EVGA 8800GT O/C

[Capper]

I've never been an advocate of overclocking video cards. The cooling is usually inadequate, and the hardware very fragile......overclocked cards crap out fairly often, and fairly quickly.

Awhile back, companies stopped bundling games with their cards, and instead, to make their cards stand out, started overclocking the hell out of certain cards.....but then there was a big deal where cards were being RMA'd at incredible rates.......it got to the point where NVIDIA put their foot down and made their partners scale things back.

Personally, if you want to improve performance, overclock the CPU instead.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Capper

I've never been an advocate of overclocking video cards. The cooling is usually inadequate, and the hardware very fragile......overclocked cards crap out fairly often, and fairly quickly.

Awhile back, companies stopped bundling games with their cards, and instead, to make their cards stand out, started overclocking the hell out of certain cards.....but then there was a big deal where cards were being RMA'd at incredible rates.......it got to the point where NVIDIA put their foot down and made their partners scale things back.

Personally, if you want to improve performance, overclock the CPU instead.

I don't know, I think the 8800GT is a very capable card, not as flaky as the 7900's for that matter. Besides, it's a free boost, with virtually no downside if cooled properly.