Do You Trust Manufactured OC'd Video Cards?

Dyre Straits · May 13th, 2008, 08:33 AM

That's the question.

What's your answer?

**Regeneration** · May 13th, 2008, 11:00 AM

Well, I guess they are stress testing cards to ensure stability, so I don't have any problem with pre-OCed cards.

omagic · May 13th, 2008, 12:51 PM

Right, I have 2 OC'ed 8800GT and no problems so far + temperatures are fine. I think that the only thing You should watch for is good manufacturers products. Solid companies wont let any of their cards with "bugs" to get on the market...

blindartist · May 13th, 2008, 10:49 PM

ive never had any issues with a factory oc'd cards, and ive oc'd every card ive had and never had any issues (ecept for frying the 12v rail on my old cheap generic oem psu lol) as long as you keep the heat in check and you have a powersuply with a couple amps to spare you wont have any problems

IModAmd · May 14th, 2008, 02:32 AM

Would be totaly dumb from an company to sell an Factory OC Card and this one would be unstable... normaly they TRY EVERYTHING... on thoses cards for see how far they can reach.

Dyre Straits · May 14th, 2008, 07:27 AM

OK...so, let me throw you a little curve here.

If the memory and core can actually run at the 'overclocked' speeds without any problems, then why are they considered "overclocked" to begin with? In other words, if the labs determine that the chips can run at higher speeds, why not just rate them at the higher speed instead of 'dumbing down' the published speed so that they can then call them 'overclocked'?

Am I making any sense here? (I've not had a whole lot of sleep the past few days and this maybe a fuzzy question.

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omagic · May 14th, 2008, 08:44 AM

Thats simple.

1st. Often the reference cards have poor quality memory on base cards, and solid manufacturers replace them with much better ones( on my Gainward I have 1.0ns mems samsung I think)...

2nd. Not all chips are the same, its just like with CPU one will OC better other wont get any higher at all! :-/ They just test them and pick the best one's to make OC edidions...

3rd. They often have to change cooling system and memory which makes card more expensive so they have to leave some default cards to compete with other companies products...

IModIntel · May 14th, 2008, 03:09 PM

Pre-overclocked cards (or overclocked at all) are designed for people who have a ''frame-per-secondiptic'' fit when they realize that they just paid a nice premium to have a slightly higher 3d mark score than another guy at the other end of the world.

Osier · May 26th, 2008, 05:10 AM

I have never had an issue yet with Factory OC'd
cards as of yet, so yes I trust them.

I've actually had more problems with the standard
ATi & nVidia cards, which I find rather strange when
you consider they're the regular off-the-shelf units.

~Os.

Ziddy · May 27th, 2008, 10:12 AM

If you are willing to spend the money, its not bad considering. As stated above, the cards have been stress tested, guaranteed and waranteed by the manufacture to run at those overclocked speeds.