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XFX ultimate OCing

Originally written by: tmcnet

It's just more proof that XFX produces the best -- and fastest -- video cards in the world. XFX is committed to producing a higher quality product beyond the processor alone. From board material to memory quality, nothing is compromised.
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Rollo, are you trying to start a flame war?
 
Id just like to take a moment to say, XFX is trash. There is a reason its cheaper than other brands.

Its sold at Walmart, enough said.
 
XFX, PNY, TRASH
no matter how many times they run these worthless stunts. Think, they picked the best 6800gt in their inventory and did this.
 
I keep hearing talk about XFX being crap. I myself own a XFX 6800GT and it produced artifacting after a while, but after a RMA I got a good card back, and have no complaints about it. I'm wondering how many people who trash XFX actually own a card, and what exactly is wrong with them? They are mostly rebadged nvidia reference designs anyway (in fact the original 6800GT I had had the Nalu sticker on it, not even an XFX one) so saying that it's crap is like saying nvidia's reference designs are crap. Am I missing something here?
 
WOW...."this proves that XFX makes the fastest, most quality cards" or something along those lines

well, i guess not ALL XFX cards are bad, just i think they have a bigger chance of ending up crappy
 
Originally posted by: Goi
I keep hearing talk about XFX being crap. I myself own a XFX 6800GT and it produced artifacting after a while, but after a RMA I got a good card back, and have no complaints about it. I'm wondering how many people who trash XFX actually own a card, and what exactly is wrong with them? They are mostly rebadged nvidia reference designs anyway (in fact the original 6800GT I had had the Nalu sticker on it, not even an XFX one) so saying that it's crap is like saying nvidia's reference designs are crap. Am I missing something here?
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Well, I went through 4 of 'em before I got a good one. I too think XFX is crap, and recommend them to no one, and will NEVER buy one again. They DO produce 95% of their own cards, some of them may be fabbed by NVIDIA themselves, but for the most part, like any other company, they create their own cards based on NVIDIA's guidelines. The reason that people think XFX is crap is that they seem to use lower quality components than others (i.e. caps, power regulators, etc.) and that is the reason for lower prices on their cards. The fact that I went through so many of them is a testament to this. What other company\OEM that you know of (besides perhaps PNY 😛 ) will you have to hassle through 4 cards before getting a good one?
 
If I remember right, GeForcetonys XFX oddyssey began with buying a GT at an unheard of price off of Ebay, and involved OCing on at least some of the cards.

I had a XFX 6800GT I paid $380 for, worked great for me, now it works great for a friend. The thing about it is you don't hear about the ones that work, only the ones that don't. So you have 1000s of cards sold, but you see ten guys complain on a bbs and all of the sudden "XFX is crap!".

:roll:

Anyway, the point of this thread wasn't to pimp XFX, it was to note 6800GT SLI now has high mark on 3dmark05. Nothing more.
 
Originally posted by: Rollo
If I remember right, GeForcetonys XFX oddyssey began with buying a GT at an unheard of price off of Ebay, and involved OCing on at least some of the cards.

I had a XFX 6800GT I paid $380 for, worked great for me, now it works great for a friend. The thing about it is you don't hear about the ones that work, only the ones that don't. So you have 1000s of cards sold, but you see ten guys complain on a bbs and all of the sudden "XFX is crap!".
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Well, the OCing thing wasn't me, in fact, I didn't even know about it. It was my Neo2 mobo. Remember Rollo? And the eBay thing shouldn't matter. It was a brand new, unopened retail boxed card and was packed very nicely (actually, it was impressive), so I don't see why that should matter.

Anyway, I did say that I finally got one that worked, and the one I have is pretty damn good, but the fact remains, they still use less-than-high-quality parts. I do think it was pretty impressive that those doods were able to get their cards running at that high speeds, but I think that those were probably hand-picked samples, not "buy it at Best Buy (or Walmart 😛 )" ones. I just think that feat could have been achieved by any other card, especially a "hand-picked" one.
 
Originally posted by: Goi
I keep hearing talk about XFX being crap. I myself own a XFX 6800GT and it produced artifacting after a while, but after a RMA I got a good card back, and have no complaints about it. I'm wondering how many people who trash XFX actually own a card, and what exactly is wrong with them? They are mostly rebadged nvidia reference designs anyway (in fact the original 6800GT I had had the Nalu sticker on it, not even an XFX one) so saying that it's crap is like saying nvidia's reference designs are crap. Am I missing something here?
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Originally all 6800s were NV reference cards. NV forced OEMs to do it that way for quality control.

Now XFX uses low quality components that fail more often, and doesnt bother to seat heatsinks properly, not to mention poor tech support.
 

