My EVGA step-up for 8800GTS 512 expiring on March 20th

[recoiledsnake]

I bought a EVGA 8800GTS G92 512MB towards the end of december for 360 bucks from newegg(came with free Crysis). I bought a stock EVGA only because of their step up program because I knew 9000 series was on the horizon and there were no factory OC cards from EVGA back then.

I am pretty satisfied with the GTS and it overclocks well except that I could use a bit more juice in UT3. I currently game at 1440x900 but will upgrade to a 1080p monitor soon. I was thinking last month that I could upgrade to the upcoming 9800GTX and then later SLI it but looks like the launch dates posted back then weren't true.(the dates said 5th March for the 9800X2 and we still don't have that). What's the best course of action for me? Should I get a second GTS now and SLI it? Or just wait for R200 or whatever in the second quarter?

 

[imported_wired247]

Let it ride, do nothing, IMHO

worry about video cards when you get the new monitor

 

[Capt Caveman]

Agree, do nothing. Nothing worth upgrading too.

 

[thestain]

That is one helluva a card you have. I just recently started editing my video cards bios using nVidia Bios editor version 3.8, it is a good program fun and you can even change the message that shows when your pc boots up. The way I edit my bios is to first through windows use nvidia bios editor to read and then save the current bios. I then edit things.. first the default clock.. no change to voltage just increase the clock for you memory and video card slightly and save it.. then get nvflash 5.63 and after unzipping files copy each file fropm final unzipped folder to a floppy or other dos bootable media, copy the old and new bios as oldbios.rom and newbios.rom from where you have stored in windows and you are good to go and when you boot from a floppy, I use bootable floppy by itself, but there is room for around 3-4 versions of your video cards bios if you combine things.. at a: prompt, simply type "nvflash.exe newbios.rom" with space in between and without quotes and it will flash your bios.. go through and see changes you can make, but with such a nice card I would not risk doing anything other than upping the clock speeds a tad.. once again.. awesome card and you don't need to have evga overclock the card for you.. but don't make BIG changes.. keep them small. By having oldbios.rom on same floppy it allows you to flash to old if you have any problems.. I screwed things up and blacked out screen, but nowing that once a prompt came up.. I just typed in nvflash.exe oldbios.rom and my card displayed things ok again. Hence my word of caution.. don't over do it.. just a little bit faster on core and memory and don't mess with the voltages, unless card is more for htpc in which case you and lower voltage little by little with good results.

The Stain