Giving away my 8800GTS 512 ***WINNER ANNOUNCED***

Hey everyone, I recently upgraded my friend's computer by selling him my old 4870x2 for real cheap, and he gave me his 8800GTS 512 to either use in a new system, or to keep as a backup card.

Well, a few months have gone by and I can tell I will most likely never use it. With that being said it is a fairly decent card that still has some life left in it! Most games can be run on high, newer games on medium (1600X1200 and lower). It could also be used for PhysX I suppose, and folding.

I see that some people have decent rigs, but sometimes lack in the video card area.

The card is an MSI, and is an overclocked version, it has been used for a few years but is in great shape.
So, I want to give it away, all I ask is that whoever gets it pays the shipping via paypal. (probably less than 10 bucks I imagine) If you're reeeeeeeealy strapped for cash maybe, just maybe I will pay for shipping too.

Here are the regulations for getting the card:

1.) you have a very low-end card in your system such as Nvidia 7 series, ATI 8 series or lower.... or a card that you think is crappy regardless of the series number.

2.) you have, or are going to have a sufficent power supply to run this card. "Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 26 Amp Amps."

I would say that a high quality 500W or better should suffice.

3.) You do not have an obsolete CPU

sorry guys, if you have a P4 you're not getting this.

4.) you live in the United States

5.) You list your computer specs in this thread, and give me a very brief reason why you need this card!


Thanks for looking guys, the main idea of this give-away is to help spruce up someone's computer who is less fortunate, please do not lie about specs, and good luck!

I will decide the winner on Wed. November 4th.








EDIT: On a similar note, Sparky13 has decided to offer up his unused Rosewill 550W Power Supply, he will even pay for shipping, you can check out the thread here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ewill-550w




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Jeez, that is awesome man, a great deed of you.

Well, here are my specs.

Processor: Athlon X2 4200+ OC'd to 2.81GHz (soon to be replaced by a Phenom 2 940)
GPU: Nvidia (think its an EVGA, cant be sure) 7600GS
4GB of RAM

And I just upgraded my power supply to a Rosewill 630 watt. Its more than enough to run the card.

I'd love to use the card because I've been longing to upgrade the GPU for a very very long time, and I've finally decided to do it yesterday. Been looking at the Radeon cards, because while the 7600 still runs modern games, its just not cutting it anymore. I've just bought Borderlands and I'm even having trouble running it at 1024x768. Its come to the point where I either give up PC gaming, or upgrade, which is why this card will be very useful for me.

ILL TAKE IT!!!!

I have:

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2ghz
eVGA 7800 GT DDR3 256mb
2 GB Corsair RAM
600w Power Supply
Windows XP SP3

I bought this PC used because I am a gamer with a daughter now and the budget in no way can support a new rig. I live in Montana and will pay for shipping charges. Thank you for your consideration.

Raymond

I have an E5300CPU, and am gaming on integrated graphics. The integrated is horrible, being an nVidia 7050. I am forced to use external scripts to run my games, and I game in Direct-X 7. I do not strive for the top; all I want is to play my games decently.
I come from a line of old computers. I've never known anything to be on High Settings. I've owned three computers:

AMD Athlon 1ghz processor
nVidia 5200FX
256MB RAM

AMD Athlon 64 2ghz processor
Radeon x700
1GB DDR 400mhz RAM (currently my gaming rig)

2'nd one explained below.

I have always helped people on this forum, and I continue to do so.

I have never used any sort of graphics above an x700 graphics card, even in my new computer, I will be using an HD4670, and I can only use this computer for 2 days out of every 14, due to parental separation issues.

Spex;
E5300CPU
550W Corsair PSU ( I was planning on asking for an HD4650 for my Birthday, or possibly Christmas. But it'd be a bit tough, considering my parents don't like spending money on, "those darn video games!" )...which is why I pre-bought a PSU.
2x 140GB HDD.
2GB DDR667 single-channel RAM. (No-brand).
WinVista 32-bit.

I live in the United States (Ohio), and thank-you for considering my post.

*Also
To give you an idea of what I play on..
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In 640x480, using these scripts.
I struggle to get 40FPS.
*CS:S Pix

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http://i568.photobucket.com/albums [...] ns/ZM2.jpg

Just be happy, yo. Anything you have is more than 10x better than mine. With that knowledge, sleep well.

which was.....?

Very nice gesture. It makes moving on to new stuff so much easier (I feel sad retiring the old ones). I really should do that with my 2900XT (rather than letting it gather dust in the closet) but I'm lazy and I doubt there would be as much interest.

Ah, this brings back memories. It's good to see there are still real people among the consumerist masses.

yes, I will certainly consider you're cousin as a candidate.

Nice of you to give away 8800GTS, however I have to say the title of the thread is a bit misleading.

