Gainward Geforce3 Ti200 128MB w/TV-OUT Golden Sample $151

[TheLizardMan]

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Does anyone know any better deals ON THIS EXACT CARD?

 

[dsp282]

I was able to get this card for a price of $134 at a local computer show this weekend. Haven't been able to find a better price online as of yet.

Try this Linky at $137. It's not Gainward but its the same chipset.

 

[areohbe]

what's a 'golden sample' anyways?

 

[dsp282]

Taken from hardocp



<< The ?Golden Sample? part indicates that this card's core and memory chips are pulled from a very good batch of chips that should have good overclocking potential. >>

 

[topcat903]

i have this card, and Golden Sample is like getting the good batches...easily overclockable.

i just wished the G4 didn't come out right after i bought this card....grrr

 

[akahai]

<< I was able to get this card for a price of $134 at a local computer show this weekend. Haven't been able to find a better price online as of yet.

Try this Linky at $137. It's not Gainward but its the same chipset. >>



for a second I thought the original price is $109.......

 

[cremefilled]

I'm sure most people reading this know it already, but if you don't, the Geforce 4 Ti4200 is coming out by the end of this month, and its price will pretty quickly drop to the $150 (or certainly $180) level. It has substantially better performance than the Ge3Ti200 across the board, and will likely overclock to Ge4Ti4600 levels.

On the Golden Sample, I've read speculation that these aren't part-selected. Otoh, Gainward is the only manufacturer that acknowledges that the Geforce cards can overclock quite easily. I believe that they will honor their warranty within a certain overclocking range (about 10%). Not that any manufacturer is likely to prove that you overclocked a card to such-and-such level and ruined it. Cards do fail occasionally, even when run completely in spec.

In other words, it's not clear if Gainward is getting "special" GPU's from Nvidia. It seems to me that it wouldn't be worth Nvidia's time to do this sort of advanced bin-sorting. If Gainward is buying higher-speed memory, then that is obviously something to consider, but I also don't know that that is the case. Look for <5 nsec memory on a Ge3ti200, so that it can run its memory clock over the specified 200 MHz.

 

[RONType1]

The 64mb version is only 129 plus $7 shipping. And you will only see *slight* gains if you go with the 128MB version...

I just bought the 64meg version like 3 weeks ago, I'm debating if I should AmEx BVG it now and get back $20 or hold out for it to drop some more?!?!?!?