Thread: Upgrading the box need a G-card

Firedog,

Most times it's slight overclocks of either the GPU or the RAM. If you select multiple cards you can do the comparison on Newegg and it'll generally show you those sorts of things.

Depends. Here's my scenario.
The EVGA GTX285 and GTX285 SC (Superclocked) were both available when I built my computer March 2009. The SC edition was only about 5-10 dollars more for a slight overclock, so I pretty much said... why not.
It comes at the SSC clocked frequency (even higher) with stock (non-clocked) fan speeds. I didn't pay attention to this until my card starts to overheat =P
I think my case was a fluke though.

Some cards overclock easily. I can't talk from an ATI perspective because the last ATI card I owned was an AGP 9700Pro. However, if you don't want to worry about damaging your hardware with overclocking but want faster performance, then by all means buy the faster clocked cards. If you're comfortable O/Cing the cards and say have a water loop, buy stock and o/c yourself. I used this philosophy when i bought my i7 920 intending to O/C it to 3.0 or 3.2 Ghz.

I purchased this card The XFX 5870 XXX edition I have had it for about a month with no problems. OCed NVIDIAs are a hit or miss affair, I had 2 9800 GT SC card that worked fine, but that was the second generation of G92 cards with a smaller die (45nm I think). I have also gotten oced NVIDIA cards that never worked right. I would say if you want an OCed card go with ATI.

-H