Unboxing EVGA GTX 260

[Voodoo]

Dear All

below is brief introduction of my today's purchase,

My goal is not to show performance of this card, as many members have this card and they submitted its benchmarks,

i want to guide people who might be interesting in getting this card, as it was out of stock for a few weeks,

EVGA Part number written on the box and VGA is 896-P3-1255-AR, which corresponds to 576/1998 clocks and 111.9 GB/s memory Bandwidth,

However, after installing the card, i have discovered that its clocks are 626/2106 with 117.9 GB/s B.W., which corresponds to Superclocked model of this card, whose part number is 896-P3-1257-AR.

this is very interesting thing and i attached pictures of EVGA web pages of these cards,

i don't know whether it would be true for all EVGA GTX 260 available on galaxy or not, galaxy has not put web link of this card,

XFX GTX 260 is 1300/- more than EVGA, and its clocks are 680/2000,

 

[Necrokiller]

Congrats on your purchase. Overclock it more you can break 13k in Vantage easily. I think I got about 12.8k with my E8400.

But the resolution of the gaming benchmarks is disappointing. I hope you can re-run them on a higher resolution which will do the card some justice.

 

[sunny945]

voodoo very nice puchase brother
congrtz on your purchase very nice card

 

[ASKnASK]

Congrats man

OC it. It won't mind

 

[shujaswati]

Congrats dude.....do post benchies with high res...

 

[Bluff Master]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm, nice buy.

 

[Devastator]

Nice buy. You can never ever ever go wrong with EVGA.

 

[hammad800]

I feel really happy for ya that you got the gtx 260 superclocked edition and 'imma let you finish but GeForce GTX 295 CO-OP Hydro copper is the BEST CARD EVER :lol:http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=017-P3-1297-AR&family=Geforce%20200%20Series%20Family

 

[R3Z0N]

^ imma let you finish jokes never get old, anyway crongrats on the purchase, but dont mind me asking didnt you have a 4870 before did you sell it?

 

[JANASHEEN]

BRO CONGRATSSS!!!!!!!
and why u buy AGAIN?
and which u gave me its 128gb/sec 666/1200/2300

 

[AFQ]

u r lucky voodoo, pehle awesome chip of Q9400 and now this. (1)

@rezon
he keeps on changing things every week!!

 

[opethian]

marvelous sir usman ..
nice choice there
what ru ... some hardware reviewr??? known as ANANAD ...
or GURU

 

[AFQ]

@voodoo
u cahnge hardware so frequently, why dont u start writing reviews for PG.

 

[Syavash]

@ Voodoo congrats

btw you had HD4870 and now GTX260?

What's for tomorrow? GTX280?

 

[OmMeE]

Congrats Usman.... man OC that Q9400 and post scores

 

[Baber Kamal]

Oh great Usman bhai a very nice card u bought again .

U didn't tell me when we had chat on phone. Usman bhai now u may gift ur 9800gt to me . Just kidding

 

[abobobilly]

Mashallah .... A very decent purchase
Enjoy the gaming Life :wink2:

 

[Voodoo]

Thanks to all for appreciation/encouragement and nice feelings and comments

Overclock it more you can break 13k in Vantage easily. I think I got about 12.8k with my E8400. But the resolution of the gaming benchmarks is disappointing. I hope you can re-run them on a higher resolution which will do the card some justice.

my primary target was not benchmarking as i mentioned, however, i will try to post with overclocking,

---------- Post added at 08:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:10 AM ----------

didnt you have a 4870 before did you sell it?

yes, i had used 4870, however with new games and especially due to physx, it is time to switch to nvidia, although i am ATI fan

---------- Post added at 08:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 AM ----------

and which u gave me its 128gb/sec 666/1200/2300

yes, it was, however that card cannot be overclocked except a few MHz above your mentioned clocks, while EVGA card can reach easily to these clocks

---------- Post added at 08:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:14 AM ----------

U didn't tell me when we had chat on phone

at that time i didn't decide to purchase GTX 260

 

[digitalism]

A big congratzzzz Usman Bhai! Yeh achanak kya program ban gya Awesome card u bought there. Did u felt any difference between XFX GTX260 and EVGA GTX260 ?? I mean quality wise?

 

[Voodoo]

A big congratzzzz Usman Bhai! Yeh achanak kya program ban gya Awesome card u bought there. Did u felt any difference between XFX GTX260 and EVGA GTX260 ?? I mean quality wise?

thanks Zeshan bhai, it is long time i sold xfx gtx260,

however i feel that temperatures of EVGA version are lower and it is better overclocker,

For memory clock, xfx version did not reach 2400 mhz stable, but this one has reached 2500 mhz and 700 mhz core and i have checked 3dmark2006, however benchmark result is almost same, due to 3.6 ghz processor speed,