What's the difference between these three EVGA cards

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DarkSideofOZ

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My 3 month old PNY 8800 GT XR8 512 OC card is shitting out... so, I'm Looking at these 3 cards on Newegg. all 3 have 5 star reviews

EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail - 209.99 - 10.00 Mir = 199.99 (5 egg rating, 140 reviews)

EVGA 896-P3-1255-A1 GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail - 208.99 - 20.00 Mir = 188.99 (5 egg rating, 15 reviews)


EVGA 896-P3-1265-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail - 199.99 - 20.00 Mir = 179.99 (5 egg rating, 221 reviews)

the only difference I can see is the AR/A1/55/65 dunno which is the best revision, I tried Googling revisions and what not but to no avail. Any help on choosing the best card would be much appreciated.
 
Looks like the first comes with Call of Duty: World at War, the second Mirror’s Edge and the third nothing extra.
 
The first two cards are 55nm with just a different game bundled and the last card is 65nm.
 
Perhaps someone else can help here, I cant view the specifications for each card.
The first 2 look to be the same card but pictures are often wrong.
 
Specs are the same except for the first two being 55nm and the last being 65nm.
 
55nM run a little hotter stock as the heatsink is slightly smaller.
Its not very significant though as 55nM cards still clock quite well.
The downside being that 65nM cards can use EVGAs voltage mod tool whereas 55nM cant.
So you might get a higher clock from a 65nM card with volt mod but it will run hotter.
 
I was reading in a different forum, someone said the AR vs A1 means the AR are repackaged used cards that people sent back using EVGA's Step-up program.

Edit: Upon further googling and investigation, AR is the original card, A1 is the newest revision (according to evga's usual revision scheme.)
 
DarkSideofOZ said:
I was reading in a different forum, someone said the AR vs A1 means the AR are repackaged used cards that people sent back using BFG's Step-up program.
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lol. so eVGA buys BFG's step up cards and re-sells them. :D
 
Whoosh... I'm pretty sure Zepher was joking about DarkSideofOZ's original typo saying BFG instead of eVGA. It would be hilarious to see a bunch of guys in eVGA shirts shopping at BFG's clearance outlet and peeling all the stickers off.
 
InvisiBill said:
Whoosh... I'm pretty sure Zepher was joking about DarkSideofOZ's original typo saying BFG instead of eVGA. It would be hilarious to see a bunch of guys in eVGA shirts shopping at BFG's clearance outlet and peeling all the stickers off.
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one person got it. :)
 
nvidiapwnsati said:
Are they not allowed to do that, Id assume?
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Mr. Bluntman said:
If they are trying to pass them off as new, hell no! A refurb is not a new product.
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As far as I've thought they are allowed to do that. The boxes don't say anywhere on their that they're selling a product that has never been used, so they can't be charged with false advertising. The bad thing is, is that they tell you when something is refurbished, but not when something is new. I would trust newegg's warehous team to try to ship all the ones they thought were new until they ran out, then they'd have to ship the refurbished ones, at least until this bust turns into a boom, which is eventually going to happen. We're actually better off now than we will be when the stimulus package starts "working"; that's pretty damn scary.

I'm under the impression evga isn't doing too well; i heard they're not big at all in europe, where the economy is more likely, but still not very, to be saved. Then just hearing the fact that there are rumors, which few people really know for sure whether they're true, that claimed evga is now distributing refurbs and presenting them as new.
 
Zepher said:
lol. so eVGA buys BFG's step up cards and re-sells them. :D
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See what you started? Now you've got 1/2 the posters convinced that you were being serious... you're suppose to use the :rolleyes: smiley for sarcastic/ironic posts. I think I saw someone in another post talking about the -AR cards being refurbished... I have an -AR card and I can confirm that it DOES show as valid for step-up with eVGA.

Ahh, the joys of forums.
 
lol that was a truly bad typo, I had been looking at a BFG card prior to the eVGA one. I wanted to go with a company with a somewhat lifetime warranty and my last card was a BFG. I ended up going with the 65nm version since I can volt mod it without voiding the warranty by flashing its bios.

I'm gonna RMA my XLR8 8800 GT, and pitch it in a media center PC I plan on building... Though I hope the RMA can go through... I didn't purchase it, I won it at QuakeCon. :p
 
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