XFX, BFG, or EVGA GTX 285?

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[H]adouken

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Not sure who to buy from, they are all great. I like XFXs designs the best, I want the card the overclocks nicely too (hopefully I can flash one of their BIOSes into a BIOS that allows heavier overclocking).

XFX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150334
- Advantage: $350
XFX: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...?EdpNo=4394538&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs
- Advantage: $380, XXX Edition (670MHz)
BFG: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143168
- Advantage: 666MHz, but $380, seems worse than above. Tradeup.
EVGA: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130442
- Advantage: None, besides step-up.

Which of these would you pick? Please post deals/links of your own if you have them. Leaning towards XFX, and hopefully can OC to 700MHz myself, but never heard of XFX having a stepup program like the other two. Don't need a step up though, as GTX 285 is the new king, and will probably be good for a very very long time.
 
They're all really the same, the only thing that differs is the warranty/step-up and I think the OC'd editions might be using custom bioses? You can probably just flash a stock 285 with the OC bios, anyway.

That said, wow, that XFX for $350 looks tempting. Mighty tempting.
I might off my 280 and 48701GB to grab one of those.
 
[H]adouken;1033601457 said:
Will there be a custom BIOS for this one to allow it to shoot up to higher clocks like the EVGA SSC Edition?
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There is no custom BIOS, just binning as far as I am aware.
 
UtopiA said:
Double lifetime warranty, no step-up.
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Yep :( I wish they had step-up but most of the time you can sell the old card and get a deal on the new one below the step-up price anyway making the cost difference roughly the same. Double lifetime warranty means more comfort for the buyer as well since they won't have any waranty hassles if they need to RMA it at some future point.
 
Standard 285 clocks are apparently 648/1476/2484 (Core/Shader/Memory).

BFG GTX 285 OC - 666/1512/2484
BFG GTX 285 OC+ - 675/1548/2520
BFG GTX 285 OC2 - 691/1566/2592
BFG GTX 285 OCX - 702/1584/2664

eVGA GTX 285 stock - 648/1476/2484
eVGA GTX 285 Superclocked - 675/1548/2538
eVGA GTX 285 SSC - 702/1584/2646

XFX GTX 285 Standard (GX-285N-ZDFF): 648/1476/2480 + Far Cry 2
XFX GTX 285 Standard (GX-285N-ZDFA): 648/1476/2480 + Assassin's Creed
XFX GTX 285 XXX (GX-285N-ZDDC): 670/1476/2500 + no game
XFX GTX 285 XXX (GX-285N-ZDDF): 670/1476/2500 + no game (or is it Far Cry 2?)
XFX GTX 285 XXX (GX-285N-ZDDA): 670/1476/2500 + Far Cry 2 (or is it Assassin's Creed?)
XFX GTX 285 Black (GX-285N-ZDBF): 690/1476/2600 + Far Cry 2
According to XFX's 285 page they don't overclock the shaders on any of them? I also think there are some typos, because I'm guessing that for the last letter, F=Far Cry 2, A=Assassin's Creed and C=no game.

I would just get the cheapest 285, try each of these overclock speeds to see which one is the highest stable with no artifact errors in ATiTool, and feel like I saved a lot of money.

More edits: yeah I got confused between XFX and BFG...

More edits! Okay, I'm done now, really.
 
evilsofa said:
Looking at bfgtech.com, I see BFG has listed four models of 285 (but no prices there):
GTX 285 OC - 666/1512/2484
GTX 285 OC+ - 675/1548/2520
GTX 285 OC2 - 691/1566/2592
GTX 285 OCX - 702/1584/2664
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Damn those clocks beat all of them, hopefully they release soon.
 
Either the BFG or the eVGA. The tradeup is worth it. Why worry about trying to find someone to unload your old card on when you know the company will take it back.
 
What would I trade up to in the 90 days? There's nothing launching that's going to be worth it...
 
norky said:
Either the BFG or the eVGA. The tradeup is worth it. Why worry about trying to find someone to unload your old card on when you know the company will take it back.
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Agreed... I switched my order to a BFG card off of Frys.com with overnight shipping, it's coming in tomorrow (Friday Jan 16th 2009) and has a stepup program just in case ;) :D.
 
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