Stating "Giving away my unused 8800GTS 512" implies it has not been used at all. While it may be technically true that you never used it, it is still a used video card because it came from your friend's system.

Okay, I'm leaving this thread now before people start calling me a Grinch and toss lumps of coal at me.

i just recently upgraded my cpu to athlon II x4 620... am considering a gts250 for replacing this old old x1950gt 256mb that i had... i bought this when ati has nothing good to compete with nvidia, while nvidia was charging $500+ for a decent card... this still handles WoW fine, but i would like to catch up some new games... i'm sure your 8800gts would perform very very similar result to gts250!! my psu is 600w seasonic... it should be more than capable =]

my rig currently:

amd athlon II x4 620 cpu
asus M3A78-EM mothboard
sapphire x1950gt 256mb gfx card
2gb ddr2 ram
seasonic s12 600w psu
nzxt appollo case

Love to nab this card for my wife I'll gladly pay you for shipping as well. She's rocking an evga 7800 GT CO SE at the moment and its a tad lacking when she plays games at 1680x1050. Rest of the specs: Core2 duo E6400 2.13 oc @ 3.0, 4 gigs of Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1066 ram, on a MSI P6N Diamond 680i mobo. She's got a Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W way more than enough to handle a 8800 gts 512. I'm in the USAF and as an E4 money can be a little tight (especially during the holiday season) for the family of 4 that we have. So it'd be a nice holiday upgrade for her if you want to send it my way. Hit me up if you want to work out shipping or whatever. Thnx for offering it up either way.

Comp specs:

E6750, Dual core 2.66 I believe
2GB DDR2 RAM
nVidia 8400
500 GB HD idk what kind.

I don't know anything else really. This is an HP computer my dad bought for me 2 years back. It ran fine back then, but since having a 24" native 1920x1200... The 8400 does not cut it. I have a 500w PSU sitting around which my dad bought as a replacement for an old comp, I didn't install it as.. Well I don't need it at the moment.

I'm a CS student with no job, just full time student. All I do is play WoW since it's the only thing my computer can run at all, at a lower res for that matter, I've forgotten what it's at. I do want to play more games, I have Fallout 3 and Oblivion but obviously can't play it due to my computer.

I would like to have that GPU but there are probably other who could use it as well, decide how you will.

Congrats to whom ever gets it!

Sorry, :c. I wish I didn't have to either.

WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN.

And don't get my hopes up.

*My Theory*
By keeping your hopes in life down, you can never be disappointed. Therefore, there will be less things such as suicides, reduced crimerates, etc.
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Heck, Id be more than happy to pass on my HD3450 to someone that could use it if I was chosen for the 8800gts. Im sure someone could use it for movies if nothing else, which it does very well.

It is nice to see there are some nice people out there, I just bought an X38 motherboard and 2 5850s for my cousin for his birthday on the 10th, maybe I'll convince him to give away his old 8800 GTS 512s.

Before you say anything, it is not that nice of a gesture considering he is the only one that is not in my immediate family that is getting anything, hating your family is a cheap activity around the holidays.

Anyway, shadow definitely needs some love!

I remember playing quake 4 on a 6100 nVidia IGP *shivers*

Honestly, I'm not stressing on it too much, I plan on doing a giveaway once every month or so from here on out, so there will be a number of chances to get a nice piece of hardware.

I will announce who gets it tomorrow, at around 5PM EST. - annisman

EDIT**** I still haven't decided yet, it will be shortly before I announce tomorrow, you're not too late nuclearterror

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] 00gso-4670

Shadow can already afford a good card.

Well, you are an awesome guy for offering this up. I hope I am still in the running, Otherwise, I guess Ill save up for an HD 4670. Or wait for the prices on the 4770 to come down some more. Thanks for the opportunity!

+1

Hi guys. I was inspired by the awesomeness of this thread and started a similar thread in the CPU and Components (Power supplies) forum. I'm giving away my months old 550w Rosewill RP-2 PSU. Do any of you need a new PSU w/some more wattage? I know it's not the best on the market but I'd like it to go to someone who could use it and doesn't have the funds for a new PSU at the moment. I'll pay for shipping in the US. Feel free to head on over and post in my thread if you want it. Thanks.


-sparky13

It is absolutely better to pass on your old equipment than to let it collect dust and take up space, I actually have donated more than 3 entire machines to members of my gaming community in hopes of bettering their gaming experience. I will have to take a quick inventory of what I have left, not much in the way of GPU's unless you are interested in an old Rage128 Pro lol.

At work I end up tossing hard drives and older video/sound cards all the time, as well as the occasional P4 and Celeron CPU. Not going to hijack this thread, but I will start up a new one once I have an inventory of what I have kickin' around!

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ewill-550w

Here is the thread in the PSU forum. I LOLed at the *keeps the love going in an entirely inappropriate way*