OCUK 8800GTX - how overclockable is it

[craptakular]

lo,

Its G card uptime time! Just wondered how overclockable is the OcUK 8800GTX on stock cooler?

Will the OCUK 8800GTX supass the EVGA SSC 8800GT @ 700mhz?

dunno which one to get.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Honestly mate, forget the GTX and go with the GT or wait for the new GTS due out on the eleventh of this month, the GT only falls short of the GTX at silly resolutions and when tons of AA is applied, suicidal going with a GTX at this time as GT is so close to the GTX in performance.

 

[mike gunnz]

If you can get a used GTX very cheap I reckon they are still great cards as long as like RavenXXX2 says you are gaming at high res with all the eye candy turned on. a lot of people are falling over themselves to get rid of their GTXs which makes it a buyers market at the moment.

Otherwise GT or GTS all the way. I chose the Evga SSC 8800GT.

 

[ebilcake]

Will probably overclock like any other GTX, expect 650/2000, more your lucky, less if your unlucky.

a lot of people are falling over themselves to get rid of their GTXs which makes it a buyers market at the moment..

No there not, if that was the case you would see pages and pages of them on auction sites but strangely enough that isn’t the case, far from it in reality as am struggling to find any.

The kind of user that bought a GTX/Ultra is not the kind of user that will downgrade for small change or swap for marginal increases in performance.

 

[craptakular]

I think what I mean is, is the 8800GTX @ 575mhz "£70 better" than an 8800GT @ 700mhz clock.

Is it worth waiting for the 8800GTS v2 to come out to see if that outperfoms the 8800GTX. Does anyone know how much these will be roughly? is £220-£270 a good guess?

Is it sensible to think the new GTS wont outperform the GTX? so £270 on a GTX isnt wasting my money?

I game at 1680 x 1050 if that helps

 

[mike gunnz]

Will probably overclock like any other GTX, expect 650/2000, more your lucky, less if your unlucky.



No there not, if that was the case you would see pages and pages of them on auction sites but strangely enough that isn’t the case, far from it in reality as am struggling to find any.

The kind of user that bought a GTX/Ultra is not the kind of user that will downgrade for small change or swap for marginal increases in performance.

You are being needlessly pedantic. For the last 2 weeks there have been a lot of GTXs for sale on a certain site. I say this because I thought about buying one from one of the 'panic sellers.' There may be less at this very moment but there has been an overall rise in the no. of people selling GTXs 'due to upgrading.' - Ive been tracking them myself because as I said I thought seriously about getting one.

There are regular posters on here who have 'downgraded' from a GTX to a GT simply because they dont see the marginal loss in performance as a downgrade and they have also wanted to limit their potential losses on their GTX as they (rightly) anticipated a glut of GTXs going on sale.

 

[mike gunnz]

I think what I mean is, is the 8800GTX @ 575mhz "£70 better" than an 8800GT @ 700mhz clock.

Is it worth waiting for the 8800GTS v2 to come out to see if that outperfoms the 8800GTX. Does anyone know how much these will be roughly? is £220-£270 a good guess?

Is it sensible to think the new GTS wont outperform the GTX? so £270 on a GTX isnt wasting my money?

I game at 1680 x 1050 if that helps

£270 to game at 1680 x 1050 in the current market is madness.

Smartest thing would be to wait and see what the GTS can do and at what price.

If you must have a brand new card right now get an 8800GT.

And imo the GTX isnt £70 better. It may or may not outperform the GTS but it certainly wont do by £70 worth, if that makes sense.

 

[ebilcake]

You are being needlessly pedantic. For the last 2 weeks there have been a lot of GTXs for sale on a certain site. I say this because I thought about buying one from one of the 'panic sellers.' There may be less at this very moment but there has been an overall rise in the no. of people selling GTXs 'due to upgrading.' - Ive been tracking them myself because as I said I thought seriously about getting one.

There are regular posters on here who have 'downgraded' from a GTX to a GT simply because they dont see the marginal loss in performance as a downgrade and they have also wanted to limit their potential losses on their GTX as they (rightly) anticipated a glut of GTXs going on sale.

Well there strange people, it used to be about performance but for some reason people hide behind "financial" excuses when they really just want is to play with the latest hardware , now a true enthusiast who really cares about performance will never swap for a slower card, also lets not get into a stupid debate over whether it’s downgrade or not because everybody knows the 8800GTX is faster, well except maybe 8800GT owners who like to think there on par.

