EVGA Geforce GTX 260 Core 216 RELEASED!

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exlink

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http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=896-P3-1265-AR

Just submitted my step-up from my regular GTX 260 since its the exact same price as I paid.

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evga.com said:
Performance
NVIDIA GTX 260
576 MHz GPU
216 Processing Cores
400 MHz RAMDAC

Memory
896 MB, 448 bit DDR3
2000 MHz (effective)
111.9 GB/s Memory Bandwidth

Interface
PCI-E 2.0 16x
DVI-I, DVI-I, HDTV-7
SLI Capable
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Good deal for you. My step up would cost me $40 so I'll pass. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up a GTX 280 die shrink sometime
 
I've got a vanilla 260 doing 725/1450/1250 right now. This would be a cheap step-up, but I'm wondering how it will OC... no sense upgrading if it can't OC like mine does...

Very anxious to hear some feedback on the OC'ing ability on these...
 
If you wait a bit, surely the SC and SSC versions will be released. I wouldn't worry though, GTX 260s are supposedly very overclockable, and people have reported receiving factory overclocked eVGA GTX 260s.
 
Brahmzy said:
I've got a vanilla 260 doing 725/1450/1250 right now. This would be a cheap step-up, but I'm wondering how it will OC... no sense upgrading if it can't OC like mine does...

Very anxious to hear some feedback on the OC'ing ability on these...
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I've got basically the same oc as you. I'm running 725/1450/1200. I wonder if this is going ot significantly reduce the life of my card
 
hey exlink.... How did the step up work? Did you have to send them your old 260 before they would ship you the stepped up one? Or do you have to give your credit card and then they send the new one out--- and if they dont get the old one they charge you for the new one----but if they do get the old one then they just dont charge you ?
 
slideways666 said:
hey exlink.... How did the step up work? Did you have to send them your old 260 before they would ship you the stepped up one? Or do you have to give your credit card and then they send the new one out--- and if they dont get the old one they charge you for the new one----but if they do get the old one then they just dont charge you ?
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I just had to pay for shipping (from EVGA to me) and to ship it to them. Came out to $5.63 total for UPS ground. You have to ship the card to them first and once they check that its fully functional and you sent all the accessories with it then they send you you're step-up card (takes up to 3 business days once they receive your card).

exlink
 
I still have my spare 8800 GTS 512MB so I'm not without a card. :) You should always have a decent spare card (doesn't have to be a 8800 series, it was just my last card, even a 7600GT would do fine) so you don't have to spend extra money on overnight shipping which gets extremely expensive. But essentially step up generally takes shipping there (2-3 days depending on your location) + the process (1-3 days) + the return shipping (2-3 days as well) so all in all it can last anywhere from ~5 to 9 days usually.

But hey, for $10 (shipping there and back), I think it was definitely worth upgrading my 260 GTX to the Core 216. :)
 
My turnaround time will be 11 days for my stepup, but i used ground both ways due to having a crossfire setup atm. Only stepping up because the gtx260 will be easier to sell than used 9800GTX cards. Takes usually 2 working days once they get the card to ship it out. So the big time sink is the actual shipping times.
 
I'm holding my stepup until the last minute in hopes the new gtx280 comes available.
If not, I'll just stepup to the new 260 if they overclock decent.
 
This is a waste of step up. Read the anandtech article. The new GTX260 has ~5fps difference.
 
I saw the new GTX 260 core 216 cards on the shelf at Fry's.
 
hmz said:
This is a waste of step up. Read the anandtech article. The new GTX260 has ~5fps difference.
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Worth it for me since my step-up expires in about a month and I don't want to spend $150+ for the GTX 280. Paying the $10 shipping difference to get ~5 FPS more is worth it to me.
 
This will be my backup option if Nvidia doesn't release anything new by the time my step up ends in Mid November. I rather have the low power consumption of the GTX 2x0 Series then what I have now.
 
I wouldn't even waste my time and effort doing a step-up for this.

My step-up expires in a month, if the 280+ has a reasonable price to it I'll step up to that.

Not worth opening the case, removing the card, finding all the small parts that goes with it, boxing it up bringing it to ups to ship......for 5fps? No thank you.
 
So is this faster than a vanilla 280? How would this or a 280 compare to 4850CF? ATI's drivers are just too bad and I grow weary waiting for them to get their shit together and am thinking about going back to team green.
 
Astrodave said:
So is this faster than a vanilla 280? How would this or a 280 compare to 4850CF? ATI's drivers are just too bad and I grow weary waiting for them to get their shit together and am thinking about going back to team green.
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You will wait until hell freezes over my friend.

NO matter what the fan boys say, ATI has NEVER been consistent on drivers.
 
Ya i'm running crossfired 4870s right now and just stepped up my cards with intent to sell the 260s, but the ATI drivers are pissing me off. Really debating on putting the 260s in and selling the 4870s.
 
Anyone get the Core 216's and overclock them? The superclocked version just came out but I wasn't able to change my step-up. :(

I'll post my overclock as soon as I get my card hopefully sometime next week. For now my replacement 8800 GTS G92 will have to do. :)
 
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