XFX overclock’s The 7950GX2 to 570MHz

Mathew Everett 2 Jun, 2006 at 11:48am ET Article published in Tech

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   2 Jun 2006 ~ 12:41pm jradmin

   Sledgehammer70 wrote:

   With Nvidia saying it won't let its OEM's OC their newest 7950GX2. Despite that, some of them will come up with the faster cards. Nvidia wanted to be a little more conservative with the first batch of cards but XFX made a deal with the big, green firm.
   
   
   Source: The Inquirer

   
   
   Ya...for about 2 days.
   
   Then you end up RMAing 4 back like I've had to do.
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   2 Jun 2006 ~ 12:47pm Sledgehammer70 Yeah But you seem to just be having bad luck! I haven’t had any issues with XFX cards, I do acknowledge some are having issues with the 7900GT's, but overall XFX makes Kick butt products.
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   2 Jun 2006 ~ 12:52pm Garg So are these factory-OC'd cards really selling more units than cards sold with the reference clocks? I mean, we could OC them just as easily once we get them.
   
   I realize that there are people out there that aren't familiar/comfortable with overclocking, but what I'm wondering is if there's enough of those people for XFX to sell more 7950GX2s than their competitors.
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   2 Jun 2006 ~ 1:00pm jradmin

   Sledgehammer70 wrote:

   Yeah But you seem to just be having bad luck! I haven’t had any issues with XFX cards, I do acknowledge some are having issues with the 7900GT's, but overall XFX makes Kick butt products.

   
   Go take a look at the EVGA forums when they come back up and you can tell me how many others are having bad luck to =)
   
   The cards themselves are all made by the same company. Its the heatsinks, stickers, and OC's that are the difference.
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   2 Jun 2006 ~ 1:29pm Sledgehammer70 I'm talking XFX not EVGA
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   2 Jun 2006 ~ 1:41pm jradmin Cool cool.