not yet, actually my fan seems to be stuck at 100%. I tried downloading a bunch of different drivers, but still no luck. the fan/heatsink assembly is pretty well enclosed and I tried looking through the fins to see if I could find the fan connector, but without unscrewing the cover, I couldn't really tell. I'll try to work on it some more this weekend.

petty43 said:Pirate:

Check the link below. I read that the fan is very quite and has a 4 pin pwm. Have you had any luck with rivatuner? Seems like it should work. 8800gs

dealpirate said:not yet, actually my fan seems to be stuck at 100%. I tried downloading a bunch of different drivers, but still no luck. the fan/heatsink assembly is pretty well enclosed and I tried looking through the fins to see if I could find the fan connector, but without unscrewing the cover, I couldn't really tell. I'll try to work on it some more this weekend.


petty43 said:Pirate:

Check the link below. I read that the fan is very quite and has a 4 pin pwm. Have you had any luck with rivatuner? Seems like it should work. 8800gs

Yikes, I will be very disappointed if this is the case with mine. I returned an XFX 8800GS a month ago because the fan was 100% all the time (really noisy). Have you tried nTune?

For those looking for B&M. OOS in the Manhattan Beach (LA) location.

I purchased this card. I have played Lost Planet DX10 on it, runs really well, even at very high resolutions, but I did have to turn shadow detail down to medium in order get fps over 35 average. As far as the fan, I don't hear it.

If you purchased the Dell inspiron 530 deal a couple weeks back, it fits, I didn't even have to unplug the serial cable, was snug, but it fits.

Very favorable review with benchmarks and overclocking here.

scored 2 in Fry's of City of Industry. They seems to have pleny left on the shelf. It says limited one per person, so you have to bring your friend with ya or do the re-entrance trick. I also scored 2 crucial sodimm 667 mhz 12.99 after MIR.

Give you guys more details about this card.

1. Due to the fact that it only has 320mb of ram and 192bits memory bandiwidth, this card can't do the job right for gaming higher than 1280x1024 (unless it's some old game)
2. Evga card doesn't put their fan at consistant 100%, you can adjust the fan speed by using Rivatuner.
3. You have to register this card on www.evga.com to have the life time warranty.
4. Evga gives you 90 days step up option, that means you can trade in any card and pay the deficits within 90days direct to Evga (however, you can always get lower price elsewhere, it's not really that helpful)
5. $80 bucks for this card = great price for a descent mid range gaming card. Get this if you can
6. Evga has one of the best rebate system around, I receive my 5+ rebate check in less than 1 month of processing time.

my fault, i ll correct that

It's in Chinese, but here's a review with graphs showing various benchmarks between an 8800GS (stock clocked) compared to a 9600GT in many different games at several resolutions. Must use IE to load it, FireFox quits loading halfway through.

http://www.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/200802/25/20080225001_0.htm

GnatGoSplat said:Did anyone who ordered this online actually get it?
Mine was stuck in "In Process" for a long time despite being in stock even today. I finally decided to ask them what was going on, because I normally get my orders from Frys pretty quickly. I got this reply:

Got mine last week. Beautiful and a very quiet card. Gotta love eVGA and the value is amazing. It's currently paired with the E2200/ECS 945GCT-M $80 Fry's dealio from a few weeks back that's been BSEL modded to 2.93 GHz stable on an *OLD* Antec 350W PSU (old one with 20-pin ATX connector, no PCIe connector, and has the OLD AT-motherboard type connector). eVGA on stock "overclocked" speeds it managed a 3DMark06 (1280x1024 0xAA/0xAF) of 9586. OC'ed, it'll definitely go over the 10K+ mark.

$80 for CPU/MB
$3 for copper tape from Fry's
$75 AR & PG for 8800GS
$15-20 AR for 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2-800

You're easily sittin' under $200 USD for a CPU/MB/Memory/Videocard that can do 10K+ 3DMark06! HDD and case deals (like the Antec cases that come with Earthwatts PSU's for under $50)... And you're easily sitting under $300. Just add KVM!

Cheers,
Eemrek

GnatGoSplat said:Did you order your card online?
You didn't order that CPU/mobo combo online, did you? I'd be really upset if they offered a great combo online and I missed it. There is no Frys local to me for thousands of miles, unfortunately.

If you get really adventurous, you could try a 1333FSB mod! It's easy if you do the BSEL mod with tape, just leave the 1066 MOD intact, cover part of your tape with electrical tape to insulate, and then add tape for the 1066 to 1333FSB. I have my E4300 1.8GHz running at 3.0GHz on a Foxconn G33M with the 1333FSB BSEL mod and a slight 75mV boost for stability. I also have a Celeron 420 1.6GHz that runs at 2.67GHz @ 1333FSB at stock voltage.

Oh. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer. I ordered online on May 14th, 2008 @ 3:15 AM. It shipped the next day on May 15th without any issue.

I thought about the 1333 FSB mod, but I have the E2200 and not an E2180 or E2160. The multiplier on the E2200 is 11X meaning a 1333FSB BSEL mod would try to boot my E2200 at 3.66 GHz (11x333)... Something I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not with the ECS and poor outdated Antec 350W PSU. I'm just surprised it even works!

With the 1066FSB BSEL mod, my room temperature during the tests was about 65F/18C. Core's 1 and 2 were about 21C idle. ORTHOS for 12 hours, Core 1 and 2 never went above 43C at full-load (using SpeedFan). I was using stock Intel retail fans from some Intel Xeon 3065's I purchased earlier in the year. They're the same as the E2200 stock Intel retail fan but twice as high. (I did wipe the lame thermal gunk off the stock and use Arctic Silver 5 instead though).

Man. That E4300 is a GREAT value with the 9X multipler (9x333 for your 3.0GHz)... That's awesome.

EDIT: Oops. P.S. The MB/CPU combo was B&M only. Not on-line