RMAed a BFG 8800GTX, Got a 9800 GT OC (1GB) in return

MSI sent me this on my RMA'd 8800-GTX
My 8800-GTX wnt out and MSI sent me this about my rma

Can we replace your card NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD-OC to the NX8800GT-T2D1GE-OC card?

I replied I would like equal or better performance.. We will see what they say.

Specs Comparison

Toms has the 1 meg GT trailing the GTX in almost everything across the board.
 
SereLaw said:
Can we replace your card NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD-OC to the NX8800GT-T2D1GE-OC card?
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I lol'd when I read that. MSI is not being honest. They wouldn't ask you if it was OK unless they knew it was a much worse card because nobody would say no if it were better, so they wouldn't ask in that case.
 
MSI must be waiting for a 8800-GTX to come out of the oven to ship to me.

Monday got email to down grade me. Not acceptable I replied.

Hope it smells like oatmeal raison cookies. Mmmm.

Now I wait.

BFG next card for sure.
 
Called BFG to RMA my BFG Tech 8800 GT 512 OC on Friday 7/17 at 10 AM, received 9800 GT OC 512 5:37 PM by FedEx Monday 7/20 via cross-shipment RMA.

8800 GT 512 OC to 9800 GT 512 OC is a good trade?
 
illuminarok said:
Called BFG to RMA my BFG Tech 8800 GT 512 OC on Friday 7/17 at 10 AM, received 9800 GT OC 512 5:37 PM by FedEx Monday 7/20 via cross-shipment RMA.

8800 GT 512 OC to 9800 GT 512 OC is a good trade?
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the cards are almost identical with 9800s being rebadged 8800s.
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ocellaris said:
the cards are almost identical with 9800s being rebadged 8800s.
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Oh I see, didn't I hear a while back that NVIDIA intended to make that 9800 GT the same as the 8800 but only with a smaller manufacturing process? I remember thinking the 8800 was somewhere in the 60-70nm range and the 9800 was 55nm or something like that? Or am I mistaken/delusional? lol

Does the 9800 happen to use any less power or run quieter and/or cooler?

My 8800 GT was idling at 77-81 C- and hitting 104 C- in Fallout 3 in a 960x600 resolution with everything on Low to Medium. Crysis would make it go to 115 C- in 30 seconds of gameplay on the absolute minimal settings and would thus lock the computer with the black screen of thermal death panic in short order. I had the card for over a year and did not even realize that BFG had lifetime warranties on their products, so I got ready to call and complain about how crappy this card was and therefore how crappy BFG must be when the RMA specialist totally pwned me by offering to send a "new, and upgraded [since 8800 was EOL long ago] card."

Note: I obsessively compulsively keep my computer dust free and well ventilated.

I've never been much of a gamer so when it didn't work like I expected I kinda forgot about it instead of trying to do something about it. I mean, I turned the fan to 100% manually with RivaTuner and installed the card's firmware update on the webpage for people experiencing abnormal thermal issues with this particular card. Needless to say, it's always ran extremely hot and performed only mediocre. I haven't been able to swap out the cards just yet due to other obligations, however.
 
Ok, the 9800GT and the 8800GT are the exact same cards.

The only difference (besides a BIOS update) is that all of the bugs from the 8800GT were worked out and the 9800GT stock cooler has a slightly bigger fan.

The 8800GT was the first PCI-E 2.0 card to ever come out and had sooo many heating issues and bugs that messed with performance and/or compatibility.

The 9800GT is, in essence, the more perfected version of the 8800GT.

On a performance/power requirement/die size/spec scale, the two cards are identical.

EDIT: and yeah, BFGTech support is amazing and has helped me many times over.
 
Okay, RMA card runs at 57 C- idle and 83 C- max while in 1600x1050 resolution and medium-high to very-high settings! At long last I can finally enjoy my purchase, lol
 
They sent me an BFG GeForce GTS 250 OC 1GB for my 8800 GTX OC2. Should I be satisfied with this? I mean the memory interface is only 256-bit and the memory bandwidth 71.7GB/sec, which both are higher on the 8800. :confused:
 
Aleksei said:
They sent me an BFG GeForce GTS 250 OC 1GB for my 8800 GTX OC2. Should I be satisfied with this? I mean the memory interface is only 256-bit and the memory bandwidth 71.7GB/sec, which both are higher on the 8800. :confused:
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the GTS 250 OC is faster, it's a 9800GTX +, even though it has less memory bandwidth, the G92 has some added features to alleviate the need for higher mem bandwidth :p

that card should be faster in just about everything
 
Aleksei said:
They sent me an BFG GeForce GTS 250 OC 1GB for my 8800 GTX OC2. Should I be satisfied with this? I mean the memory interface is only 256-bit and the memory bandwidth 71.7GB/sec, which both are higher on the 8800. :confused:
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odd... i got GTX260 back when i sent in an 8800GTS 640
 
given when i rma-ed my card there was no such thing as GTS250 so who knows
 
Stanley Pain said:
So the question would be is this an equivalent replacement?

More vram, less stream processors, MUCH smaller card. Hard to find any benchmarks of the 1GB OC version.
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Hi. I just wanan share my story with you. My bfg 8800 gtx has died about three weeks ago. I've called BFG and rma's the card to them. They received it on the 17th july 2009 . I had the old 8800gtx for about 2.5 years or something like that. Anyways .. Today fedex showed up (monday july 27th) at my doorstep and brought a brand new GFGTX2851024OC2E So this is kind of strange that they sent you a slower card. And if you had a card like me (8800gtx) than why i got a 285gtx and you did not? Well I am very happy with their customer service and warrenty department. I just hope that you should get at list the same card as me.. Since it would be fair.. Thanx BFG for a great replacement !
 
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just because one person gets a better then expected replacement does not thus force BFG to give i to everyone. equal or greater is all you should expect.. if some get greater then others thats how the inventory at the time rolls.

For god sakes i RMA's a old TI 4200 card around the time the 7800 series cards were out and got another 4200 back its all you should expect.
 
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