discussion NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Review Comment Thread

[heflys20]

Name your sources or I call poor reporting and FUD.

I am sick and tired of sites like KitGuru and SA destroying the legitimacy of technology reporting.

LOL. I really don't know much about that site, so I'll take your word on their validity.

Their were also some guys, supposedly, saying the same thing on Chiphell. I don't speak Chinese, so I can't verify the legitimacy.

Here's the supposed topic though:

Never mind, the link was acting crazy.

 

[Fudd Rucker]

The problem is I already purchased GTX 480 once, thinking it was it, superclocked, premium price with taxes and everything, sold it immediately because it was pos, lost $100 on resale. Now they are telling me, oops sorry, this is the real Fermi card. It kinda feels weird buying the same card twice, I feel violated, maybe wait till next summer for Kepler.

How so?

 

[_dangtx_]

guys, this stuff belongs in the rumours section, you know better.

having said that, amd has but to up the 6870 specs by a healthy 25-30% and voila.

 

[heflys20]

guys, this stuff belongs in the rumours section, you know better.

I didn't even know there was a rumor section.....:doh:

 

[belgolas]

Well seeing as AMD hasn't released a single super power hungry GPU in a long time I highly doubt they will beat it. Surprise me AMD.

 

[heflys20]

Well seeing as AMD hasn't released a single super power hungry GPU in a long time I highly doubt they will beat it. Surprise me AMD.

Unfortunately, we won't know until Dec 13th.....Damn, I was so set on the Nov 22.

 

[MpG]

Urgh. Apparently the only EVGA cards that qualify for their Step-up program are the ones with a limited lifetime warranty. And apparently my GTX460 only comes with a two year warranty. :blarg: Shame... this version of the HydroCopper looks pretty promising.

 

[mikellini]

Urgh. Apparently the only EVGA cards that qualify are the ones with a limited lifetime warranty. And apparently my GTX460 only comes with a two year warranty. :blarg: Shame... this version of the HydroCopper looks pretty promising.

Since when did they sell cards without a lifetime warranty? That blows!

I went with MSI this time because I have a theory... EVGA is already selling SC and FTW cards, meaning they're binning chips. MSI isn't yet, so one could assume that by buying a reference card, you'd have a slightly better chance of getting one with good overclocking capabilities than if you bought a reference EVGA card, right? Well that, and EVGA was sold out... :bleh:

 

[sswilson]

MSI certainly is selling "SC" cards... might not be clocked quite as high, but they've got their OC line so I suspect they might be binning them.

I'm kinda pleased with their Cyclone cooler though.

 

[Soultribunal]

Since when did they sell cards without a lifetime warranty? That blows!

I went with MSI this time because I have a theory... EVGA is already selling SC and FTW cards, meaning they're binning chips. MSI isn't yet, so one could assume that by buying a reference card, you'd have a slightly better chance of getting one with good overclocking capabilities than if you bought a reference EVGA card, right? Well that, and EVGA was sold out... :bleh:

PNY and Zotac have Lifetime on everything but the GTS450 I believe.

But yeah, EVGA I don't know what is up with them. I have a Pair comming and they are 2 year only. Ahh well with the way GPU tech happens these days, thats all the warranty I'll need.

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