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Quote from: KiLLaMaN on Monday, May 17, 2010, 19:16:57 PM

Quote from: Spanky on Monday, May 17, 2010, 18:12:24 PM

Hmmm, I'm not sure what to think about that. The GTX is the older chip but it has more RAM. Glad it was successful and it's nice to see EVGA goes the equivalent or better route.

Yeah. The real pain is that I had to go out and buy another SATA cable because the GTX is about an inch thicker than the GTS and my old cable didn't reach. $10 for a fucking cable. I feel ripped off.

I played BC2 and it actually seemed to run better than on my old card.

Wish you would have posted before you bought it, I would have sent you one for shipping cost

Note on EVGA's RMA. Its amazing. Ive RMA'd 3 cards to them (all my fault) and gotten the the same model as I sent back in 2 weeks. I will only buy EVGA graphics cards for this reason. Guess I'm a bit of a fan boy with them

I know what you mean, their customer service is outstanding. I will always buy EVGA for my graphics cards. That is of course if I stick with Nvidia, ATI has been making some great cards at great prices.

Someone told me that he RMA'd an 8800GTX and they sent him a GTX260 

All my RMA's were self inflicted  :  to much overclocking, pushing them to hard for to long (f@h mostly) and they start to die

Yea, if the card works... I wouldn't worry about it. You have a better card so that's cool I would suggest something that I do though... Use EVGA Precision and create 2 profiles. The first would be severely underclocked at stock fan speed and then the second would be a stable overclock with 90% fan.

Example of mine:
Stock - 648MHz Core, 1188MHz Memory, 1459MHz Shader, 40% Auto Fan
Underclock - 490MHz Core, 895MHz Memory, 1095MHz Shader, 40% Auto Fan
Overclock - 720MHz Core, 1260MHz Memory, 1476MHz Shader, 90% Manual Fan

IMO, in the long term, the card's lifespan will be longer than a stock card always ran at stock settings. 60% fan speed might be good but remember, the lower the better. I've found that around 90%, the fan speed drastically changes it's noise/rpm ratio.