EVGA 7800GT $360 After $40 rebate + Free 939 NF4 SLI mobo

eVGA Geforce 7800GT 256-P2-N518 Video Card - Retail Be sure to check off the combo box to get the mobo.

The rebate is in effect for a while so better deals may be coming. The mobo may not be the best in class but you might be able to sell it off or use it in a mild build. Tip of the cap to FW for the deal.

EDIT: Sold out in just a few hours. They had 30+ when I first posted. Not surprisingly they went fast.

10/28 Edit This deal is back. Although no $40 rebate so $400 instead of $360Here is the direct link to NewEgg.

10/28 Only! TigerDirect also has this deal with an additional $20 rebate and no sales tax to those who might have to pay to shop with the Egg in CA and NJ.

12/16 Update: Now just $349 less $20 EVGACPL coupon code drops the combo to $329! Register your card with eVGA and get Quake 4 free.

I'm still looking for some solid benchmarks with this card. Any idea how well these things work?

These won't clock higher than any other standard reference design, and its all luck of the draw from GPU to GPU.

Reveiw @ Techgage

I like the performance gain for BF2 running SLI. At this price, why not buy two? :D

Auto-detecting at close to 500 on core. Lucky?

thanks for the info...... it appears this card is quite superior to the X850XTPE for just a few dollars more..... I'm gonna have to rethink my purchase of a new card.

Looks like a good buy. I'd like to upgrade to the 7800 series.

came today. Very well packaged. (HUGE box) Videocard was box inside a box inside a box.

Dang. Both my orders are still in transit. One combo from NJ. They split my other combo between NJ(mobo) and CA(7800) warehouses.

where is the combo box at? i only see the video card with the rebate nothing showing a free mb?? i gues you snooze you loose!!!

peace perc,

Yeah the deal was done in just a few hours. I think a version of it will return when the mobo comes back instock. The rebate will be active until the end of the month. I just wonder if NewEgg will take $50 off the MSRP next time. The EVGA site had the same deal but no rebate, no free shipping and full MSRP. ZZF and Monarch also have done a version of this deal.

Too bad more XS members didn't get in on this deal. I've always wondered why this section wasn't more active and how it could be a better resource for members. A "deal alert" auto-email based on keywords in the title would be a cool feature. Come to think of it, that might be a good feature for all sections.

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came today. Very well packaged. (HUGE box) Videocard was box inside a box inside a box.

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Final box also had foam pads on four corners and plastic clamshell inside. Overkill? My split order is still in transit but at least I have one combo to play with this weekend.

Big wildcard on this mobo (built by Jetway) will be the max HTT. Seems as though I've seen some unimpressive ones but Anandtech got their Jetway to 300+ easily. BTW my first mobo is revision 2.2.

Mine is 2.2 too, and yeah I found it funny how they packed the retail box videocard with the hard drive style foam corners.

Early testing on the mobo is right in line with what I'm reading on the EVGA boards. I've got it stable at 244HTT 1:1 with my OCZ TCCD 2.5-3-3-7 1T but at 250 it a no go. I threw a divider at it to eliminate the memory as the problem but its losing its mind at 260. This is with the E04 bios.

Outside of the mediocre right out of the box OC, I'm left with some other initial impressions:

+ Green PCB. Its so old school I was startled by it.
+ Power and reset switches right on the board.
- CMOS jumper isn't positioned next to the battery. The USB jumper is. I'd be embarrased to admit how many times I tried to reset the bios with the USB jumper.
- Northbridge cooler is super cheap. Although I don't think its holding up the OC party.
- The CPU bracket and back plate are non-standard so I had to pull the one off my DFI to mount my water cooling.
- Memory settings in bios are minimal. The divider setting is such you can see the actual memory speed without consulting a chart, calculator or straining your brain, but with the limited OC action, it won't get much work.

There was no way this mobo was going to be a world beater for this price, but its seems like a decent board. Maybe its just a bios revision away from higher OCs but I'm thinking its more likely I'll be packaging these boards into game rigs for people on my Xmas list.

I was close to buying that package but didn't. I can't figure out how Anandtech got the results they did. How do the 7800gt's compare to the 6800gt's you were using?

Its still sitting in the box. I'm testing the mobo with my trusty x800XL. Lol. I'll test a bit when get the second video card arrives next week. Don't have much time right now since lately I'm spending a lot of time at work. I don't think there will be any suprises with the 7800GTs. Once I figure out how/what kind of water cooling I'm going to use on them, I'll get down to some serious benching. I might actually wait until I get my Opteron 939 to try and crack my 12K 3Dmark '05 personal best. Aren't you suppose to be trying to find me an Opty Mr. DealMaster? :slap: Get me one as nice as that X2 you found. ;)

@Lithan - Can you work on some results that'll make me hang my head in shame. Then I can blame my results on my poor OC skills. :woot:

Does anyone know why they seem to get some AMD cpu's over in eastern Europe before we get them in the US? One dual core is all I want, I want to try out a 144.