I am an XFX 6800 GT owner. I started a thread a month back about how shocked I was to learn how shoddy they were AFTER I bought the card. I had read reviews on Toms and here that showed the board performing well. Then I contacted customer support - no one seems to know what kind of long term warranty I have after 30 days. XFX sent me back to mwave, who said they are responsible for 30 days only. So I'm still not sure, then this guy responds in broken English that I have 2 years with restrictions. What the hell is "with restrictions"??

That being said, the card is currently running at 425mhz core and 1100mhz RAM absolutely completely stable. I had an RMA set up with mwave for a refund. I was not sure if they were going to slap me with a $58 restocking fee or not, and decided to just take my chances.

My next question is are we absolutely positive that I must get another one of this same brand to run SLI?? They are all reference boards aren't they?

The fan on this thing sounds like a siren when it kicks in. I'm going to get one of those artic silencers as soon as the rev2s show up.
 
Originally posted by: Heinrich

I am an XFX 6800 GT owner. I started a thread a month back about how shocked I was to learn how shoddy they were AFTER I bought the card. I had read reviews on Toms and here that showed the board performing well. Then I contacted customer support - no one seems to know what kind of long term warranty I have after 30 days. XFX sent me back to mwave, who said they are responsible for 30 days only. So I'm still not sure, then this guy responds in broken English that I have 2 years with restrictions. What the hell is "with restrictions"??

That being said, the card is currently running at 425mhz core and 1100mhz RAM absolutely completely stable. I had an RMA set up with mwave for a refund. I was not sure if they were going to slap me with a $58 restocking fee or not, and decided to just take my chances.

My next question is are we absolutely positive that I must get another one of this same brand to run SLI?? They are all reference boards aren't they?

The fan on this thing sounds like a siren when it kicks in. I'm going to get one of those artic silencers as soon as the rev2s show up.
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As long as they have the same amount of memory, the worst you would have to do is flash the 2 different cards to the same bios E.G. a Gainward Golden Sample, or a bios of either of the cards you were running for both.
 
give me a break, to the normal consumer XFX are crap. any company can pull their finger out of their ass if they really want to. guess having the highest 3dMock score means more to them than making decent products with good tech support
 
Is there any proof that XFX does use lower quality components(caps, resistors, etc) such as model numbers and tolerances compared with nvidia reference designs perhaps? I do admit that their tech support sucks, but that doesn't have anything to do with the boards themselves.
 
Goi - I agree with your skepticism, 1100mhz memory and 425 CPU is pretty darned good, and I bet I can get more out of it, but I've been working on the CPU recently and not the card. The fan sounds like an ambulance is coming down the street, but I think that's true for the other brands as well.
 
Originally posted by: Goi
Is there any proof that XFX does use lower quality components(caps, resistors, etc) such as model numbers and tolerances compared with nvidia reference designs perhaps? I do admit that their tech support sucks, but that doesn't have anything to do with the boards themselves.
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I suppose you could run the numbers on the caps in yahoo and see where they come from, i only carry leadtek and abit and dont have any XFXs on the bench this weekend.

That being said, more XFXs make it to the "dead sh!t bin than any other graphics card, even jetway and other pos brands. This is also due to their increased number of sales being a walmart item though.
 
Hmm, it seems to me that people are just assuming that they use lower quality parts without actually having any solid proof. Does anyone who owns an XFX card and thinks they're crap actually have any solid proof that this is the case? Seems to me that it's all based on anecdotal observations.
 
geforce tony had a few probs with his xfx cards recall....all three of them infact, though people never got to the bottom of his story as to wehter they were faulty to begin with or if he had altered them

and im sure i remember a while back that xfx 6800gts were being sold with only 900mhz memory.

probably nothing major, but its the little bad things that always paint the picture
 
Originally posted by: Goi
I keep hearing talk about XFX being crap. I myself own a XFX 6800GT and it produced artifacting after a while, but after a RMA I got a good card back, and have no complaints about it. I'm wondering how many people who trash XFX actually own a card, and what exactly is wrong with them? They are mostly rebadged nvidia reference designs anyway (in fact the original 6800GT I had had the Nalu sticker on it, not even an XFX one) so saying that it's crap is like saying nvidia's reference designs are crap. Am I missing something here?
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lol doesn't that just help prove they have some serious problems, if the first card you got from them had artifacts? their support is very bad as well. if there's been reports about problems with them, why would you buy them over reputable brands like BFG and Leadtek?
 
Originally posted by: Goi
Hmm, it seems to me that people are just assuming that they use lower quality parts without actually having any solid proof. Does anyone who owns an XFX card and thinks they're crap actually have any solid proof that this is the case? Seems to me that it's all based on anecdotal observations.
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My observation is that they cant put on a heatsink straight for the life of them, literally about half of the videocards i replace are XFXs with mis-mounted heatsinks. As for overall quality... if the card burns up or artifacts all the time, i dont care if its made of solid gold, it doesnt work, and thats the bottom line.
 
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