Performance difference in these two cards?

[Gbaby1008]

I'm trying to decide between these 2 cards
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I'm leaning towards the cheaper one just because its in stock and the other one is always out of stock. My question is if i go with the cheaper would i get a for sure oc to the faster ones speeds? (550/1630) Or would i be safer by just waiting for the more expensive one to get in stock?

Thx

 

[BassBomb]

there is no for sure overclock.... just get the cheaper one and volt mod it 😉

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: Gbaby1008
I'm trying to decide between these 2 cards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150149">1</a>
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150148">2</a>
I'm leaning towards the cheaper one just because its in stock and the other one is always out of stock. My question is if i go with the cheaper would i get a for sure oc to the faster ones speeds? (550/1630) Or would i be safer by just waiting for the more expensive one to get in stock?

Thx

Your links suck

Also get the cheaper one since:
a) It's in stock
b) It'll OC to the same level as the more expisive one
c) You might do the vmod anyway so it doesn't matter and might as well get the cheaper one.

Also, what about Evga?
Cheaper 7900GT

And it'll still OC the same.

Also, make sure you get some third party cooling on that stuff. The stock cooler is way too small and dinky. Great for stock speeds, but for a real OC (even without vmod) third party cooling might be a good investment. (cause the NV Silencer is like 20 bucks 🙂)

 

[Gbaby1008]

Originally posted by: wizboy11

Originally posted by: Gbaby1008
I'm trying to decide between these 2 cards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150149">1</a>
&
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150148">2</a>
I'm leaning towards the cheaper one just because its in stock and the other one is always out of stock. My question is if i go with the cheaper would i get a for sure oc to the faster ones speeds? (550/1630) Or would i be safer by just waiting for the more expensive one to get in stock?

Thx

Your links suck

Also get the cheaper one since:
a) It's in stock
b) It'll OC to the same level as the more expisive one
c) You might do the vmod anyway so it doesn't matter and might as well get the cheaper one.

Also, what about Evga?
Cheaper 7900GT

And it'll still OC the same.

Also, make sure you get some third party cooling on that stuff. The stock cooler is way too small and dinky. Great for stock speeds, but for a real OC (even without vmod) third party cooling might be a good investment. (cause the NV Silencer is like 20 bucks 🙂)

fixed links

The problem is i need Vivo so its gona have to be one of these cards

 

[Gbaby1008]

I guess what my main question is would it be better to go for a factory oc'd card or get a stock one? I've heard that most of the time the factory oc'd cards cant be oc'd any more.

 

[morgash]

ACTUALLY, in my experience(only with eVGA 7900gt's, other companies may differ) the factory OC'ed cards use slightly better cores than their non OC'ed compatriots allowing for slightly higher overclocks. For instance my 7900gt goes up to 625/1950 with gpu vmod and vmem mod. the core will go no higher without artifacting. My firend's 7900gt CO however will do 685/1950 with the same volts and same cooling system (vf900). This seems to be corroborated by two things. One i have noticed much better core OC's on the CO and KO series than on vanilla ones. Two, i was talking to the head engineer at eVGA the other day (long story on how that happened) and he was telling me that the way they find the KO and CO series is by simply setting them at that speed with the stock sink and run ATItool art scanning on em until they fail. I think he said if they can run for 8-12 hrs or more then they go into the good GPU bin (aka the factory OC bin) and if they run less than that with no arts they go into the vanilla bin (aka 7900gt vanilla, no factory OC). THis would expalin the higher OC's commonly seen on the factory OC cards. they simply use better cores. soooo, in conclusion i would say spend a little extra on the higher OC one and u are very likely to get a better core. just my $0.02 🙂

Morgash

 

[Cheesetogo]

Supposedly XFX and Leadtek use better cores for ocing while the other companies don't, so I'd stick with XFX.