BFG 7950 512 SLI vs EVGA g80 superclocked single

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

The GTx superclocked and Ultra are different cards, and I'm not doing liquid cooling, my room is a constant 65F Case temp is 36C

The Ultra shares the same GPU as the GTX with higher clocks. I didn't mean for you to get liquid-cooling, but meant to say that MSI and BFG sell GTXs with liquid-cooling setups on them in contrast to the HSFs found on others. That'd enable you to clock the GTX upto (and maybe beyond) the Ultra's speeds for a price less than the Ultra's.

 

[LinkedKube]

The MSI and EVGA liquid cooling systems are flops, From reading reviews they cant get much higher overclocks than the gtx superclocked, and they cost more.

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Hmm, didn't know about that. And the BFG one is almost as expensive as the Ultra. Talk about marketing hype! In any case, the Ultra is very marginally better than the GTX, but large price difference doesn't justify it.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

All I can say is if you intend to get a new card. Make sure that it is eVGA. eVGA makes the best products. They are one of the largest partners with nVIDIA.

 

[Adhmuz]

From what i can tell Dual 7900GTX cards in SLI are comparable to a single 8800GTX, not sure how reliable the charts at Tom's are but there numbers can't be that far off.

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Why get two cards when one card can do their job pretty easily and by sucking lesser power too? An X1950XTX Crossfire setup is on par with an 8800GTX and beats a 7900GTX SLI setup as well, so logic dictates that the 8800GTX is faster than a 7900GTX SLI setup. The 8800GTX may also be quieter than aforementioned SLI and Crossfire setups and once OC'd, may crush them easily.

 

[twite]

Just get 2 8800 ultra's in sli and it will solve all your problems. :approve:

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Hehe, twite. No he should get SLi'ed eVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX cards because they are really the same thing as 8800 Ultras.

 

[CMH]

Meh, those waterblocks specifically for 8800s are a waste of money. I'd rather get a good general GPU waterblock, and RAMsinks. That should do the trick.

 

[twite]

They are not the same thing, the ultra outperforms the gtx in every category!

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Not if overclocked, and that is the only thing an 8800 Ultra is! An overclocked version of the 8800 GTX. (With a minor BIOS mod that says GeForce 8800 Ultra instead of GTX)

 

[twite]

Have fun stably overclocking a card that idle temps 60 degrees by 35% on air cooling.

Yet the Ultra is distinct for several reasons. First and foremost, Nvidia says the Ultra packs a new revision of G80 silicon that allows for higher clock speeds in a similar form factor and power envelope. In fact, Nvidia says the 8800 Ultra has slightly lower peak power consumption than the GTX, despite having a core clock of 612MHz, a stream processor clock of 1.5GHz, and a memory clock of 1080MHz (effectively 2160MHz since it uses GDDR3 memory). That's up from a 575MHz core, 1.35GHz SPs, and 900MHz memory in the 8800 GTX.

Not the same card!

 

[beef_jerky4104]

This is twice you have offended me. (Hehe twite and twice.)

I will refrain from flaming.

 

[twite]

If you find the fact that i am correcting you in misinformed advice, then i think you are on the wrong website.

They are simply not the same cards.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

But the performance gain is so small that it would be so stupid to spend the premium for the 8800 Ultra's.

 

[twite]

But the performance gain is so small that it would be so stupid to spend the premium for the 8800 Ultra's.

That i can agree with. I never expected him to actually listen to me and buy $1800 of video cards. But that was not my point..they aren't the same card.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

I understand, but they really are so similar that... You know what? Lets just drop it.

EDIT: Wow we were engaged in mortal combat right there.

 

[twite]

Yeah, good idea.

I know what you are saying. It would be foolish to spend an extra $400 for minimal performance.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Hehe. My friend told me to overclock his PNY GeForce FX 5200, to a performance equal of a GeForce 8800 GTX.

 

[CMH]

I suppose given the perfect environment, in a perfect world, the FX5200 overclocked will perform better than the 8800gtx.

What this means is that everything is flawless, down to evey small little connection in the chip, and it produces absolutely no heat whatsoever, and therefore having absolutely nothing to bar its performance.

Voila, the FX5200 that will outperform every card today, or the future.

Too bad you can't get all the other features that you do with the other cards....

 

[beef_jerky4104]

The funny thing was I tried to overclock it. But I couldn't reach a single MHz higher than stock settings. I'm guessing nVIDIA has some kind of lock on it.

 

[LinkedKube]

Man I was gone for the weekend and look what you guys made of the thread, lol. Well I purchased my superclocked gtx cards from evga, gonna run 3dmark this morning and see what happens.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Tight. Tell me how they run.

 

[JimShady23]

Hmm

Well I purchased my superclocked gtx cards from evga

Supersmashbrada, do you wipe your behind with dollar bills by any chance ?

 

[twite]

Supersmashbrada, do you wipe your behind with dollar bills by any chance ?

No, just 8800 Gtx's.