For them is a small deal, in their mind, those little bucks wont effect anything.
And you pay extra bucks for extra performance isn't ?
For me, I will Buy the OC'ed card if the price is not much different on reference card.
*SLI zone is those "western men" forum. All using godly system rig
e.g. Core 2 Extreme QX6700, 8800Ultra SLI, 2x 150GB Raptor and bla bla bla...even PSU cost us Rm1,000.

This post has been edited by 168257061: Aug 11 2007, 07:33 PM

Depend on luck too... Some Pre-OC cards are very stable, minor problem some may encounter overheat, artifact or hanged while gaming.

This post has been edited by zeustronic: Aug 12 2007, 08:57 AM

ok la guys. make it simple.

since you all argue about OCed cards worth it or not, i'd say it's up to you BUT here's the results of 1 of the benches for my review of Galaxy 8600GT OC Edition

The following was done on F.E.A.R at 1152 x something resolution. max details, CPU settings minimum.

86GT 540/700 = 21/38/76
86GT OC 600/800 = 23/43/86
86GT OC being OCed 660/860 = 24/47/94

all in all - it goes back to how much additional you pay for the OCed card and how much you're willing to pay for the speed gain.

it's 1152 x 864

, anyway... buying OCed card, limiting our overclock adventure while getting a normal/plain non-OC card, we could get wider overclocking since it's not pre-overclocked if you guys know what i mean...

Well, for me, those who does not need to fuss of OCing the card further, just go ahead and get an OCed version rather than a plain one. If you are those enthuasist who need to OC even higher, either one will do it for you depending on the price and performance ratio..

off topic....

can it be SLI if different clock speed?

Yes, but the Nvidia driver will set both of your graphic card to be the same as either one that has lower speed.

Let's say first graphic card is on 650MHz core clock while the 2nd one is on 550MHz core clock, once you're on SLi, the Nvidia driver will automatically set the the first graphic card to follow the core clock of the lower clock speed that is the 2nd graphic card.

As tweaking program like RT and ATI Tools can help to overclock an OEM cards to (or probably higher) pre-oc cards with stability, there's 1 thing that we cant OC; shader clocks.

Here's what I've noticed from both my 8 series gc. my reference card (Asus 8800GTS 320) is running at about 1188mhz shader clock. As shader clock increase in propotion to core clock, I've managed to have a stable OC with 1418 mhz shader clock (from stock core 500mhz to 631mhz).

On the other hand, XFX 8800GTS XXX has a pre OC core clock at 580mhz (reference clock 500mhz). WHen I OC the XFX's core to 631mhz, the shader clock jumps from 1512mhz to 1620mhz.

Here's a summary table of both the cards;

Asus 8800GTS 320 MB | 500/1600/1188 (core/memory/shader)
XFX 8800GTS 320 MBXXX | 580/1800/1512 (core/memory/shader)


As shader clocks increases when core increases, I've set the core clock to 631mhz and compare both the shaders.

Asus 8800GTS 320 MB | 631/1884/1418 (core/memory/shader)
XFX 8800GTS 320 MBXXX | 631/1884/1620 (core/memory/shader)

The result shows that pre-OC cards hv higher shader clocks compared to reference card despite the same core clocks.

As of now, neither RT nor Ati Tools (pls correct me if i'm wrong) is unable to control the shader clock, Getting pre-oc cards seems to be the better deal here; as far as the unified shader domain is concerned.

Just my 2 cents.

For 8800series better go for normal then oc. Save the RM200++ for other parts.

Nope.
Version maybe which is Overclocked Edition, Ultra Edition or some other edition, but i never heard of GC have reivision, stepping

You want a GC that is easier to overclocked, get those that has been factory Pre-overclocked.

oced card if rosak can claim warranty or...

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Offcourse can ler.

different stepping @ revison, no
but got some model which used diff core( i forgot the core name )
such as 6200 early model uses 6600 IIRC,

same as 7800GS agp which some manufacturers like Gainward used 7900GT core

Chow

if there is no physical damage on the card

Simply said just put it to RMA and wait for the result. Mostly they just change to new one.

wut i mean if u oc the normal 1 then broke down
woooooohhhhhhhoooooooooooo to ur 8800gt ulra or wut so ever

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Added on August 16, 2007, 8:03 pmwut i mean if u oc the normal 1 then broke down
woooooohhhhhhhoooooooooooo to ur 8800gt ulra or wut so ever

This post has been edited by nelienuxe_sara: Aug 16 2007, 08:03 PM

software oc wont void ur warranty

software oc wont void ur warranty

software oc won't void warrenty? then using what method will void?

Doing VMOD.