I am new to the High End Nvidia Cards. I have Questions.

Brutal-Force · May 26, 2009

First Question: My Card is a OC Edition, What does that really mean for me? Is it already overclocked or CAN it be further Overclocked.

It was running stock at like Core Clock\ROP: 590 MHz, Core Clock\Shader: 1296 MHz

I have it running at Core Clock\ROP: 702, Core Clock\Shader: 1548

Core temp is 52, Ambient Temp is 45

Shiggity · May 26, 2009

"OC Editions" are marketing hype that enables them to sell you the same card at an inflated price.

When you can just overclock them yourself for free.

pharoer · May 26, 2009

Brutal-Force said:
First Question: My Card is a OC Edition, What does that really mean for me? Is it already overclocked or CAN it be further Overclocked.

It was running stock at like Core Clock\ROP: 590 MHz, Core Clock\Shader: 1296 MHz

I have it running at Core Clock\ROP: 702, Core Clock\Shader: 1548

Core temp is 52, Ambient Temp is 45

OC Edition means it's moderately factory overclocked. Of course you can overclock it even further if you want.

PS: a 260 is not "high end". Mainstream at most.

Brutal-Force · May 26, 2009

Well coming from a 8400 GS, this to me is High End.

As for Hype and inflated price, I picked this one up by price mistake for 160 dollars w/o rebate.

So basically, Its a card that I can OC which just carries the name OC.

Benefits of additional 24 Cores? http://www.bfgtech.com/bfgegtx260mc896ocxbe.aspx

That is the Card I got. Its 55 nm?

pharoer · May 26, 2009

That is the Card I got. Its 55 nm?

Maybe you should actually read the links you post?

Brutal-Force · May 26, 2009

Sorry, Wrong Link....

http://www.bfgtech.com/bfgegtx260mc896ocbe.aspx

"The BFG GeForce® GTX 260 OC™ MAXCORE 55™ graphics card combines the power of 24 more processing cores (versus the standard GTX 260) on a new 55nm GPU with BFG's out-of-the-box overclocking..."

Am I not to understand that this is better than the standard GTX 260?

Honestly, please don't give me a hard time. I really only know that this card is supposed to be vastly better than the 9800 GTX I was looking at for 119.00 and I got this one for 160 without any rebates to send in.

According to http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

A normal GTX 260 rates #7 in benchmarking. This one is 217 cores a normal one is 192 Cores. http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_260_us.html

but since this OC edition doesn't show up on Passmark, I don't know how much "better it is"

MattNo5ss · May 26, 2009

It's definitely better than the standard GTX 260 because it has 24 more shaders (216 total) and it's 55nm instead of 65nm.

"OC" cards are slightly overclocked so the MSRP can go up, but in your case you got it for no price increase.

Passmark might group all GTX 260s together regardless of Core 192 or 216...I dunno, just a possibility.

Brutal-Force · May 26, 2009

My 3DMarks at Stock GPU Setting 590 Core - 1296 Shader: 15465

14% OC: 630 Core - 1883 Shader: 16587

Anything more and my score starts to drop.

Dapman02 · May 27, 2009

pharoer said:
OC Edition means it's moderately factory overclocked. Of course you can overclock it even further if you want.

PS: a 260 is not "high end". Mainstream at most.

The 260 is considered upper high-end, cards like the GTS series are considered the lower mid-range card.

Brutal-Force · May 27, 2009

Yeah I figured if the lower end version ranks #7 then out of at least 200 video cards it should be called high end.

Rattle · May 27, 2009

pharoer said:
OC Edition means it's moderately factory overclocked. Of course you can overclock it even further if you want.

PS: a 260 is not "high end". Mainstream at most.

not to be picky but, altho it may be priced mainstream it is by no means a mainstream non hi end card, a gtx 285 for almost 2x the money is a joke as you'll never notice a diff, aside from dual gpu cards it owns the 3rd spot with the 4870 1gb on top 5 cards as far as I am concerned. 260 was the first true single card i was happy gaming with at 1920x1200 and thats saying alot as it was much better than the 4870 512 at that res. Much much smoother.

Brutal-Force · May 27, 2009

So your saying I got a good deal?

PhoenixOfChaos · May 27, 2009

Look at some benchmarks.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-4890-review-test/12

for example, the 4890 is getting what, 2 more fps at stock settings? And that is with a mildly over clocked version of the card too, 50mhz above stock.

Compared to say the price of a 4890 at newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102830) [might not be the best deal, but it was a quick google]

at roughly a 40$ price difference, not counting MIR you tell me if its a good deal.

Is it worth 40$ more dollars for a 2 fps?

Or even 20$?

That's 10$/1fps. A terrible ratio, in all honesty especially considering that the performance isn't linear in terms of dollars spent.

The GTX260 216 is a high end card at a low price point, but if you're looking at a card at ~150$ you'd be absolutely stupid to not give it a good lookover.

MARCI · May 27, 2009

you picked a winner.. pretty much hands down price/performance leader. now just get folding on the thing when you're not gaming it

Brutal-Force · May 27, 2009

Well good, some people were making me feel like I had made a mistake.

Badbonji · May 28, 2009

That card currently has the best price/perf on the higher end of the market, so you should be very happy with that card. Prices start to rise very exponentially after the 260 and hd4870. I guess that is a downside to my GTX295, it cost me £420 ~ $650 during first week of release, but we have high VAT in the UK, damn government!

ratbuddy · May 28, 2009

Rattle said:
not to be picky but, altho it may be priced mainstream it is by no means a mainstream non hi end card, a gtx 285 for almost 2x the money is a joke as you'll never notice a diff, aside from dual gpu cards it owns the 3rd spot with the 4870 1gb on top 5 cards as far as I am concerned. 260 was the first true single card i was happy gaming with at 1920x1200 and thats saying alot as it was much better than the 4870 512 at that res. Much much smoother.

Of course, the HD 4890 is also a joke compared to the 4870. There's always a premium to be paid for that last little incremental performance increase.

jason4207 · May 28, 2009

Brutal-Force said:
Well good, some people were making me feel like I had made a mistake.

You made an excellent purchase. Be proud!

:attn:

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