8800GT 1GB - Worth The Price?

Hi, I'm in the U.K and I just purchased the 8800GT 1GB for £39.99 (£47.50 including postage and V.A.T) from Ebuyer Express. It's a refurbished unit.

Was it worth it? Somebody told me it wasn't, and that hurt me alittle. Sombody chear me up!

It's an Asus EN8800GT 1GB - Is this lower or higher then a normal 8800GT? I couldn't find any specs on it. I just persumed it was like a normal 8800GT, but with 1GB VRam.

O and I just found out thats its a barebone, nothing comes with it. Just the card. Bollocks, I should have read the small print

Still worth it? ^^

Not bad, but theres so many budget options with newer cards I would prefer a newer card that cost a bit more. Still not a bad deal on it. We all said it would be bad if you paid the 100 for it like you said earlier, this is a little more reasonable.

O, I bought this in ££ not $$. When I was mentioning 100 erilier, that was in $$. £50 is around $100USD's. But forget that for the moment, the important part is, the specs on the GPU.

Bollocks regarding the marketing thing. Anyway, that aside, an 8800GT is not an 8800GT. There are MANY LOADS of different ones with different clock rates etc etc. I'm just trying to figiure out if this is G92 or not. (or G82, which ever it was, I forgot now.)

Pheww... Your a life saver, you made my day.

Just a question though, you know that there are many different clock speeds right? Is that due to the fact that the factory overclocks them, or do they use completely different chips from the manufactorer? So if the 8800GT is @ 1800Mhz as standard, and XpertVision does theirs @ 1900Mhz, are they useing different chips? Or is it just factory overclocked?

If so, then I'm all good and I won't have to worry one bit. As I can just overclock the 1GB one I just recived. Correct?

As I said, an 8800GT is an 8800GT. Any difference in stock clocks are not that different, you won't notice any difference.
And, as I said, you can simply download Rivatuner...takes about 30 seconds, and set them to whatever you want to set them at, within reason.
It was always kind of foolish to spend extra money on factory overclocked GPU's, since you can very quite easily do it yourself.
Factory overclocks are hardly ever over a few mhz, and you can easily hit them, and surpass them with Rivatuner.
So, for what it' worth, the card you have bought is a least as good as the one you had.
Install it, go get Rivatuner, overclock it a good bit, and enjoy it.

They simply program the BIOS on the chip with a different clock rate, maybe a different style/type of fan, and some may even have slightly different brands or kinds of memory chips, but they all must be build from the exact same reference design set forth by nVidia.
The core logic, and the chipset itself are all exactly the same thing.

That is pretty easy to do!
First, go get Rivatuner, and install it.
Keep the memory and shader clock linked, you should be able to clock it to 675 onthe core, and about 1950 on the memory/shader clocks.

How about when I recive the card and install it, you help me via TeamViewer or somthing I wouldn't wanna go near somthing I've never done before on my own, when I see it once, then I'll know for ever.

PS: Once you OC the card, will it stick to that card so if I take it out and insert it into another machine? Or will it set itself back to defult when I discconect it from the original PC.

^ O wow, I thought it stays like that as it OC's the GPU. I thought there was a bios chip on the GPU itself? Is there no other way of making it permenant?

Don't get the 1GB version. The 8800GT/9800GT isn't powerful enough to use anywhere close to 1 full gigabyte.

Hell, even the more powerful 9800GTX/GTX+/GTS250 can't really use 1GB either.


You'd need to go to the level of a GTX260 or ATI 4870 for a GPU powerful enough to actually use ~1GB of video RAM.

I know that the 1GB can never be used, but it was going for the same price as the 512MB so I thought... What the hell, might as well.

Hi, so can I get one thing cleared up. Are you telling me that having an extra 512MB of memory (1gb) actually slows down the performance of the card? As in... The 256bit bandwidth has to carry out 1GB opposed to the useall 512MB which brings down the performance of the card? If this is TRUE, please tell me, but not of the top of any heads please, I need to confirm that it works that way.

I thought it will only carry what it could, for example... Only 400MB so it wouldn't bother with the rest, but if it really needs to shift a whole 1GB every time, then its a rip off card that will always underperform... correct?

I hope so Just a question, is it possible to save the settings for the GPU on lets say a flash drive so I can plug it into any computer along with the GPU and just start the OC program. Or does every PC need its own configuration.

There must be a not-so-hard way of actually overclocking the GPU itself without the need for software running.

By squeeze out, do you mean that in a good way, or a bad way?

For some strange reason, the 512 performs a few frames per second better in 70% of games.

http://en.expreview.com/2007/12/30 [...] 9F.html/16

K, I didn't read the article, but if that is direct quote from the article, I would take it with a grain a salt. Looks to me like they don't even know the difference between the core clocks and the memory clocks. 8800's are known in the overclocking world to overclock quite nicely. But....there is always a chance to get a card that may not simply be up to par. But I am not holding any faith at all in that article^

Anyone? ^^

I have a same day return to base warrenty if the item is not of my needs. So I can switch it for somthing else when it arrives.

The extra 512mb is useful for higher resolutions (normally around 1920x1200 and above).

In cards with smaller memory (ie 512mb) will become saturated at higher resolutions. This is where there isnt enough onboard memory to hold the all the textures needed and often ends up in skips and jumps while playing especially when turning quickly (in first person) etc...

If youre playin at resolutions at ABOVE 1920x1200 you may see improvement over the 512mb card depending on how demandning the game is.

Also £40 is not bad at all for this card. It STILL plays todays games fairly well on its own.

The diff in performance will be negligable.

Stick with your 1gig. Newer games are coming out that are more demanding u may need that extra 512mb even at lower resolutions.

New cards (ie 5870) are coming out with 1gb+ for a reason!

I dont think thats true.

More likely it WILL be able to push the full 512 just not the FULL 1gig.

Well MAYBE in the future I'll upgrade to a 26" HDTV, but other then that the 1GB is useless aparently. But moving on from this, as I've changed my mind, I might as well keep the thing.

Regarding keeping it OC'd. Is there no easy way of flashing the Bios chip on the card itself so it stays overclocked like factory ones are?

Thanks.