8800GT Stock?

[LoadsaMoney]

so the production line stretches out of the factory and passes through California and goes all the way to China does it, jesus no wonder theres a stock shortage, they aint dropped off the bloody line yet, its ******* miles long, the ***** are still on it.

Gibbo any idea where me card is, aye, its just passing through Egypt on the line, while to go before it drops yet.

Just buy summit like the Gainward, grab a magazine and cut out a BFG or EVGA logo out of it, then sellotape it on yer card making sure you cover the Gainward logo, there you go, your guaranteed to clock it to whatever speeds you like.

 

[Kelt]

...Just buy summit like the Gainward, grab a magazine and cut out a BFG or EVGA logo out of it, then sellotape it on yer card making sure you cover the Gainward logo, there you go, your guaranteed to clock it to whatever speeds you like.

My sarcasm detector just went off the scale!!

 

[woozy2k7]

gibbo wont reply

he never does to me

and people who have theirs should keep quiet!

 

[AgedIdiot]

Anyone any idea how many nvidia have actually sold of this card ?
Demand seems massive and ,as yet, no slacking of.
Can see it being quite some time before any price reductions are applied.
Then again what do I know

 

[Greebo]

Card number 1x comes off the line has EVGA slapped on it and gets clocked to whatever, card number 2x rolls off 2 seconds behind it and has say MSI slapped onto it, but gets left at stock speeds, now whos to say that its not guaranteed to clock to the speeds of the EVGA card that came off 2 seconds before it, what if card number 1x had MSI slapped onto it, and card number 2 had an EVGA sticker slapped onto it instead, now hows that card number 2 now guaranteed to be clocked to whatever because its now got EVGA slapped onto it instead.

Your all just to picky, whinging for weeks and weeks about having to wait for 20 years for a card, when the same bloody cards are sitting there in stock day in day out just with different names on.

Well my BFG OC card artifacts all over and hangs my system at 2000 on the memory so if you buy a card rated at that speed at least it will work at that speed.

 

[Vasq]

I have an EVGA 8800 GT Superclocked on pre-order and I was told on the phone they would have them in by the end of this week - but they don't even have an ETA on their website.

I was thinking of trying to change my order to the Zotac AMP card which looks to be quite a bit faster for basically the same price. It has an ETA of the 26th - is that likely to be sooner than the EVGA? I've never heard of this company though so I'm a bit dubious.

Also, can anyone tell me what is coming out in the next 90 days or so in terms of graphics cards? EVGA have a 'step up' program but if there's nothing coming out then it's not much use to me.

Also, will it be possible for me to overclock the EVGA Superclocked to the same sort of speeds as the Zotac?

 

[maxtoon]

Also, can anyone tell me what is coming out in the next 90 days or so in terms of graphics cards? EVGA have a 'step up' program but if there's nothing coming out then it's not much use to me.

yup, G92.8800GTS. this will be a GTX/ULTRA beating card based on the G92 die rather than the old G80, It will be officially released on Dec 3rd and should be available to purchase within a few weeks of this date.

This is one of the reasons why I have also pre-ordered an EVGA GT SC, so I can take advantage of the step up program if the GTS is all that's promised. Best of both worlds.

time will tell

 

[willhub]

yup, G92.8800GTS. this will be a GTX/ULTRA beating card based on the G92 die rather than the old G80, It will be officially released on Dec 3rd and should be available to purchase within a few weeks of this date.

This is one of the reasons why I have also pre-ordered an EVGA GT SC, so I can take advantage of the step up program if the GTS is all that's promised. Best of both worlds.

time will tell

Thats a bad idea, Step-Up program you got to post your GPU to like germany or somewere, you gotta be waiting ages too, and you dont go by the prices in the shops, you go by EVGA's price, so you could be paying quite abit extra, so the Step-Up Program is nothing more than a con and you might aswell of waited and got a GTS or get a GT, sell it later on and get a GTS, I'm sure some people will have something good to say about the Step-Up Program, I am just going by what other people have said so dont have first hand experience with the Step-Up Program but I would not risk trying it TBH.

 

[dbmzk1]

Hi there

Under the new deal, OcUK does the warranty, not XFX. So the customers deals with OcUK, we swap the card out in less than 7 days, but 48hr turn around will be the target.

Erm, in the first year OcUK does the warranty on everything they sell, so what is the difference?

 

[woozy2k7]

You're right there.



You can. I had pre-ordered the EVGA SC on the 8th November. Changed it a couple of days later to the BFG OC2. According to Gibbo's post here posted today:



That means I am before the number 307 since I placed my order well before today. So you can call them, ask them whether all preorders have been allocated for the OC2 and if not, place your order.


Forget the zotacs now. All the pre-orders have been allocated. Neither of us got one.

Phone them. At least you might.... I couldn't




You're right but I would insist with paypal and ebay to get justice done. After all you had no fault if the buyer's account was hacked. Get a lawyer's advice and if he says you are right, proceed. They might just be playing ignorant so that you don't pursue the case further and give them trouble...



Well, after all you've been through who wouldn't wish that you get some cheering up?