As for that certain site, i've been keeping an eye on it myself and there have been very few used 8800GTX's for sale over the last month, in fact right now there is only one.

 

[mike gunnz]

You talk complete rot - no other word for it.

By what rationale are they strange?? Just because they happen to disagree with your dim-witted vision?

There are many different types of enthusiast. Not just your somewhat blinkered perception of what a 'true enthusiast' should be. Some, like you have said are into pure performance at any cost, others want bang for buck, others will value a high end gpu over a cpu, or vice versa. And so on, the combinations are almost infinite. You have no more idea of what a 'true enthusiast' is than the rest of us.

You say there is only 1 GTX up for auction right now? Only 1? Now think about what you've just said/typed. Are you seriously telling me that there is only 1 GTX up for auction on that entire site? Does that sound even remotely feasible?

Right now there are at least 11 GTXs up for auction, you clearly dont know how to conduct a search. Im sure by changing my search parameters I could find a lot more.

Once again you talk rot.

 

[pegasus1]

The GTX isnt any slower now that the GT is out, mine plays games at 1920x1200 just as fast now as it did prior to the GT launch.
Personally i choose to replace the whole system in one go so that i can balance performance.
I wwent from a A64/7800GTX to a E6300/8800GTX with the last rig being handed down to my son who handed his down to my daughter.
My next purchase around March ish next year will be (speculates) 45mn quad/9800GTX.

 

[helmutcheese]

lo,

Its G card uptime time! Just wondered how overclockable is the OcUK 8800GTX on stock cooler?

Will the OCUK 8800GTX supass the EVGA SSC 8800GT @ 700mhz?

dunno which one to get.

I would not buy a GTX today even with price drops (over 1 year old now).

If you mean performance, sure the GTX should still have the lead but you wont be getting 700mhz core on the GTX out the box stock even if it was a Rev 3 Core. (if thats what you meant).

 

[ebilcake]

I would not buy a GTX today even with price drops (over 1 year old now).

If you mean performance, sure the GTX should still have the lead but you wont be getting 700mhz core on the GTX out the box stock even if it was a Rev 3 Core. (if thats what you meant).

Doesnt need to reach or pass 700MHz to match it, with 128SP a small overclock of 648-675 is more then enough to beat an overclocked 8800GT

Right now there are at least 11 GTXs up for auction, you clearly dont know how to conduct a search. Im sure by changing my search parameters I could find a lot more.
.

Yeah, and most of them are new, not used, not my fault noobs put items in the wrong categorys.

 

[willhub]

Well there strange people, it used to be about performance but for some reason people hide behind "financial" excuses when they really just want is to play with the latest hardware , now a true enthusiast who really cares about performance will never swap for a slower card, also lets not get into a stupid debate over whether it’s downgrade or not because everybody knows the 8800GTX is faster, well except maybe 8800GT owners who like to think there on par.

As for that certain site, i've been keeping an eye on it myself and there have been very few used 8800GTX's for sale over the last month, in fact right now there is only one.

If someone games at 1680x1050, then there is no point in getting a GTX, 4fps faster in crysis is hardly worth £70, the only reason to choose a GTX over a GT is when you are gaming at a res higher than 1680x1050, and I'm not saying this because I have an 8800GT or anything like that, its just what I see in benchmarks, most of the benchmarks, if not all suggest that the GTX is not worth an extra £70 over a GT at 1680x1050 as the frame rate increase is minimal and really you're not going to lag in anything at 1680x1050 apart form crysis, in Windows XP at 1680x1060, shadows medium, then I use a cfg which effectivly give you very high quality of better for the performance of high quality, and its smooth enough all over right up untill the big ship deck, it does get choppy abit in the snow areas, but a GTX does too.

Now if you can get GTX's right now for £200, then I would deffenitly go with a GTX over a GT, as long as the 8800GTS was not coming out anytime soon, the best option is to wait for the GTS, not long now, its going to be cheaper than the GTX, push GTX resale value down even more, and its possible it could outperform the GTX, but we need to see some propor reviews untill we can say for sure.

