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ECS 8800GT has underclocked memory?

I stand corrected about the OC part of the advert, although it was still sold as a 900MHz card.
 
Have you tried taking it back to the shop?

If you explain exactly what the problem is I don't see why they should refuse you a replacement. Also print off screenshots of GPUz and the advert for the card and take them with you as they probably have no idea this stock is not up to scratch - ECS very naughtily do not specify it so it stands to reason the retailer wouldn't know either (if any card is not up to reference specs the manufacturer is legally obliged to make this fact very clear to all concerned, retailer and end consumer alike. What ECS are doing is basically 'lying through omission'.
 
I haven't been in touch or tried to take it back as I wasn't sure if it was just underclocked by mistake or the wrong card.
 
That should be ok. XFX seem to have a good reputation (though I bought an XFX card when they were pretty new on the scene and the fan failed within a couple of months).
For the same price the Leadtek model has a Zalman fan and comes overclocked to 650mhz on the GPU. Now if you used that in SLI with a standard 8800GT that would drop to 600, which shouldn't be a bad thing as it should run a little cooler.

Personally (having been given a refund rather than a replacement) I think I will wait and see how the prices fare as I think new ATI cards are due out soon and that usually heralds a drop in Nvidia's prices. In the end I think I might be better off going for a single GTX 260 or 280, and sell on my current 8800 rather than looking at SLI.
 
I dont mean to sound stupid or anything but does that 200mhz difference really make so much difference in performance?
 
MooMoo444 said:
I dont mean to sound stupid or anything but does that 200mhz difference really make so much difference in performance?
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Probably very little in anything other than 3DMark that's why I've decided to stick to what I have. It's quiet enough also I'm CPU and PSU limited that's why I'm not returning it just incase it won't boot with a different card.
I know it won't take an 8800xtx and that was over a year ago and PSU's don't get better with age.

It still dosn't make it right to miss advertise although I believe it's an honest mistake.
 
MooMoo444 said:
I dont mean to sound stupid or anything but does that 200mhz difference really make so much difference in performance?
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I already have a correctly clocked 8800GT and can say after testing the ECS model on it's own that it does not perform as well. It stands out more in benchmarks, but you can also see in games that it does not fare as well on the same settings that a true 8800gt can (just about) handle.
 
The 8800GT is very sensitive to memory bandwidth - even at stock core upping the memory 200MHz makes quite a difference to performance even in games - so dropping it 200MHz is going to have quite an impact too.
 
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