Crazy deal though, let us know if anyone notices it comes back, I would jump on it. :)

Still not making much headway on the HTT, but at least now I finally cracked 250 with ClockGen and a Tweaker adjustment on the TREF.

http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/3161/250x94vp.jpg

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=38999

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Its still sitting in the box. I'm testing the mobo with my trusty x800XL. Lol. I'll test a bit when get the second video card arrives next week. Don't have much time right now since lately I'm spending a lot of time at work. I don't think there will be any suprises with the 7800GTs. Once I figure out how/what kind of water cooling I'm going to use on them, I'll get down to some serious benching. I might actually wait until I get my Opteron 939 to try and crack my 12K 3Dmark '05 personal best. Aren't you suppose to be trying to find me an Opty Mr. DealMaster? :slap: Get me one as nice as that X2 you found. ;)

@Lithan - Can you work on some results that'll make me hang my head in shame. Then I can blame my results on my poor OC skills. :woot:

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Cpu comes on thursday, then I'll see what I can make it do. I suspect the problem is no good bios though... so you'll need to get a hold of a bios modder to see some real results.

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Cpu comes on thursday, then I'll see what I can make it do. I suspect the problem is no good bios though... so you'll need to get a hold of a bios modder to see some real results.

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I was thinking about trying the Jetway bios, but I seem to recall someone trying that and their mobo stopped posting. I'll have two boards so I might be able to read up on hot swapping the bios chips and be able to restore the native bios if something goes wrong. Of course that'll be after I test the second board. Just need to confirm at least one successful bios swap. At that point I'm sure my curiosity will get the upper hand on my judgement and I'll do the deed. :p:

Do jetways do any better HTT-wise in practice?

Haven't seen any threads on the XS for the Jetway. All I've seen is the Anandtech review.

Anyone know how I can read temps in windows with this board? Just hooked it up and testing now... but temps were insane in bios (50*C @ stock with big typhoon).

I've been using Jetway Myguard MBM software. Temps in bios look good though right? I never even looked on th CD for any MBM software. Think I read about the Jetway MBM on the Anand thread. You can see part of Myguard MBM in my screenie. I though the DFI MBM was ugly, Jetway has topped them. :)

Well, either board or ram tops out at 240. (Ram/board topped on at 250 with my dothan/p4c setup... so could be the ram... but I suspect it's the board. I'll test in Memtest later to verify (Pass memtest, but not stable windows = 99.9% certainty it's the board.) This is much worse than expected. I might have to sell this to a non/moderate overclocker and get a dfi. Might look into a jetway bios first and see if those help overclocking any.

Off topic: can current DFI ultra-d's still be unlocked for SLI?

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Well, either board or ram tops out at 240. (Ram/board topped on at 250

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Plenty of people are saying this board is picky about memory and the Polygon over at Rebel's Haven is saying any 2x512mb set won't go over 250. 2x256 stays at 1:1 over 300HTT.
http://www.rhcf.com/sisubb/ultimateb...pic/14/12.html

I dropped a 133 divider on my TCCD and I think this is what Anand must have done on their review of the Jetway.

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/4...7166div6xa.jpg

Hopefully a bios revision or hack will resolve this problem. Makes me want to try 2x1gig. Maybe I'l have to drop a 100 divider on it. Lol. Have to use Clockgen to do the final HTT setting since even with the divider 260+ in the bios is a no boot.

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Off topic: can current DFI ultra-d's still be unlocked for SLI?

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The rumor I've been hearing is no.

Well Ive got 2x1024 so I'm just pretty screwed then I guess. I've gotten prime stable up to 270 with mem on 166 divider. Didn't try higher because thats as high as I plan to take my chip (3200+ e6, 2600@1.55, 2700@1.7)

Well not "screwed" since it was free. :)

This board just strikes me as a budget gaming board not a bencher. As a starting point for a budget game rig, this combo is still a killer. Although I don't know why they didn't use the non-SLI version of the mobo to package with the card since its unlikely many budget rigs will sport two video cards. Along with that budget game rig most would opt for as much memory as possible, rather than high speed premium memory, so not being able to run 1:1 on an OC might be a moot point for the budget gamer, if they care to OC at all.

I'm going to take my old 6800GT pair and team them with one of these mobos. I'll save my pair of 7800GTs for the one my DFIs until the revised DFI NF4 comes out.

