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7800GTX512 OC

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imported_Shaq

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Greetings all,

Just got my BFG 512 GTX today and am very surprised with the OC I'm getting (615/1850). I was wondering what others were achieving with theirs. Post what brand you have too.

Thanks
 
just curious, u ask for "stable" overclock in your msg description. what exactly do u use to determine stability for vid card overclocking? what's the prime95 of vid card utilities these days?
 
Is that with stock cooling and voltages?
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Yes. Still messing with the settings though. Right now I'm testing 630/1840. Got through 3dmark05 with a 10690 on those settings. 3700+ @ 2770.

just curious, u ask for "stable" overclock in your msg description. what exactly do u use to determine stability for vid card overclocking? what's the prime95 of vid card utilities these days?
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I just run several programs and games and if it makes it through without any artifacts I call it stable. Not sure if there is *one* program better than the others.
 
I get 635/1.85 auto detect with coolbits with my eVGA 7800GTX512. I ran that RHDRIBL (sp?) program for about and hour at these clocks to monitor my load temp (which is 76) then played a bit of CS:S surf and finally CoD2 to really stress the card at max settings (I don't believe I've ever felt as fully immersed into a game as of now!). I used 1920x1200 4xAA max in game settings and I didn't have any artifacts or have stability issues with these insane autodetect oc settings, the game also ran silky smooth with these settings! I haven't even tried to see as high and I can get with my OC but I feel I really lucked out with my 7800GTX512 and it's OC'ability. Most of the reports I've seen haven't been able to break 600/1.8 on these cards, even with the special "OC" versions of the cards that BFG and other companies offer. All I will say is that I'm glad I chose eVGA the last few times round and I'm more than glad I stepped up! Oh btw for those that care about such things. I get 10390 in 3dmark05, I feel my CPU is really limiting the score though (didn't luck out with my Venice, the score below is the cap for this cpu 🙁 )
 
I'd love to tell you about my overclocks. Someday maybe.


The hype....

"we have another NVIDIA hard launch to evaluate."
-- HardOCP

"This week we have another successful hard launch from NVIDIA"
-- Anandtech


The truth...

"We have received your request to Step-Up to the new 512-P2-N545-AX.
However, due to the high demand regarding this product, it may take several weeks for your request to be processed."
-- evga marketing


The "high demand" evga is referring to is that they have only come up with 20 cards for the step-up program so far. Twenty. Not exactly what I'd call a "hard launch". Sounds like more of a "semi".
 
Originally posted by: Tanclearas
I'd love to tell you about my overclocks. Someday maybe.


The hype....

"we have another NVIDIA hard launch to evaluate."
-- HardOCP

"This week we have another successful hard launch from NVIDIA"
-- Anandtech


The truth...

"We have received your request to Step-Up to the new 512-P2-N545-AX.
However, due to the high demand regarding this product, it may take several weeks for your request to be processed."
-- evga marketing


The "high demand" evga is referring to is that they have only come up with 20 cards for the step-up program so far. Twenty. Not exactly what I'd call a "hard launch". Sounds like more of a "semi".
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:laugh: I like the double-entendre (but only if it isn't about me, :laugh: )
 
Originally posted by: Tanclearas
I'd love to tell you about my overclocks. Someday maybe.


The hype....

"we have another NVIDIA hard launch to evaluate."
-- HardOCP

"This week we have another successful hard launch from NVIDIA"
-- Anandtech


The truth...

"We have received your request to Step-Up to the new 512-P2-N545-AX.
However, due to the high demand regarding this product, it may take several weeks for your request to be processed."
-- evga marketing


The "high demand" evga is referring to is that they have only come up with 20 cards for the step-up program so far. Twenty. Not exactly what I'd call a "hard launch". Sounds like more of a "semi".
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Let's not forget the eVGA Step-Up program is a privilege. I'm sure if you wanted to buy one for retail they would certainly come up with one for you.
 
Originally posted by: Matt2
Originally posted by: Tanclearas
I'd love to tell you about my overclocks. Someday maybe.


The hype....

"we have another NVIDIA hard launch to evaluate."
-- HardOCP

"This week we have another successful hard launch from NVIDIA"
-- Anandtech


The truth...

"We have received your request to Step-Up to the new 512-P2-N545-AX.
However, due to the high demand regarding this product, it may take several weeks for your request to be processed."
-- evga marketing


The "high demand" evga is referring to is that they have only come up with 20 cards for the step-up program so far. Twenty. Not exactly what I'd call a "hard launch". Sounds like more of a "semi".
Click to expand...

Let's not forget the eVGA Step-Up program is a privilege. I'm sure if you wanted to buy one for retail they would certainly come up with one for you.
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Actually, the only way your going to be able to get a 7800 512 from evga direct is the step-up program for now. I called evga about buying one from them and they said it would be quite a while until they would be up for sale on their site due to "very limited quanities."
 
1) The step-up program is an advertised advantage of evga. This is more than simply a privelege. It is a selling feature. If you purchased a card that was advertised to run at a specified speed (like BFG models, or evga's OC models), but the card wouldn't run at those speeds without artifacts, would you simply say that's a "privelege" so the manufacturer shouldn't have to replace the card?

2) You cannot order the card from evga. They have been backordered since launch.
 
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