its only 30% faster than a ultra cause its using 256 bit busses, and 512 ram on each card.
Im willing to bet a true 8800gtx or ultra sli setup will smoke this thing at high resolutions.
imho anyway.
everything runs fine at stock though?
How are your temps.
If everything runs fine at stock you don't have a bad card.
Video cards will usually give errors if overclocked. They either show artifacts from overclocked memory or they simply lock up and require a rebbot from overclocked cores.
If...
10% what games are you playing?
Look at reviews at trusted sites just type in 8800gtx sli review in google.
Many games are 40 to 60% higher and alot more than that at 1920 x 1200 with 4xaa.
If you like eyecandy its worth it, i love my slied 8800gtx's.
Try playing a game at 1920 x 1200 with...
well you can set it by making sure direct fan control is selected in ntune and then clicking the second card on the drop down menu.
Unfortunately it will not stick on reboot.
For some reason nvidia has made it impossible to set fan speeds that stick upon reboot in sli systems.
It has been a...
there is also a bug in the newest nvidia drivers, they may say(in the games profiles section of the cp) that they have defaulted to single gpu when in fact they are using the custom sli setting, go to sli forums to read about it.
don't listen to anyone that says that cpu is holding you back it isn't ...period.
Only thing those faster cpu's do is give bigger epeens for 3dmark.
In games a quad core at 3.6ghz is only .2 % faster than a x2 6000+ at 1920 x 1200 rez, check it out at firing squad.com they have a good article...
glad to see its worked out hopefully the dumbasses at Fedex don't charge brokerage seeing as how its ground shipping.
I know they shouldnt as its a rma but they can be a pain.
GG EVGA thanks for the fast updates.
Lets put it this way, i have 2 8800 gtx's in sli and i am still bottlenecked by my video cards in most games i play, crysis, cod4 etc.
If i drop my rez down to 1280 etc i get better frames which means im gpu bound not cpu bound.
what rez do you game at?
If you are gaming at any resolution higher than 1600 x 1200 with that card there is no was your cpu is holding you back.
It has been shown over and over that in modern games at high rez it is strictly the gpu that bottle necks the system...see crysis for example.
Go...
pathetic? Not if you happen to be one of the people with 1920 x 1200 displays that actually wants to use 4xaa and 1920 rez.
Both crossfire and sli were 70 to 100% faster in almost all the pertenant benchmarks and at that rez you start getting into memory bandwidth limitations that sli'ed...
People read the thread or don't post.
The brokerage etc is included in evga's shipping cause its not standard ground.
Neither fedex nor ups charge brokerage on anything but standard ground.
The issue is Evga coming in and trying to play us like they are doing as well as they can and we all...
Bottom line is this, if other companies can do RMA's for free or minimal charges evga can eat some of this cost, i don't want to hear any more crap about shipping.
If your product is defective for whatever reason why should anyone have to pay 60 bucks and up to get a replacement.
BFG covers...
i don't have a 680i motherboard but sli was the only way to go for me.
A 1920 x1200 rez i couldnt put aa on in many games with a single gtx now i can crank it and all is well.
Its really a eye candy and rez thing if you don't use alot of aa and high rez pass on it.
i can't get it to run its broken.
I get a 110 error in vista.
You can unpack it in winrar but all you get is 4 useless files...weird.
Why can't it just be a damn .easy to use exe