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*****The Golden Sample Lands - Gainward GTX 580 OC is here!*****

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Hi there


Well guys Gainward have shipped us some of their highly exclusive Golden Samples which come out of the box overclocked. These are extremely limited in quantity:-


Gainward GeForce GTX 580 Golden Sample 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £479.99 inc VAT

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The world's fastest GPU has arrived with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580. Experience blockbuster games like Call of Duty®: Black Ops and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X® 2 in their full glory with everything cranked to the max. Not only does the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 rip through the latest games, it also runs quieter than the previous generation. And as you have come to expect from the GeForce GTX GPU, the GTX 580 packs support for all the premium GTX gaming technologies such as NVIDIA Surround, 3D Vision, PhysX and SLI. With all these features and more, it is easy to see how the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 obliterates the competition.

Features:-
- Core Clock: 805MHz (Fermi GF110)
- 128 TMUs (GTX 480 had 64 TMUs)
- Innovative thermal design: Vapour Chamber (Quieter than previous generation)
- Memory: 1536MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 4200MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 384-Bit
- Processing Cores: 512
- Shader Clock: 1610MHz
- 33% performance better than stock GTX 480
- 46% performance better than stock HD 5870 2GB
- Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.0
- Display Connectors: 2x Dual-Link DVI-I & 1x Mini-HDMI 1.3a (Includes HDMI & VGA Adapters)
- SLI Ready (Upto 3-Way SLI Supported)
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- PhysX Enabled
- CUDA Enabled
- 3D Vision Enabled
- NVIDIA Surround Enabled
- Lower power consumption compared to GTX 480, only 244 watts
- Warranty: 2 Years


Only £479.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
















These cards also have no issues with the overclock, each card has been tested at Gainwards UK office and re-flashed, so no re-call on these, they work perfectly fine. :)
 
Sorry, wouldnt touch gainward with a bargepole after they shafted me over a 1 month old FX4200 which died. Wouldnt answer emails, wouldnt repsond to letters, wouldnt accept delivery of faulty card by courier.

Once you're on my banned list, you don't come off it. Bandits.
 
Sorry, wouldnt touch gainward with a bargepole after they shafted me over a 1 month old FX4200 which died. Wouldnt answer emails, wouldnt repsond to letters, wouldnt accept delivery of faulty card by courier.

Once you're on my banned list, you don't come off it. Bandits.


Could you not send back to the place of purchase?

But still can't argue with your decision, I like their products but will agree their support could be better at times.

If you buy Gainward from us, the 2yr warranty is with us, we then have the fun of dealing with them but they do seem to look after us well.
 
I think at the time the place I bought it from (a big local company) said I had to deal with GW direct - I even checked that I was using the correct email/postal addresses - things may have changed nowadays.

It was definately faulty - sparkles all over the screen and pink vertical lines down the display - classic VRAM failure - and a well known fault on the 4200's IIRC.

Each to his own.
 
Am I correct in thinking Gainward & Palit are one and the same company? :confused:

Yes.

Palit now own Gainward, wheras a few years ago Gainward was run by other people so things have changed now and they are a much larger entity.
 
Yes.

Palit now own Gainward, wheras a few years ago Gainward was run by other people so things have changed now and they are a much larger entity.

Presumably hence the comment about not having to do a recall on these OC cards like the other side did.
 
Don't mean to be a stickler but, who the hell wrote up the product descriptions, its almost entirely wrong.

244W, not an overclocked and potentially overvolted model, even stock ones are VERY variable due to different vid's, meaning some use more, some use less and 244 vs 250W are BS numbers anyway.

128tmu's vs 64 in the 480gtx, seriously, does FUD work here? 480gtx had 60 TMU's, 64 if EACH cluster was enabled, the 580gtx has 64, its a fully enabled GF100 with a respin, its not a fancy different core with double the TMU's.

33/48% better performance are again, BS numbers, not least because every model from stock to the furthest overclock uses the same numbers, the numbers weren't made for this card, so are being used incorrectly/falsely. LIkewise, in no way did a single review indicate it AVERAGED 33% faster than a stock 480gtx, claiming so, without listing the precise title or benchmark it scored that much faster in, is again, false advertising. Saying its 38% better in game x, where it is 38% faster is fine, albeit misleading, claiming its simply 33 or 48% faster is just wrong, its false advertising, the claim means the card would have to be 33% faster in every situation.

Each and every 580GTX is incorrectly specced, its really VERY unprofessional.


http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580

Hmm, to be fair I was going to link to a manufacturer page aswell, but Nvidia's on site, Asus, MSI, Gainward, Gigabyte, none of them list how many TMU's they have, at all, seems very odd to not list a fairly important part of the specs.
 
Yeah, I'm guessing so aswell, but you really have to either claim an average, or say which game/benchmark the score is from, otherwise its overly misleading. The 5970 is like 70% ahead of a 480gtx in Call of Juarez but I rarely if ever see it listed on a website, as 70% faster in general.

The other problem being, if the 772Mhz cards are tested as 33% faster, well its disingenuous to just copy and past the same numbers into an overclocked cards specs, because it will clearly be different, faster, but still different.

The specs alone with those numbers make the £480 card look the same speed as a £420 so its not even in OCUK's interests to use the same number. The specs though, 128TMU's, thats amatuer hour to be honest, its quite literally using "rumoured" specs that are completely wrong, and getting the 480gtx specs wrong is just laughable.
 
What happened with the TMUs? even the AIBs had 128 on their promotional stuff up until launch (which I assume is where its from).
 
Why is the Gainward one more expensive than the others. I know it's overclocked but isn't that still a it pricey?

Not much, the cheapest one in stock is £440 now, and the prices are slowly going up by the day. Availability isn't good, Nvidia doing their usual "look at our launch pricing and how all the reviews will reflect that, and mark the card up and makes it look better vs the competition" then the price going up afterwards making it look distinctly less good but with all the positive reviews out.

A 30Mhz overclock 4.3% btw, that all the other cards are MORE than capable of, for a 6.5(and a bit)% overclock isn't particularly worth it though. With only 8 other 580gtx's in stock though, if they go theres little other choice.
 
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What happened with the TMUs? even the AIBs had 128 on their promotional stuff up until launch (which I assume is where its from).

Leaked stuff? I'm not sure which leaked stuff you are talking about specifically, but it wouldn't surprise me that stuff that wasn't from the official launch was fake slides and the like.
 
Nah official stuff - I'm pretty sure OcUK has just reproduced the info they got from the vendors too rather than made up 128 TMUs themselves. Seems to have been a bit of a cockup somewhere.
 
£160 more than the Gainward GTX480.... er no.

Also the TMU numbers has been wrong on OCUK since launch despite multiple members (myself included) pointing out the mistake. The fact they are ALL still wrong is a bit off tbh.
 
All 580's are currently the same, bar a few BIOS tweaks used to set default clocks and core voltage. Gainward cards are just as good as any other, that is until non-reference designs arrive.

I have owned a few Gainward cards and never had an issue. Apart from aformentioned BIOS tweaks, slapping on a sticker and putting the the card in a box, all of these are created equal and you have exactly the same chances of failure.

..but an overclocked reference card is never worth a £100 premium. Never.
 
Perhaps OcUK can comment on why 580 prices are so high now. Are distributers charging more or are OcUK creaming demand? Sub £400 is the RRP for stock boards.
 
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