wannabe_OC

lol, me either...

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huntman21014

Its amazing that 5 8800GS's can now overtake the top producer of that image

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Redmist

Damn...I need to get some Nvidia cards going to gain some ground and catch up to all of you guys!

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huntman21014

yep, $300 for 5 8800GS's and you have yourself close to 30k ppd

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BLAKIE33

WoW talking of 8800gs..I got 2 last night,They lookted great out of the boxext they were the XFX Alpha Dog 8800GS XXX Edition, Talk obout a loud fan that one was loud as i only tested 1 of them.
I returned tonight.As one of them ran at 690MHz core and other at 590MHz core as they almost lookted the same but only 1 sticker on box gave it away and the latest model had an extra few xs to the end of its name.And other didnt.Shop only had the older jan 08 cards and no more Feb 08 cards which are better by the way.Thats another reason why i changed back to the 88GT and not a 9800GT as the BFG has klifetime warente and much faster clock speeds and as you'll agree much better fan also.
I did do the right thing right? and not have kept the 2 x new 8800GS...
I do fold a very lot and play game's often but not all the time.

And got the BFG 8800GT Overclock
CORE: [NORMAL 8800GT SPEEDS] 600 / 700MHz [BFG CARD]
MEMORY:[NORMAL 8800GT SPEEDS] 800 / 1000MHz [BFG CARD]
SHADER:[NORMAL 8800GT SPEEDS] 1500 / 1728MHz [BFG CARD]
So there's a nice speed increase,Also has i nice big fan on it which is very quiet and glow's green which looks preety cool.
LINK 1 : http://www.bfgtech.com/bfgr88512gtocxfe.aspx
Link 2: http://www.i4u.com/section-viewarticle-437.html
What you guys think? For folding purposes.

Reason i put this was i got 2 ECS Elite Group 8800GT and one died 5-6 days ago.It artifacts badly when turned on,Fans work ext,And has been tested in another PC.So aAs there fairly new i email ECS and still no reply.They are rubish with there customers.After 3rd email still the same no replys.And the other ECS some guy offered me £150 for it if i gave hime 2 sticks of memory which of course i did.
Now at least i have 1 BFG card and another ordered tomorow and it scores much more on benchmarks,Folds quite a bit more and looks great without the stock 8800GTreference cooler.And it overclocks quite a bit more also but thats down to the good cooler and ram spreaders on it.[great card imo]
Also i got a lifetime guarentee with 24/7 support.Pretty good i thought for a card i already got 400,000+ Folding points with already.

1) So top those who dont read the box ,Always do for how long they will let you send faulty goods back to the manufactuer,

2) Do home work on all brand's,As i have with the ECS elite Group and its almost all bad feed back.
As you could end up with a dodgy card under your bed and you can not do any thing with it

Any sugestions on the 8800GT almost dead card? What is my next step?
Thanks.

mortimersnerd

*sigh* hitting a million tomorrow.

huntman21014

yep, I had one of the XFX ones and returned it due to the fact the fan was obscenely loud, then the evga one I bought was faulty. I settled on my 8800GTS in my sig from an RMA on a 7900GT

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CL3P20

..Not outta the box your not. A fresh, stock GS will produce ~4-4.5k..OC'd, you might hit 5k.. with a BIOS flash to 1.1v GPU, you can hit just over 5.5k..and with a vmod, just over 6k PPD.

So, best case.. 5x vmod'd GS will produce a hair over 32k ..opposite of that, the 5x stock GS will only produce a little over 20k.

..I know a little about the G92..

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huntman21014

I would say you know a lot about G92, I am just going by what my 8800GS did before I RMA'ed it. On stock voltage mine put out just under 6k, that was at 600 core/2000shader/900 memory, it wasn't 100% stable but never corrupted a WU

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CL3P20

ROFL.. the 1998mhz strap is NOT stock.. Your quoting OC'd specs, with shader speeds that typically require at LEAST 1.1v or exceptional cooling.

with shaders at :

1944mhz on a GS you will produce 5924 PPD
1998mhz on a GS you will produce 6024 PPD
2052mhz on a GS you will produce 6124 PPD


..I can go on and on..bottom line, is most folks will never see the 1944mhz strap on a GS..unless its a SC edition or has had the BIOS flashed to more GPUv. I would say you were lucky...before your GPU died. Most likely from the shaders cooking.

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