eVGA 8800GT for £137

[SiM]

Yup your card is overkill for your resolution... I would underclock it to keep temps down
ps. Save up your pocket money and buy a bigger monitor

[Blitzen]

it doesn't work like that; you send them your card (dunno if you pay for shipping) and then if any new card comes out within 3 months, you pay the price difference and give your invoice to them and then they send you the new card... you could prolly step to the 9800GTX - it ought to be coming somethime this month

it doesn't work like that; you send them your card (dunno if you pay for shipping) and then if any new card comes out within 3 months, you pay the price difference and give your invoice to them and then they send you the new card... you could prolly step to the 9800GTX - it ought to be coming somethime this month

Thats not how the step up work at all.

1. Register your current card on EVGA website
2. Select what you want to step up to (whats available on the program)
3. Join the queue
4. When you get to #1 you are sent an email by their step up team IF the card you want is available for immediate shipping.
5. Email them back or telephone with credit card details to pay the difference for the new card vs old one.
6. Send you old card, which YOU pay for to EVGA in Holland or Germany (cant remember at the moment).
7. Wait 10 days for your new card to arrive.

You certainly dont send you card out until they have your new one ready for shipping and you have paid the difference.

In the USA they cross-ship. They send the new one on the same courier that will pick up the old one.

EVGA USA, the same as Corsair USA, have far more respect and better customer service than their European counterparts.
Shame that but true!

[matty-hodgson]

wow... nice...

neither, actually... I wouldn't bother with an OC at that res - one 8800GT should be enough for anything you want to throw at it, let alone 2, without overclocking...

WITH overclocking... well, let's not go there .

Crysis actually gets a lower FPS with SLi than it does with 1 card! :S
so i'll just fit the card into his machine now, even though he's in france with school atm.

Yup your card is overkill for your resolution... I would underclock it to keep temps down
ps. Save up your pocket money and buy a bigger monitor

i've been looking at those Samsung Pebble ones, 'cause right now i've got a CRT 17" monitor

[matty-hodgson]

Thats not how the step up work at all.

1. Register your current card on EVGA website
2. Select what you want to step up to (whats available on the program)
3. Join the queue
4. When you get to #1 you are sent an email by their step up team IF the card you want is available for immediate shipping.
5. Email them back or telephone with credit card details to pay the difference for the new card vs old one.
6. Send you old card, which YOU pay for to EVGA in Holland or Germany (cant remember at the moment).
7. Wait 10 days for your new card to arrive.

You certainly dont send you card out until they have your new one ready for shipping and you have paid the difference.

In the USA they cross-ship. They send the new one on the same courier that will pick up the old one.

EVGA USA, the same as Corsair USA, have far more respect and better customer service than their European counterparts.
Shame that but true!

that sounds complicated!
what happens if i don't make it to the front of the que before the 90 days?
is that the deal finished?

[Blitzen]

Nope.
The deal continues.

YOu dont have to make it to the front of the queue. You do have to register the card and register the requirement for the step up before 90 days though.

As long as you are registerred for step up, it will be honoured, even if EVGA take a year.

[matty-hodgson]

what sort of card could i upgrade to?
when is the 9800GT released?
if i can save enough.. possibly get myself a nice monitor and a 9800GT

[-iceblade^]

don't think the 9800GT will be released any time soon... The 8800 is still pretty recent, after all. I know the 9800GTX is coming sometime soon, though

[matty-hodgson]

ooooo.. 9800GTX sounds nice!
going on the past few generations, it'll be somewhere like 90 - 100% better than the 8800GTX

i'd love that!!!!

[Blitzen]

ooooo.. 9800GTX sounds nice!
going on the past few generations, it'll be somewhere like 90 - 100% better than the 8800GTX

i'd love that!!!!

More like 15-20% if you are lucky

[matty-hodgson]

More like 15-20% if you are lucky

well the 8800 was twice as fast as the 7800, and the 7800 was twice as fast as the 6800..
soo.. if things work out like that we could be seeing 1 hell of a card here, but yeah, i'll agree.. we probably won't see a massive difference.

[AdvWar]

Considering the 8800 series and 9800 series are pretty much the same architecture, how could there be a massive difference?

[Ommid]

hi guys, local shop has the evga superclocked for 135 inc vat isnt that a better deal than this? it is on special offer

[Blitzen]

well the 8800 was twice as fast as the 7800, and the 7800 was twice as fast as the 6800..
soo.. if things work out like that we could be seeing 1 hell of a card here, but yeah, i'll agree.. we probably won't see a massive difference.

The 7800 wasnt twice as fast as the 6800. THe 6800GT was actually a very good card.

hi guys, local shop has the evga superclocked for 135 inc vat isnt that a better deal than this? it is on special offer

Which shop?
Name and number for it if available........ ta