Gainward Video Cards

[TheGreatSatan]

Would anyone be able to help me get a Gainward video card? I love their "Golden Sample" 560 Ti and the 570 Phantom with the two fans, but I cannot buy them in the states.

I know Palit own their company, but Palit sucks. So a Palit card won't do. It's just like how OCZ owns PC Power & Cooling, but OCZ isn't all that great.

Can someone tell me what would it cost if I paypal'd you the money on both cards? I'm not getting both, I just want to know they'll cost me, so I can choose.

Please help!:santa:

[crenn]

At one of the stores I go to:
Gainward GTX560Ti Golden Sample AUD$267
Gainward GTX570 Phantom AUS$369

Prices don't include shipping to USA.

[OvRiDe]

Wow.. looks like they are only available outside of the US now. I would imagine they are doing something where Palit is their US brand.

Anywho.. I don't see anything special about the Golden Sample cards that you can't get from Gigabyte or MSI... but the Phantom series look pretty sweet. I don't think I have seen any other manufacture make them like that.

[Cale_Hagan]

you can get them shipped from some websites based in the uk directly to the usa... http://www.airetechit.co.uk/e-shop/int/ROW/products.php?25517&currency=USD&livemode=1 :whistler: first link on google? )(sds

[AmEv]

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[d_stilgar]

you can get them shipped from some websites based in the uk directly to the usa... http://www.airetechit.co.uk/e-shop/int/ROW/products.php?25517&currency=USD&livemode=1 :whistler: first link on google?

Generally, companies will charge an arm and a leg in shipping. Often you can get lower rates from someone here on the forum shipping it some ultra-cheap method.

[Konrad]

Seemingly unavailable in Canada. NCIX USA carry these items.

[TheGreatSatan]

you can get them shipped from some websites based in the uk directly to the usa... http://www.airetechit.co.uk/e-shop/int/ROW/products.php?25517&currency=USD&livemode=1 :whistler: first link on google? )(sds

Thanks! +Rep

Wow, those are pricey!

[SXRguyinMA]

Thanks! +Rep

Wow, those are pricey!

Well it is an Nvidia card, that's to be expected :whistler:

[Twigsoffury]

those Msi lighting editions are wickedly fast.


sure they're overclocked, but they'll overclock way more then what they come as.

[Konrad]

I'm not so sure about that. My (limited) experience is that all those ATI/AMD and nVidia chips get binned and clocked at the factory; they're packaged onto the highest bracket products they can reliably run, overclocking them gives little or no performance gain.

Or maybe I've just been unlucky when buying cards.

[Twigsoffury]

I'm not so sure about that. My (limited) experience is that all those ATI/AMD and nVidia chips get binned and clocked at the factory; they're packaged onto the highest bracket products they can reliably run, overclocking them gives little or no performance gain.

Or maybe I've just been unlucky when buying cards.

???

I'm at 960mhz core 1400mhz memory on my ATi 5770 and its been slowly creeping faster as i go.

up from 800/1000mhz

Sure it took some tricks and some ramsinks on the top memory, but its working and out classes any other 5770 i've come across.

put it this way

started out making 625 points on unigine benchmark. Now i score 1014 after overclocking my CPU / memory / FSB / HT bus /video card.




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(I made a bracket for that fan to sit above those heatsinks and blow down onto the back of the GPU past the memory)


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I specifically got this XFX XXX edition for that extra ram sink slung along the bottom which i thought was sweet, i think some other brands included it in the slot cooling model.

But those orb cooler 5xxx/6xxx cards I all looked at didn't have any sort of memory cooling.....


http://i41.tinypic.com/4i2ems.jpg


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on either side of the board!!!!! its pretty understandable that companies don't include back plate heat spreaders outside of the flagship cards. But usually if you do some back ground digging you can find the cards that have memory cooling on at least one side... Or even better put all the memory on a single side like MSi does with the Twin Frozer Series of cards and then make a heatsink that covers everything from chokes and VR's to the memory and RAMDAC's and just well... crap that gets hot.


http://media.bestofmicro.com/W/7/279799/original/msi_n560gtx-ti-tf2_back.jpg


Then its just a matter of going through it with some premium thermal paste (i like running small fans on the back of the video card sitting on the X bolt pattern, Nvidia's are usually 72mm, ATi's are usually 40mm fans) and making sure everything makes a nice snug even join and seeing what luck you pulled in the assembly line lottery.

Because my 6600GT was a awesome overclocker. But my 7900GT didn't really even want to budge even though i saw others going a hell of a lot faster. My 8800GTS was also pretty respectful but it was already a eVGA 8800GTS SuperSuperClock edition (now called the classified series) and that ran hot as hell even at what was "Stock" for the card... hot could be a understatement with that card.


And i have to say this 5770 must of been assembled by a group of saints that day at the factory because i'm only 45mhz away from whats "allowed" on the memory, and already at the maximum for the GPU core and i don't get any corruption or artifacting. so i'm really satisfied with ATi. (this coming from a guy thats previously only used Nvidia since well..... The good ol' days when you could look down on the hilarious Nvidia users with your AGP 3dFX voodoo banshee )

[Konrad]

Hmmm, I hadn't considered that extra gains might be realized when upgrading the stock cooling parts. My OC efforts have always been restricted to the main proc and mobo components, I'm such a noob.