>> 7300GT 256mb GDDR3! <<

Raikiri · 12 Jul 2006 at 20:03

pastymuncher said:
Here's a review of a pair of Gigabyte 7300gt's in sli. They overclock pretty well too.

They are only the DDR2 ones though, the DDR3 come at 500mhz core/1400mhz mem stock

sunlitsix · 12 Jul 2006 at 20:51

oweneades said:
Not bad over 9k in 05. Thats more than a stock X1800XT and a stock 7900GT.

They do even better on the real gaming benchmarks as well! I think its on fear where the SLI cards are roughly twice as fast as a single 6800GS. Not too bad for budget cards.

Only 35 points shy of 10k!!!

Futher EDIT:

Reading more into that link above one of their team using a pencil vmod took the core to 820mhz! Scoring 6.3k in 05 and over 14k in 03. Not bad at all!

Please note I have linked the image as the forum/ site has ads to other uk computer stores.

820Mhz on the core!
what voltage was this at? surely no less than 1.6?
could you email me the link please, wouldnt mind reading about this one :cool:

Cyber-Mav · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:06

think voltage was 1.9v

oweneades · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:30

sunlitsix said:
820Mhz on the core!
what voltage was this at? surely no less than 1.6?
could you email me the link please, wouldnt mind reading about this one

Its at 1.9v but with custom cooling.

The link to the forum is off of the link I quoted on page 2. I believe its on the overclocking part of the review.

They couldn't seem to push the memory any futher than 1600 but still seeing as though SLI'd DDR2 models can keep up with a 7600GT SLI'd GDDR3 models with memory running twice as fast should have no trouble beating it.

Cyber-Mav · 12 Jul 2006 at 21:44

very nice clocks.

sunlitsix · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:04

yeah nice overclock, nice performance boost too

but nobody would attempt that on their own 7300GT, 1.9v + those clocks would surely kill the card in a short space of time no matter what cooling was used

oweneades · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:24

sunlitsix said:
yeah nice overclock, nice performance boost too

but nobody would attempt that on their own 7300GT, 1.9v + those clocks would surely kill the card in a short space of time no matter what cooling was used

Possibly.

I believe he was still able to hit something like 750 on the core with only 1.6v which is much more reasonable.

Minstadave · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:31

These look like real bargains, will be watching with interest to see when they show up

Raikiri · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:32

Minstadave said:
These look like real bargains, will be watching with interest to see when they show up

You can buy them already for the 23893489th time!

oweneades · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:32

Minstadave said:
These look like real bargains, will be watching with interest to see when they show up

Exactly what I am thinking. I am sorely tempted about picking a couple up for a bit of SLI fun. (only if the price is right of course)

Minstadave · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:34

Raikiri said:
You can buy them already for the 23893489th time!

Oooops apologies

Raikiri · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:35

Minstadave said:
Oooops apologies

No problem

they are just under £70 for the ddr3 256mb one, 128mb is just over £50 and you can get the passive gigabyte ddr2 ones for 60ish. (sorry about the vague prices, don't wanna make them easy to find...rules is rules)

Arc · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:41

I've just seen some of the DDR3 ones appear for 23 quid more than the DDR2 ones.

Is it worth it to get two DDR3 ones or two DD2 ones considering the 46 quid price difference?

Raikiri · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:44

The cores are 100mhz faster and the mem around twice the speed, imo it is worth it. But of course that is for you to decide.

oweneades · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:46

Arc said:
I've just seen some of the DDR3 ones appear for 23 quid more than the DDR2 ones.

Is it worth it to get two DDR3 ones or two DD2 ones considering the 46 quid price difference?

It appears from the link above that 2 DDR2 models can just about keep up with a single 7600GT only pulling ahead by up to 10% once overclocked.

However the GDDR3 models are running memory nearly twice as fast as the DDR2 models so this does make a big difference.

Arc · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:48

Right, didnt realise the cores were slightly quicker (damn thread skim reading, always a bad idea

). Might get a couple of those then. Quite shocked that two of them in SLi destroy my X800XL, its amazing how things move on so quickly.

Hm, just found a XFX DDR2 7300GT with 512MB of memory onboard. XFX dont list it on their site but its due in soon according to a shop site.

Minstadave · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:54

Arc said:
Right, didnt realise the cores were slightly quicker (damn thread skim reading, always a bad idea ). Might get a couple of those then. Quite shocked that two of them in SLi destroy my X800XL, its amazing how things move on so quickly.

Hm, just found a XFX DDR2 7300GT with 512MB of memory onboard. XFX dont list it on their site but its due in soon according to a shop site.

512Mb is pointless at this end of the market, it just won't be used.

HighlandeR · 12 Jul 2006 at 23:32

Ocuk never bothered to get the DDR3 GTs?

They sound like sell out hot cakes

k3v · 13 Jul 2006 at 12:23

get the zalman equiped ones ocuk! don't miss the boat like you did with the asrock dual mobo.
there must be a lot of sales to Be had by stocking it...

oweneades · 13 Jul 2006 at 13:44

k3v said:
get the zalman equiped ones ocuk! don't miss the boat like you did with the asrock dual mobo.
there must be a lot of sales to Be had by stocking it...

Indeed! I am torn with the option of buying a couple of these for some SLI fun