News - EVGA trots out a pair of overclocked GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards

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"Superclocked" and "For The Win" editions crank up EVGA's top-end offering.

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Cool. However I am not paying extra for someone to overclock my card for me... pfft.

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Originally Posted by nightkhaos

Cool. However I am not paying extra for someone to overclock my card for me... pfft.

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It never ceases to amaze me how people don't realise that these cards aren't just over-clocked, they're binned to run at this speed 24/7 and so are covered 100% under warranty at these speeds. You may find that the stock GTX 295 Co-Op editions don't run 100% stable at the FTW speeds, as the card is binned to run at the stock speeds and isn't tested at any higher.

This is maybe not so much the case with EVGA as they generally promote overclocking and such, but it's the general trend.

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Originally Posted by cobhc

It never ceases to amaze me how people don't realise that these cards aren't just over-clocked, they're binned to run at this speed 24/7 and so are covered 100% under warranty at these speeds. You may find that the stock GTX 295 Co-Op editions don't run 100% stable at the FTW speeds, as the card is binned to run at the stock speeds and isn't tested at any higher.

This is maybe not so much the case with EVGA as they generally promote overclocking and such, but it's the general trend.

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No. But you can usally get 95% of the FTW peformance for 80% of the price. Chip manufacture is also a lot cheaper than it used to be, so manufactures like nV can afford to to set the bar rather high on their products. Products that are "binned" to run higher don't mean as much as they did 5 or 10 years ago.

And besides, I bought a Single PCB just a week after they were first released, so I couldn't have got the ones that are stock overclocked. :(