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Simmonz

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My friend bought a BFG GTX260 OC today and we found something strange: it took a 6 pin and an 8 pin power connector. Upon furthur inspection it had a little sticker on the side saying it was an GTX280. Sure enough upon boot up it says it is an GTX280. Somebody mislabled a GTX280 at some point and my friend was lucky enough to get a GTX280 for $340 after taxes because it was priced as the 260 that the design on the card says it is. What kind of luck was this ? Especially because his luck all week just plain sucked, this was one hell of a dose of karma.
 
Sweet, hopefully it works well for him and he has enough power for it.
 
Raz1r said:
Sweet, hopefully it works well for him and he has enough power for it.
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Well he was going to bring it back because his PSU had no 8 pin connector but once he found out he got a GTX 280 at such a steal he went and bought a 750 Watt PC Power PSU.
 
Simmonz said:
My friend bought a BFG GTX260 OC today and we found something strange: it took a 6 pin and an 8 pin power connector. Upon furthur inspection it had a little sticker on the side saying it was an GTX280. Sure enough upon boot up it says it is an GTX280. Somebody mislabled a GTX280 at some point and my friend was lucky enough to get a GTX280 for $340 after taxes because it was priced as the 260 that the design on the card says it is. What kind of luck was this ? Especially because his luck all week just plain sucked, this was one hell of a dose of karma.
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In this CAD? $340USD for a GTX260 is highway robbery
 
Think it was $340 CAD, which is about $270 USD.

Looking at his profile:

Location:
Hamilton/Orangeville Ontario, Canada
 
I don't understand.

So he went to a retail store and bought a 260 GTX box, but the card inside was a 280?
 
Hopefully he is lucky enough that the card won't have any problem later on because getting a warranty would be impossible since it is a different card.
 
that is the sweetest deak ever... how lucky would you feel... lol, my mate paid for a 256MB X1950 pro, like 2 years ago, and got the 512MB... but we recon that was just the guy at the store lol...
 
jediknight73 said:
Bingo!
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Maybe some guy had a faulty 280GTX and decided he'd get a 260 from the store, and place this broken 280 in the 260 box and return it for a refund and the dumb cashier didn't check the card?

I would run ATI Tool on it on stock speeds for 15 min to see if there's any problems
 
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