EVGA launches souped up GeForce GTX 285 2GB FTW Edition
NVIDIA's GTX 285 has got itself yet another makeover at the hands of EVGA, which just launched its GeForce GTX 285 2GB FTW Edition.
EVGA appears to have souped up the card's BIOS to reach a GPU clock speed of 702MHz, well up on the 648MHz stock clock speed.
The card's shaders have also been given a bit of kick, going from a stock speed of 1476MHz to a new and improved 1584MHz, with just the memory missing out on any improvements to its 2484MHz clock speed.
EVGA's specs show the card sports 240 processing cores, a 512-bit memory interface, two DVI outputs, two six pin PCI-E external power connectors, support for NV's three way SLI and a slightly disappointing 2GB of memory.
No specific date is mentioned for availability, but EVGA promises its card will be hitting shelves "soon" for a recommended price of $440. µ
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Who the hell would pay $440 for this when it's only barely better than a HD 4890, costing about half the price???
Even if a ever bought a desktop system (which I won't, as I only have one desk in my home, and I want to be able to use for reading too), I would prefer to buy 2 cards for 220$,one now and one in eight months from now.
1)The 220$ card I am going to buy now will be able run modern games just as good as this 440$ powerhouse. Okay,it might not have 8x antialiasing and anisotropic and other cute little words, but nobody, believe me, nobody will notice, not even you.
2)The 220$ card you 'll buy in eight months will able to run the games of that era,while this powerhouse will NOT, as it will have become obsolete.
So,EVGA vs two cards of the same price, one now and one in eight months 0-1
i just got myself a 3008 and at 2560 a few of my games are crawling at 3 fps when they were 60+ fps at 1920 with aa so i am running out of gram. I am using a 4870 1gb so i really need more gram. i would buy it to get most out of shiny monitor. so any gamers running 2560 - a few handfuls
Wait wait, you miss the point with this card. Let put things this way: why somebody buys Porsche, Lamborghini or for 1/8 of the price Volkswagen Passat or when they can buy Shkoda Octavia for 1/12 price?
simply, you have, you can afford it! not everybody thinks rationally... why some woman want to have diamonds on her neck when she can have some glass or plastics? nobody will notice ;)
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Only idiots would buy this.
How embarrassing to advertise DDR3 in the box.
Yes of course there are going to be a few people out there with 2560px panels, but most of these people already have 4870X2s or GTX295s. My guess is 90% of those that haven't that do want a more powerful GPU are now waiting for AMD 58xx series or NV GTX3xx series, which will be launching in the next few months to tie in with Win7's RTM release.
On another note, what annoys me most about this product has got HDMI plastered over the front of the box, only for there to be no HDMI out that I can see anyway. False advertising?
Not really, they do have HDMI, they use a dvi HDMI adapter, they also have an audio pass through cable so it even carries the sound.
And I agree, I brought my gtx280s a while back, and since I am still yet to find a game to slow em down at 1920x1200 I will keep using them for a while.
Where this card would be very good is as a poor mans CUDA engine, 2GB of ram makes for large data set storage :)
isn't hdmi just another name for "buy me you media DRM monkey?" or "stick it to you built in?"
Yeah HDMI has encryption, HDCP, that counts as DRM and enforces its use whenever both the host and sink support it. Also, HDCP was designed to be always enabled and impossible to disable assuming the host and sink support it. That means if your monitor acts stupidly with HDCP on, you are out of luck, officially at least. There are HDCP strippers using HDCP certified components in what is most definitely not an HDCP certifiable device. HDCP is really a stupid system though, it uses 40-bit encryption and rotates the same small set of keys. Encryption this weak would take a single current home PC 24 hours at most to crack all of the keys. While there are a few legitimate HDMI capture devices, none of them will capture HDCP encrypted content, at least with the included software.
This hardly matters, most copying does not and would not happen at the video output stage. Most copiers/pirates just rip the Blu-Ray/DVD disc directly, better quality that way. That just leaves regular consumers with the horrible pain of HDCP problems and no legitimate method of solving them.
Well you would buy this if the games you play at 2560x1600 still only use one card. Many games do NOT take advantage of SLI and push hard graphics. So if you want the very best single board card in your system ... this is it.
It would appear that even for folk with the cash (or, as in my case, buying on someone else's dime), getting this card in the UK is pretty much impossible. EVGA's sole UK retail supplier, Scan, have been overdue on this order since the 14th JULY. So who's hoarding them? It isn't as if it's the Asus MARS with only 1000 available.