA SC is going to be a card which failed to pass as a SCC at 700/2000 or a KO at 675/1950 so hard to recommend a card which is gauranteed to be a dog.

Secondly all 8800GT's clock to BFG OC and OC2 speeds so they can just bundle them up and sell them at a premium without a game (at least EVGA give you Quake Wars) so I would buy neither card.

Either buy an Asus or Zotac guaranteed to 700/2000 or buy a 600 stock from somebody who doesn't sell higher pre-oclocked cards cause your chance of getting a good card is improved. No other choice in it as far as I am concerned.

Also if you buy a cheap stock one, you will have £14 spare to buy a S1 cooler and will benefit from noise reduction and a higher overclock than the pre-oc cards anyway.

I should have done that buy hindsight is easy.
 
I'm not planning on overclocking any further than what the manufacturers have done anyway, so based on that, does it matter if the OC2 clocks "like a dog" as im not gonna be trying to get anything more out of it anyway.
 
Greebo, that could be true to a certain degree, but if they need a batch of SC's or KO's they will use the Cores they have even if better yeilds same as many CPU's like AMD XP2800's were really XP3200's (32bit bartons, you simply lowered Multi and upped FSB to get there pre week 39 as unlocked), some were also failed XP3200's and you would need more than the default 1.65v to run as a XP3200.

Again its all luck.
 
Greebo said:
Secondly all 8800GT's clock to BFG OC and OC2 speeds so they can just bundle them up and sell them at a premium without a game (at least EVGA give you Quake Wars) so I would buy neither card.
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not true,

all 8800GT's do not clock to OC/OC2 speeds, there is simply no guarantee at all

however, if you buy pre oc cards it will be guaranteed to operate efficiently at that speed and you could effectively oc even further.

a stock GT might fail at a few MHz over stock speed, its a risk u take when u buy one.
 
Blokey57 said:
I'm not planning on overclocking any further than what the manufacturers have done anyway, so based on that, does it matter if the OC2 clocks "like a dog" as im not gonna be trying to get anything more out of it anyway.
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exactly !!!

it certainly doesn't matter as its already done for you, and you get a lifetime warranty to boot :D

;)
 
Blokey57 said:
So, based on what i said, EVGA, or BFG?

Unless i missed the answer in all the posts
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lol ...

BFG OC2 m8, its available now (more stock wednesday) get your pre-order in and you'll get one delivered by thursday.

don't make the mistake I did by waiting for the EVGA SC, ETA dates are slipping all the time.

BFG are a quality brand and the OC2 is a faster card which you won't need to overclock further.

;)
 
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