Zotac 8800GT - Wrong part in box?

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jonnyt1000

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Ordered a Zotac branded 8800GT card as soon as they came in stock on Ebuyer.com yesterday evenining (only £161 inc vat). Thanks to Ebuyers fast dispatch the Card turned up this morning.

The specifications listed on ebuyer were the standard 8800GT clocks - 600/1500/1800, but looking at the box I received this morning there is a sticker stating "Core Clock Boosted to 660MHz". According to the Zotac website this is standard for their cards, which is fair enough. The strange thing is that when I installed the card both Rivatuner and ATitool are reporting the card running at 700/1700/2000!!! Bonus!

Looks like they either loaded the wrong bios onto my card or they put the wrong card in the box. These clocks are what the "AMP" edition are supposed to run at. I'm not too sure if this will have an affect on the warranty but I'm not complaining because this card has so far proven to be stable and very fast. With my E6600 @ 3.6Ghz It scores a pretty impressive 13167 in 3D06 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3882954. Will be interesting to see what the card can do when I fit my MCW60 water block to it. Anyone else got a Zotac with the wrong clocks?

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Wow, I'm excited, I ordered this edition yesterday. I'm hoping mine will have the wrong part in the box as well. Will report back when I receive it ;) Thanks for making me hopeful.
 
Show a pic of the card plz. Never seen a Zotac (or heard of one for that matter).
 
stoney_titan said:
wow that's insanely high from the factory.:eek: My gts can't even reach those clocks.
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That's a GT, not a GTS, most stock GTs can reach those clocks as they are all prety reference designs right now.

I've had two 8800GTs, both were able to get over 700/1000 easily.
 
Spare-Flair said:
That's a GT, not a GTS, most stock GTs can reach those clocks as they are all prety reference designs right now.

I've had two 8800GTs, both were able to get over 700/1000 easily.
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Yea agreed, nice to have it come out of the box factory overclocked, but not really that lucky as most reference cards will do 700/2000(effective) anyway.
 
Sad thing is, after more testing it's not actually 100% stable at 2000 on the RAM. 1900 is the best it will do with no artefacts. Another strange thing is that the RAM is already being supplied with 2.0v (stock for the Qimonda chips is 1.8v I think).

Gaming at 700/1900 with the stock cooler I was seeing about 70c with the case on and the fan set at 50% (Ambient was a cool 17c), but I have since fitted my Swiftech MCW60 and temps don't top 48c.

Thought I'd see what it would do with a slight increase in VGPU. Managed to get 840/2000/1900 perfectly stable at 1.25v (1.1v stock) and can bench at 840/2000/2000, but doesn't seem to give that much of an increase in performance over the stock 700/2000, so i'll probably take the mod off and game at 700/1900 to be on the safe side.

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jonnyt1000 said:
Sad thing is, after more testing it's not actually 100% stable at 2000 on the RAM. 1900 is the best it will do with no artefacts. Another strange thing is that the RAM is already being supplied with 2.0v (stock for the Qimonda chips is 1.8v I think).

Gaming at 700/1900 with the stock cooler I was seeing about 70c with the case on and the fan set at 50% (Ambient was a cool 17c), but I have since fitted my Swiftech MCW60 and temps don't top 48c.

Thought I'd see what it would do with a slight increase in VGPU. Managed to get 840/2000/1900 perfectly stable at 1.25v (1.1v stock) and can bench at 840/2000/2000, but doesn't seem to give that much of an increase in performance over the stock 700/2000, so i'll probably take the mod off and game at 700/1900 to be on the safe side.


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Nice v-mod. It's too bad your ram won't do 2000, that's the first I've heard of a GT not getting 2000 stably. I've had two GTs, both made it to around 2000-2100 stable.
 
jonnyt1000 said:
Sad thing is, after more testing it's not actually 100% stable at 2000 on the RAM. 1900 is the best it will do with no artefacts. Another strange thing is that the RAM is already being supplied with 2.0v (stock for the Qimonda chips is 1.8v I think).

Gaming at 700/1900 with the stock cooler I was seeing about 70c with the case on and the fan set at 50% (Ambient was a cool 17c), but I have since fitted my Swiftech MCW60 and temps don't top 48c.

Thought I'd see what it would do with a slight increase in VGPU. Managed to get 840/2000/1900 perfectly stable at 1.25v (1.1v stock) and can bench at 840/2000/2000, but doesn't seem to give that much of an increase in performance over the stock 700/2000, so i'll probably take the mod off and game at 700/1900 to be on the safe side.
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Mod looks great. 840 on the core, thats like the highest I have seen. Shame about the ram.
 
840Mhz is pretty good, but seems to be about average for that voltage. Highest I have seen is over on vr-zone, where youngpro has clocked a GT to 998Mhz on the core with dry ice.
 
jonnyt1000 said:
Sad thing is, after more testing it's not actually 100% stable at 2000 on the RAM. 1900 is the best it will do with no artefacts. Another strange thing is that the RAM is already being supplied with 2.0v (stock for the Qimonda chips is 1.8v I think).
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Any chance you can give me a copy of the bios from your Zotac? Im experimenting with dif vendor bioses right now.
 
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