EVGA 9800GX2 Unboxing and Benchmarks

[AuDioFreaK39]

Haha, that made me crack up.

As I was scrolling down the page and looking at the pictures: "Nice, nice, nice, ohhh noes, shoulda bought a PS3 instead."

Lol, off topic, but I got my PS3 on launch day And yes, I went through the riot and the fights and I ended up buying 2 and selling one on eBay.

*UPDATE*

Lmao, okay here they are you guys, first results...and you guessed it, they suck! Thanks to my Celeron.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5834016

[speedfreak86]

Lol, off topic, but I got my PS3 on launch day And yes, I went through the riot and the fights and I ended up buying 2 and selling one on eBay.

*UPDATE*

Lmao, okay here they are you guys, first results...and you guessed it, they suck! Thanks to my Celeron.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5834016

Wow! That processor really kills the score...here was mine from the other thread: http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

Still having overclocking problems...here is mine overclocked to 730/1825/1100-->http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

As you can see, not much better than the first.

[AuDioFreaK39]

Wow! That processor really kills the score...here was mine from the other thread: http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

Still having overclocking problems...here is mine overclocked to 730/1825/1100-->http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

As you can see, not much better than the first.

Interesting to see that your SM 2.0 score took a drop when you overclocked the card. I'm guessing this is still a driver issue.

[boomstick68]

Looks like you guys have a $600 headache! But hey, it looks pretty installed!

[speedfreak86]

600 dollar headache? Looks like I got exactly what I paid for. Overclocking is never a promise. I still got more than 5K in 3dmark06 over the 400 dollar card I used to have.

[fornowagain]

Wow! That processor really kills the score...here was mine from the other thread: http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

Still having overclocking problems...here is mine overclocked to 730/1825/1100-->http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

As you can see, not much better than the first.

Have you tried the 173.67 drivers? The overclock 700+ issue seems to be common. Wonder if its the 174.53's or if the cards throttling.

[speedfreak86]

No, I didn't try any older drivers and won't have a chance to until next week as I will be out of town for the holiday. I will give it a shot sunday night and let you know. I did not notice the cards throttling though. I set the fan to 100% and it is pretty loud, but it blends right in with all the fans I already have going anyway.

[Delirious.]

Heads up. I purchase two of these and one was bad. It only ran on one gpu and the scores were terrible. Something like 12,000. I uninstalled and reinstalled the card. Same thing. I removed the card a second time and put the second card in and WOW. got over 18,000 at stock in vista. It eventually overclocked over 19,000.

I put the first card back in and the same thing. It was a bad card. I didn't change a thing between cards. two gpu showed up in the device manager and everything for the first card. Don't know what's up but mwave sent me a second card. I get it this afternoon.

I used driver 174.53