IMO those are good for games with high res - where 512mb become handy :)
Price tag on those is pretty high :(
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IMO those are good for games with high res - where 512mb become handy :)
Price tag on those is pretty high :(
High?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooper
That is about half of the price of 7800GTX 512MB.
It is true that the GTX have 4 additional pipelines, one additional vertex shader unit and faster memory chips. If you can get two of these cards for the price of one 7800GTX 512MB card which one would you take?
Thats my setup right now, no problems, very stable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophy
I run my GT SLI + dual core 4 hdds and all that on an enermax liberty 500 watt. Dual 22a rails. Not sure why it works. My OCZ520 was on the verge of explosion with this setup.
stilt> 9k seems kind of bad, with a 2.8ghz dual core and a 527/1125 7800GT 256mb I scored 8.5k...
True.Quote:
Originally Posted by afireinside
So.. it costs like a GTX but it has 20 pipes. Hm, I think this thing is obsolete before even coming out - 7900GT will have MSRP of $299 USD very very soon.
doh :slap: I meant to ask what is the MSRP on these cards going to be. Later I saw what Stilt paid which should be lower once they hit the US casue we always seem to get stuff cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by SewerSide
i thought gainward declared bankruptsy and went out of buisness. They were not honoring warrantys anymore either
I've been playing with these new BLISS cards also. First thing I noticed was the fact the memory chips where positioned in an L shape which should cut down cost of production (the refference design has the mem chips plced in a semi-circle around the GPU).
The core is rather normal, 5 BLISS 7800 GT cards clocked around the 500 MHz mark on the GPU and the mem around 1400 MHz. Best I've seen is 510/1470 MHz. This is with stock cooling.
Regarding the VRM - efficency seems a little bit down as the card heats up quite a bit in that area compared to the refference design. But at least it prooves that the VRM wasn't the limmiting factor in reaching high OCs with the 7800 GT (random lok-ups at high freq rather than tons of artefacts) - this new VRM looks better than the old one but the OC problems are still there. :)
Anyway, the cards are nice and honour the Gainward brand... but did you guys see the Palit card? Same PCB design, half the memory. ;)
I call this the shooting yourself in the foot manuver... :D
GOD gainward cards are SO COOL, I wish they never pulled out of the US market :(
Nice looking card that , nice score to BTW
I'd buy a pair of these... ;)
PNY Technologies bought gainward, and in my eyes Gainward has never been the same :(
Hi could you send me the BIOS of your card?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stilt
xtremetheme@mvktech.net
I ordered the Non GLH Version here for 317€ (378$)
Shop lists it as 425Mhz/1050Mhz with 1.6ns RAM.
From your PCB pics it also looks like the card has the ADT7473 chip for fancontrol, which 7800GTX use.
Where are you guys buying these?
We have them available over here... 3rd card down...
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...0__Series.html
I can help you out getting some of the cards if you want... Price might be a little high you guys across the pond though.
I'd rather not pay for them if I don't have too. ;) Maybe I can snag a pair for review somehow, that'd be ideal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bennah
Hehehe, good luck if you get some cards... :D
@xtremetheme: I extracted the bios of the non-GLH version, maybe someone could get the GLH one?
Would be quite interesting to see if it's different in some way (clock speeds, sure, but maybe something else).
Stilt
Can you take picture of backside of the card? Voltage regulation particularly :)
Those are really cool cards. I hadn't seen anything on any tech sites on those either (big ones here in the US at least). Does that copper heatsink do any better at cooling the card than the standard heatsink?
Maybe tommorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by SF3D
Gainward has used very common components with these cards.
There is atleast LM358 and Richtek RT9214 chips on the back sides of these cards.
Bios sent :DQuote:
Originally Posted by xtremetheme
The soon to be released 7900GT is rumoured to be faster/cheaper than the 7800GT and so if Gainward could do the same trick and produce a 7900GT GLH with 512MB of RAM that might be a very nice buy indeed.
Regards
Andy
@mad: It should. The standard heatsink is so bad, it won't even keep the card stable without any oc ;) Even at 100% fan speed I get random freezes... it's just a tiny piece of aluminium.
Btw., this is how the non-GLH version looks:
http://www.forumdeluxx.de/gallery/da...08P1010371.jpg