Last note - no pressure, if you've really got your heart set on an EVGA, wait for it and at the end you'd be happy...

hmm i was looking at getting a lawyer earlier in the year as i lost £2500 on a computer course (MSCA MCCA etc) but after half a year the company went into liquiation and vanished (they were called connectivitytraining) but never knew how to go about getting help.

yeah been a stressfull year

 

[maxtoon]

Thats a bad idea, Step-Up program you got to post your GPU to like germany or somewere, you gotta be waiting ages too, and you dont go by the prices in the shops, you go by EVGA's price, so you could be paying quite abit extra, so the Step-Up Program is nothing more than a con and you might aswell of waited and got a GTS or get a GT, sell it later on and get a GTS, I'm sure some people will have something good to say about the Step-Up Program, I am just going by what other people have said so dont have first hand experience with the Step-Up Program but I would not risk trying it TBH.

yes, but you will only be paying the difference between the two official EVGA prices,so the GT from 'EVGA DIRECT' will already be considerably more than you actually payed at ocuk etc for the same GT, so the cost to the GTS may be around £50 extra. depending on the final release prices.

 

[Kelt]

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I was thinking of trying to change my order to the Zotac AMP card which looks to be quite a bit faster for basically the same price. It has an ETA of the 26th - is that likely to be sooner than the EVGA? I've never heard of this company though so I'm a bit dubious....

They're a subsidiary of the PC Partner group who also happen to own Sapphire. From what I can gather, its basically ATI only Sapphire wanting a piece of the Nvidia pie, so no worries there.

Did extensive googling before buying the Zotac, haven't seen a bad word against them yet.

 

[Greebo]

Thats a bad idea, Step-Up program you got to post your GPU to like germany or somewere, you gotta be waiting ages too, and you dont go by the prices in the shops, you go by EVGA's price, so you could be paying quite abit extra, so the Step-Up Program is nothing more than a con and you might aswell of waited and got a GTS or get a GT, sell it later on and get a GTS, I'm sure some people will have something good to say about the Step-Up Program, I am just going by what other people have said so dont have first hand experience with the Step-Up Program but I would not risk trying it TBH.

Poiny is you pay the differnence between what you paid and the the rrp of the new card.

Currently 8800GT are overpriced and ocuk are charging £30 more than EVGA list price and the crysis bundle price counts and you get to keep crysis if you step up as well.

Therefore the step up is a good idea atm especially if the new GTS cards carry a premium to begin with like the GT's did.

You might end up paying a pitance to step up.

And your theory falls down if GT's drop to where they should be. Selling your EVGA card might only get you £130 tops whereas you might have £200 towards a step up.

Normally I have always been against the EVGA step up program except recently. Anybody who bought a EVGA 8800GTS 320Mb in the last 90 days can swap free of charge to a 8800GT or for about a tenner to a OC EVGA 8800GT.

Anybody with a 8800GTS would be glad of that swap now unless they off loaded their GTS before the GT came out

 

[Greebo]

Of course they are guaranteed to overclock just as good, all the cards come off the same production line in the same factory, one after the other, then they just slap BFG/EVGA/Gainward etc... stickers all over em, so what if card number 1x comes of the production line and has a BFG sticker slapped on it, and card number 2x that rolls off 2 seconds behind it has Asus slapped on it, is it really guaranteed to not overclock like the card that fell off 2x seconds before it that had a BFG sticker slapped on it instead of Asus, IS IT BALLS, hope your waiting years for em, your own faults for not buying the same cards that are in stock now with different stickers on em.

Not true. My BFG OC artifacts and crashes if I set the memory to 2000.

It's pot luck. If you buy a pre-oc card rated at 700/2000 at least it will work at that.

 

[Kelt]

Not true. My BFG OC artifacts and crashes if I set the memory to 2000.

....

Have you done the fan thing via Rivatuner?

 

[Greebo]

Have you done the fan thing via Rivatuner?

Not yet but set my fan to 100% to find my max overclock ignoring heat issues,

Not heat issue cause at idle first boot and onlt 40 degrees it artifacts and crashes straight away if you set the memory to 2000.

SO guess I just have a "bad" overcloking card.

 

[Kelt]

Not yet but set my fan to 100% to find my max overclock ignoring heat issues,

Not heat issue cause at idle first boot and onlt 40 degrees it artifacts and crashes straight away if you set the memory to 2000.

SO guess I just have a "bad" overcloking card.

Sorry to hear that. Hope my Zotac does a bit better, but it's a bit of a lottery anyways. Can see why the Amp versions are sought after.

 

[FirebarUK]

how

Phoned them up at about 10 o'clock when I noticed that the EVGA SC I had pre-ordered still had lower clocks, wasn't fussed about Crysis bundled in. So I asked the nice chap on the phone to change me to a Zotec, after everything that was said in this thread in the afternoon, I'm hoping that I got there just in time - it certainly looks like it.

 

[mrk]

Not yet but set my fan to 100% to find my max overclock ignoring heat issues,

Not heat issue cause at idle first boot and onlt 40 degrees it artifacts and crashes straight away if you set the memory to 2000.

SO guess I just have a "bad" overcloking card.

WHat are you using to overclock ?

 

[woozy2k7]

Gibbo

what do you expect to get in today?