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Which 7800GT??
- Thread starter night8jim
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oh thx for the quick reply, i didn't think it would be this much trouble to order a card lol.
i am in the uk tho, i have 160 uk pounds to spend max.
I was looking at the XFX 7800GT extreme edition but cannot find it in stock now.
Is the ATI card better once overclocked?
cheers for the help.
i am in the uk tho, i have 160 uk pounds to spend max.
I was looking at the XFX 7800GT extreme edition but cannot find it in stock now.
Is the ATI card better once overclocked?
cheers for the help.
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x1800XL will have a voltage controll through drivers which will allow you for higher OC, provided that you have a good cooling solution so it's not guaranteed that you will get good clocks of start using stock HS.
As for buying extreme edition cards take my advice and stay away from them since they are nothing more then scams that companies use to squeeze more $$$ out of you. All they do is edit the cards BIOS and flash with slightly higher clocks which you can get yourself on most any card in same class and save $$$. This just doesn't go out for XFX but for other usual suspects as well like BFG.
If I were you I'd get eVGA's or the cheapest GT that you can find, but the reason I'm recommending eVGA is because they have one of the best costumers supports and their cards are usually always the best in class. Also if you can find a cheaper x1800XL consider that as well as both of these cards are great and will give you simalr performance but GT is slightly better.
As for buying extreme edition cards take my advice and stay away from them since they are nothing more then scams that companies use to squeeze more $$$ out of you. All they do is edit the cards BIOS and flash with slightly higher clocks which you can get yourself on most any card in same class and save $$$. This just doesn't go out for XFX but for other usual suspects as well like BFG.
If I were you I'd get eVGA's or the cheapest GT that you can find, but the reason I'm recommending eVGA is because they have one of the best costumers supports and their cards are usually always the best in class. Also if you can find a cheaper x1800XL consider that as well as both of these cards are great and will give you simalr performance but GT is slightly better.
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i found this card;
XFX GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) & Call of Duty 2 Bundle - Retail (PVT70G-UDF7) (GX-053-XF)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7800__Series.html
and it aint a bad price really, wat you think or should i just get the cheaper BFG version?
XFX GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) & Call of Duty 2 Bundle - Retail (PVT70G-UDF7) (GX-053-XF)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7800__Series.html
and it aint a bad price really, wat you think or should i just get the cheaper BFG version?
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If it comes with free copy of COD2 then grab that.
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They are same exact cards!
Like I said:
Like I said:
ME said:
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They have it at Egg, but you are from UK 
Try searching over at Pricewatch.com
Try searching over at Pricewatch.com
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No need to buy a "extreme" edition of a card, they are only pre-OCed. You can simply OC it yourself and save lots of money. You can't go wrong with eVGA or BFG brands, both are all as high quality as XFX are.
I have two questions do the manufactures check the chips before they use them for overclocking or test the cards for stability.RedDragonXXX said:
Are there people that don't get what the factory gets for overclocking because i have seen people in this form having trouble with stock OC BfG
I just purchased 6200 OC agp and i cant get it past 375 core
that is how my luck has Been for the past five years with all PC components
and I'm tried of having to return products that don't overclock well.
I'm going to return this card probably
Here is the link detail
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=429757
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wingman99 said:
They know that these VPU's can scale more then what Nvidia rates them at depending on ambient temp and all they do is bump it up by few more MHz to attract buyers. You can do this exact same thing if you were to buy less expensive card that runs on stock clocks used on reference cards.
BFG GTX's are prime examples why you shouldn't buy one because they didn't change the stock ALU HS that comes on reference cards which causes them to put out some serious heat (I seen people get 80C+ on these cards).
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night8jim said:i moved to ATI now got a X1800XL
Lets see wat i can achive with this!
Thata boy... Go ATI hehehe
Also im amazed to what some people pull off with there high OC's on these cards with just stock coolers. Even some higher then my clocks and I run relativley cool compared to them.