 

[ebilcake]

If someone games at 1680x1050, then there is no point in getting a GTX, 4fps faster in crysis is hardly worth £70, the only reason to choose a GTX over a GT is when you are gaming at a res higher than 1680x1050, and I'm not saying this because I have an 8800GT or anything like that, its just what I see in benchmarks, most of the benchmarks, if not all suggest that the GTX is not worth an extra £70 over a GT at 1680x1050 as the frame rate increase is minimal and really you're not going to lag in anything at 1680x1050 apart form crysis, in Windows XP at 1680x1060, shadows medium, then I use a cfg which effectivly give you very high quality of better for the performance of high quality, and its smooth enough all over right up untill the big ship deck, it does get choppy abit in the snow areas, but a GTX does too.

I never said anyone should buy a 8800GTX now, at least not for full price, if there cheap then i'd take a 8800GTX over a 8800GT for an extra £20-50 anyday, for £70 extra? maybe, depends on your situation really.

 

[Rackerz]

If somebody offered me a GTX for around £230 I wouldn't say no, I would never buy one for £300, let alone £350+

 

[mike gunnz]

£170 would be my personal max now for a GTX.

 

[mike gunnz]

Yeah, and most of them are new, not used, not my fault noobs put items in the wrong categorys.

You still insist on writing garbage

 

[leon4112]

You still insist on writing garbage

well since hes right and at this moment there are

41 items found for: 8800 gtx in Desktop PC Components

thats including new so a mass of people selling up for a cheaper slower card isn't right is it

and since were doing this there are
56 items found for: 8800gt in Desktop PC Components

and most are advertising

FASTER THAN 8800GTS 640MB - SUPPORTS VISTA & DIRECTX 10

does it say faster than gtx no it doesn't and thats the facts cos if it did it would be lieing simple as

again as im pointing out im not banging the 8800gt or anything like that ive got 2 at work but the fact of the matter is no one i know in the biss or as a hobby as got rid of there gtx or ultra for a gt just to save 30-50 quid big deal that money is nothing

and you all can't say oh i saved a few quid i mean you really have to be sad to think spending 200 on a gt then 200 on a cpu 120 on a good mb and maybe 80-150 on ram then think oh i know i can save 50 quid on a gfx card lmao i think its sadder to think you spend that much then saving 50 quid becomes a big deal!!

its not like your gonna do anything with that 50 quid as most of you seem to be on here banging on about oh my card cost less that 70 that ures and its NEARLY as fast after a year the gtx has been out !!!

 

[ebilcake]

You still insist on writing garbage

Your the only one posting garbage with that crap about GTX users falling over themselves to get rid of their GTXs.

 

[bfar]

If someone games at 1680x1050, then there is no point in getting a GTX, 4fps faster in crysis is hardly worth £70, the only reason to choose a GTX over a GT is when you are gaming at a res higher than 1680x1050, and I'm not saying this because I have an 8800GT or anything like that, its just what I see in benchmarks, most of the benchmarks, if not all suggest that the GTX is not worth an extra £70 over a GT at 1680x1050 as the frame rate increase is minimal and really you're not going to lag in anything at 1680x1050 apart form crysis, in Windows XP at 1680x1060, shadows medium, then I use a cfg which effectivly give you very high quality of better for the performance of high quality, and its smooth enough all over right up untill the big ship deck, it does get choppy abit in the snow areas, but a GTX does too.

Now if you can get GTX's right now for £200, then I would deffenitly go with a GTX over a GT, as long as the 8800GTS was not coming out anytime soon, the best option is to wait for the GTS, not long now, its going to be cheaper than the GTX, push GTX resale value down even more, and its possible it could outperform the GTX, but we need to see some propor reviews untill we can say for sure.

I wouldn't totally agree with you there. I have a GTX since the day of release and I generally game at 1280 on my 19' TFT, having never got around to actually buying the new monitor I swore I would!

Occasionally I break out the old CRT and go at 1600*1200. (thats slightly more than 1650*1050) Despite what the benchies say, there's a noticable framerate difference in real world playing. At 1280 everthings a touch more, well, slick.

I've tried 1920 on the CRT - for me, it's still a borderline no-no on a lot of games, even with a GTX. Some people would be happy, it's a matter of personal opinion (which I realise doesn't really count for much around here ) and how much AA/AF you like to use.

When it comes down to $/framerate, I'd totally agree with you, a GT would be a better buy, but for pure ease of gaming the GTX is still a cracker on any display, and a very viable enthusiast purchase if you can afford it.

We'll see about the new GTS when it arrives, but at this point I'm looking ahead to the next-gen

I see no reason to downgrade to a GT to raise cash, all the 8800's will nose-dive in value once the next gen is on the shelf.