XFX 8800GS cards in stock at Newegg

[wolf]

GT > GS lol, dunno about the ram, but mines sensitive to anything over 1950.... 2200 would have been nice to see, but eh, the card rocks anyway.

 

[isox]

I overclocked my XFX 8800GS i bought off newegg for 149.99
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/4ch3a/
the potential is amazing!

 

[hat]

I would just clock the cheap model up to the expensive model. The expensive model is already at the driver locked limit, what fun is that?

 

[Titus]

I would just clock the cheap model up to the expensive model. The expensive model is already at the driver locked limit, what fun is that?

What's this driver locked limit ???
I've seen this comment in several posts but no limit with mine, physical components ones except.

I've not use the driver CD supplyed with card. I've downloaded 169.32 ones on web.

 

[wolf]

yeah i aint never seen a driver lock on clock speeds before... considering the cards probably wont clock much past 750mhz anyway....

 

[Titus]

We have to keep in mind that 8800 GS are made around deficients G92 chips. It may explain the great o/c potential differents betwen same reference chips.

 

[wolf]

huh? can you rephrase that? do you mean that the deficient chips are better overclockers?

just curious ....

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

also dont forget that certain items on the core are deactiveated/absent/non-functional ... thereby giving out less heat therefore giving a better o/c

 

[Titus]

Sorry for my bad english expression

I wanted to say that the 8800 GS is built around G92 chips which didn't pass 8800 GT quality tests.
Rather put them in garbage, NVidia use them in slower cards.
The problem can be not stability @ 8800GT core frequency, shaders failures etc ...

That's why all the 8800 GS chips don't have the same O/C potential.
So it's not surprizing seeing 8800 GS cores @ 740MHz and others @ 680.
Idem for shader's frequencies ...
For mem values, may be some cards are built with defficients chips which run stable @ 8800GS stock species but not @ their mem standard species. For example, 1.2ns mem chips ( 800 Mhz standard chips ) running stable @ 750 MHz but not @ 800. A medium to make profitable chips production.

I hope it's better said like this

 

[Titus]

also dont forget that certain items on the core are deactiveated/absent/non-functional ... thereby giving out less heat therefore giving a better o/c

I saw that shader's freqency doen't influence heat results ... true or false.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

I saw that shader's freqency doen't influence heat results ... true or false.

i havent been that attentive

 

[Titus]

i havent been that attentive

I've found this : " On pourra rajouter que l'augmentation de la fréquence des shaders n'influe en rien sur la température de votre matériel, nous n'en avons pas parlé dans cet article, mais nous avons pu le remarquer durant les tests.
The source

Sorry for the french link

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

care to translate titus?

 

[Titus]

I've found this : " On pourra rajouter que l'augmentation de la fréquence des shaders n'influe en rien sur la température de votre matériel, nous n'en avons pas parlé dans cet article, mais nous avons pu le remarquer durant les tests.
The source

That's mean : " we can add that shaders frequency increasing has not influence on your equipement temperature, we didn't said about this in this article, but we noticed this during tests "

 

[wolf]

to be honest i dont think i noticed any temp increase on my 8600GT going from ~1300 shaders to 1836 , but the temp did go up when moving from 680 core to 742 core.

and likewise on my old XT edition 8600GT's from 600 core to 700 core, with no change in temp from ~1200 shader to 1836.

all my 8 series cards run 1836 shaders now....must be a sweet spot for me