Toms has just revealed that ocz is now makeing their own version of the 8800 gfx cards. According to ocz, the hand select the cards to make them more overclockable. This is going to be interesting, as ocz is known to bring quality at an affordable price.

Any thoughts?


the link
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/12/29/ocz_8800_gtx/

I think they'll be a nice adition to OCZ's line-up, tough I think they should have gone with some innovation on it (maybe a custom hsf).

They might be quite a bit more expensive than the others on market (hand picking will probably make the availability quite low - unless they get really cheap asian labor to work 18 hours a day in order to have tons of cards available).

Cant wait to see how they stack up to evga, which is my preference when it comes to nvidia cards. would like to see some factory overclocks from them as well...I have always liked those.

Best,

3Ball

Oh well, i like OCZ but i already bought a BFG 8800gtx and adding another here soon. Should be nice cards though. OCZ is a good company with great products and even better support.

Yep thats nice to knoe that they will be hand picking the card insted of O/C ing just any old sample. And i would like to see how these fair aginst other O/S versions like the XXX and the W/C BFG 8800

They should be great overclockers, as OCZ is using some great memo chips.

Also, from what I heard from OCZ, they intend on bringing some interesting stuff after this first release.

hmm, well I personally like xfx more than evga when it comes to gfx cards, they oc the cards higher, so you don't have to, meaning you get to keep your warranty

I agree on the memory, ocz does a good job of bring performance to an affordable level

This is going to really interest me, because I don't think the other big names are going to be happy about this, because next thing you know, ocz will be offering a good motherboards at an affordable level too

I'm excited because OCZ is a pretty big name in computer parts and hand-picked factory overclocks = good, although I shudder to think about the price of these cards. Hopefully OCZ will bring some great values to the market.

It will be very interesting indeed. Be very hilarious if they dont work well with Asus boards like their ram doesn't most of the time...

Yeah,I bought their ram(2sets) and 3 psu's .Lemme make a prediction.More high pricing and soon to be less support. invariably happens to all companies who get the fat head,and expands into many diff. product lines.(rma wise,look how many hoops they make you jump through now )In their defense though (OCZ)I know that there is alot of ass@#$% people that take advantage of their(generous) warranty service that caused this.you see them (same type) idiots posting their stupidity at New egg reviews.

Well, see, you can't necessarily blame ocz for the asus problem. The problem actually isn't with compatibility, the problem actually is from the very specific IC (not quite sure, but they are not promos, as they can do 500mhz+, guessing a less binned Micron IC). The problem actually comes from the fact that their JDEC standard requires the ram to run at 2.1volts for stability. In general, the easiest fix is that you only put in one stick at a time to raise the voltage in the bios. Usually that works, but sometimes you have to buy some cheap $20 value to bump up the voltage to 2.1 to get it running, as the qulity is there, its just that asus mobos are set to run auto @ 1.8 volts and not a more stable 2.1.

Amen to that. Sometimes I can't even believe how incredibly wrong the people that do newegg reviews are.

You won't believe what some of those idiots say, here's something I had posted in a different thread

I think I have already achieved that with am2, that guy paid a bit too much for 3mhz

and here's some for the presler extreme

who owuld buy this when the conroes have already been released?

that's funny, people actually think its defferent from the pentium 4 northwoods ( or whatever the 65nm was)

that person is just plain stupid

ha! I almost cried

this is great, you really should see how stupid some of the reviewers @ newegg are

Oh God I love that last one!

that person is just plain stupid

ha! I almost cried

this is great, you really should see how stupid some of the reviewers @ newegg are

Hahahaha, these two are the best.

Here's a good one that involves the 8800GTX