I'd suggest you wait until the new DFI SLI mobo comes out rather than buying an Ultra-D that might not mod, or the old DFI SLI. In the meantime keep thrashing around on the EVGA. Maybe its only a bios mod away from 250+ HTT 1:1 with 2x1gig. :D

I'm working right now on getting 166 divider to run 314HTT. I should bust out the other mobo, but I'm sure there won't be much difference. On Monday its time for some Opty action. :woot:

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/1...7166div5ar.jpg

Thought I should try out my Patriot 2x1gig set to see if the 250HTT problem got worse as memory size increased. It doesn't seem to be a problem. My 2gig set actually beat my TCCD 2x512mb set in SuperPi. Might have been the trfc adjustment I made. Previously I had just left it at its default setting.

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/7...v2x10240zp.jpg

Man, this deal needs to come back =(

Hey Gundamnit, did you get your opty and put it in the eVGA mobo? I am getting a Opty 165 and will try it out on my eVGA once Newegg rma's it back to me. (Dead PCI-E slot).

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Hey Gundamnit, did you get your opty and put it in the eVGA mobo? I am getting a Opty 165 and will try it out on my eVGA once Newegg rma's it back to me. (Dead PCI-E slot).

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Yes. I did and put on single phase as well just to test it out. I tried my 148 CABYE 0528 and it ran but nothing special as far as OC. Well under the DFI. Post your results in the stickied Opty dual core thread please. Bottom line for the EVGA - Actual memory speed can not exceed 250 so you'll have to run a divider, and HTT is crapping out at about 314 although YMMV. That should give you enough to get what looks like an average OC for DC Opties - but I'm guessing the EVGA will be a step or two behind the DFI.

Im very tempted for this. I really need to update my athlon XP setup. Regardless if its at 2.6ghz, its still slowwwwww.

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Yes. I did and put on single phase as well just to test it out. I tried my 148 CABYE 0528 and it ran but nothing special as far as OC. Well under the DFI. Post your results in the stickied Opty dual core thread please. Bottom line for the EVGA - Actual memory speed can not exceed 250 so you'll have to run a divider, and HTT is crapping out at about 314 although YMMV. That should give you enough to get what looks like an average OC for DC Opties - but I'm guessing the EVGA will be a step or two behind the DFI.

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Thanks for the reply.

I just ordered the OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K (2 GB kit). I figured it was either get a better board and use the Corsair Value Select (1 GB) or invest in some RAM that I will use in all my future builds.

I hope eVGA steps up the bios and makes this board more overclockable.

The eVGA deal is back at the egg. Yestersay it was $359, today it is $379, but that's still $80 cheaper than it was when it 1st came out a couple mo's ago. Sale ends tommoro :/

eVGA 256-P2-N518 Geforce 7800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail - $379

eVGA 133-K8-NF41 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail - Free

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The eVGA deal is back at the egg. Yestersay it was $359, today it is $379, but that's still $80 cheaper than it was when it 1st came out a couple mo's ago. Sale ends tommoro :/

eVGA 256-P2-N518 Geforce 7800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail - $379

eVGA 133-K8-NF41 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail - Free

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Now just $349 and register your card with eVGA and get Quake 4.

12/16 Update: Now just $349 less $20 EVGACPL coupon code drops the combo to $329! Register your card with eVGA and get Quake 4 free.

i got the very first time they offered the combo, i have 2 x 1gb gskill cas2,3,2,5,1T ram in mine running cas3,4,4,8,2T 250fsb 1:1 set at 249 but says 250 in cpu-z and everother program, so i guess it is off by one in the bios.

i have a opty 148 cabye at 11 x 250 for 2.75ghz , prime stable for 16 hours.

i habe tried tons of different ram, and no 1gb sticks will go over 250, 512mb usuallu will do alittle better, and 256mb stick seem to no problems at all, like anybody uses 2 x 256mb anymore.

i have not ried tighter timings, but 2t is mandatory with 2 x 1gb, i have booted with 1t 200fsb, but it fails prime in less than a hour, test have shown 2 x 1gb is only good for 1t up to about 187fbs max, which sucks.

all these weird problems really don't hurt the performance very much, ram bandwidth differenc is huge, like 1000 to 1500 with 2t, but 3d mark 05 only goes down like 7 points, 03 only like 125 points, and 01 has a significant drop of like 5%, so this will have little effect on gameing performance.

I missed it..... COME BACK!!!!! :(

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I missed it..... COME BACK!!!!! :(

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what are you talking about? they still have the combo deal, but it's back up to $379...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130238

Also, please note that this is the model 256-P2-N518 which has speeds of 445/1070 out of the box.

the 256-P2-N517 does 470/1100 out of the box, but doesnt give you the combo deal.