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Gainward GeForce 7800GT 512MB anyone have any experience with this card?

harris1986

harris1986

harris1986

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hi guys whilst bored at work i decided to have a look through what i can't afford and i saw this card : Gainward GeForce 7800GT 512MB,1,4ns DDR3 ,PCI-Express, "BP7800GT-512-GS-GLH-DD" it's specs are 450mhz core and 1300mhz+ memory! for a 7800gt and 512mb? and it only costs £280! that's awesome, so i was just wandering if anyone has this card or knows much about it? as this seems a likely candidate :P 2 of these in sli could be impressive
 
harris1986 said:
hi guys whilst bored at work i decided to have a look through what i can't afford and i saw this card : Gainward GeForce 7800GT 512MB,1,4ns DDR3 ,PCI-Express, "BP7800GT-512-GS-GLH-DD" it's specs are 450mhz core and 1300mhz+ memory! for a 7800gt and 512mb? and it only costs £280! that's awesome, so i was just wandering if anyone has this card or knows much about it? as this seems a likely candidate :P 2 of these in sli could be impressive
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Its available from OcUK and is cheaper at just £270 Inc. VAT ! :)
 
Unusual OCUK aint the cheapest for top end gpus IMO.

Why not get them superclocked EVGA's your competitor with very near same name as your shop is selling EVGA card though standard 7800GS's not superclocked, I know you said they had bad service but not so long ago your RMA was a joke also, I read thats improved as so is the answering the phones, well give EVGA a 2nd (or more) chance liek you have to Gainward, you also didnt deal with Thermaltake as of bad back up service (I know its bad ) as your MD told me on phone long ago, but you know stock TT cases, cpu coolers and psu's due to demand I bet, I dont really rate/like BFG, I had never even seen them outside USA till N40 launched and the lifetime warrenty dont matter to most as they wont keep it that long some other manus, offer 2-5 years also, read lots of problems with BFG's esp fan noise or failures on 6000 series esp.

If push comes to shove and I decide to replace my agp 6800U, For now it would be a EVGA 460/1350 superclocked card from anyone in UK who can sell it at fair price.
 
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wow look in the 6800 section for the Gainward BLISS GeForce 6800 GS "Goes Like Hell" 512MB that has clocks of 485mhz and 1300mhz :D and only £189 now that is a steal!
 
very true but i'd be interested to see how these new revisions with 512mb mem and those simply amazing clocks compare to the 7800's and for the which is the better bang for the buck :P cant wait for a review on this card!
 
Humey said:
Unusual OCUK aint the cheapest for top end gpus IMO.
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Yes we are most of the time. ;)

From time to time competitors may get a dodgy no brand product in and sell them very cheap but the warranty support is not there....

You won't find the following cheaper elsewhere:-

X1900 XT-X from £329 +VAT
X800 GTO 256MB from £89 +VAT with ICEQ Cooling
6800 GS AGP from £119 +VAT
6800 GS PCI-E from £109 +VAT
7800 GS AGP from £179 +VAT

Then if we were to look into the past OcUK did a price drop on 7800 GT's about 6 weeks in advance from anybody else and unlike others we have good stock levels. On whole OcUK is the no.1 in the UK when it comes to VGA and our sale figures show that as for both ATI and NVIDIA OcUK is their no.1 Etailor. :)
 
couldn't agree more gibbo, any word on those sexy 6800 BLiss bad boys yet? they look simply amazing and for the price, would love to see these in SLi, and how they compare to the 7800's
 
BTW, I missed the 512MB part lol, we need a EVGA 460/1350 7800Gs 512MB :D

Gibbo, I wasnt inc no brand makes, I would never use them or even OCUK brands, I used to be stuck on Chaintech, but now would change to asus or evga or even leadtech.
 
Humey said:
BTW, I missed the 512MB part lol, we need a EVGA 460/1350 7800Gs 512MB :D

Gibbo, I wasnt inc no brand makes, I would never use them or even OCUK brands, I used to be stuck on Chaintech, but now would change to asus or evga or even leadtech.
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Just a shame if EVGA to produce such a card they will attempt charging a silly premium, at least the other partners are more realistic with their pricing and Gainward's are very aggressively priced, but that because they want market share.

OcUK brand tends to be Point of View or Inno3D for NVIDIA cards, both are regarded as very reputable brands. :)

Our pricing in general is hard to beat and for the most part people play catch up with OcUK as we always push for price drops/deals then passing them onto the customers. :)
 
Humey said:
There is a old expression, "you get what you paid for" :D
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There is, but sometimes your only a fool if you pay over the odds for something that offers little advantage to none over competing products for much less. As EVGA are no higher in quality to any of the other partners, they just basically clock their cards too the limit and then charge end users a fortune for doing so.....
 
Some manu's would argue the fact they hand pick the "cherry" parts for the overclocked models, just like amd did for barton mobiles or at time xp3200 desktops.

No way to tell if true or now although #i dod know someone who use to work for AMD, but now knows more about MS (vista) than anyone I know on irc server impart of.
 
Yes the jump from 256MB to 512Mb on cards before reviewed showed a 9-17fps jump in games that needs the ram more like BF2 etc.

Now 9 FPS alone could mean the difference between a game being stuttering at all max settings and being playable, ie 30fps bellow = not to good 39 FPS = ok IMO, remember all good reviews tell you that humans only can see approx 60-70 FPS.
 
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