Graphic Cards Gainward gives the 'goes like hell' treatment to the 7800GTX 512MB

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I'm sure many of you are aware of Gainward’s new “goes like hell” cards which can only be described as their “Golden Sample” brand on steroids.

It denotes a special version of a specific card that is not just heavily overclocked, but also changes the memory specification (the actual chips are swapped out for faster IC’s). This is then stamped on a custom designed red PCB. Gainward currently have a 6800GS GLH and a 7800GT GLH both based on these principles, and believe me, they are stupendously fast, easily the fastest in there respective categories by a mile.

This brings us neatly to a new card allegedly coming from Gainward soon, a 7800 GTX 512MB “Goes like hell”. This is not a suped up 256MB GTX, this is a suped up GTX 512MB, the card that is nowhere to be seen in the retail channel and is clocked at 550/1700MHz.

Gainward’s GLH version is rumoured to be clocked somewhere around 600-650 MHz on the core and a mind blowing 2.2 GHz on the memory. If this turns out to be more than a rumour it will most likely be faster than a 7900 GTX.
 
Despite so much efforts by gainward to make their cards stand out, i've hardly seen anyone going for gainward cards these days. Sad........ :(
 
^^ reason being poor availability.. someone shud kick MediaTechIndia right where it hurts the most.. and the ones that are available are expensive :(

@ Rahul: its not hit the retails shelves.. so its still a vapourware :P
 
Blade_Runner said:
@masky, hunter: True but i was talking about international market place as well. The figure has gone down drastically i believe.
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i guess thats coz now the likes of BFG and eVGA are also offering highly overclocked versions of cards, earlier it was pretty much all Gainward. so its just competition i think. btw when did gainward come out the golden sample, was it with the gf4 series or before?
 
hunt3r said:
i guess thats coz now the likes of BFG and eVGA are also offering highly overclocked versions of cards, earlier it was pretty much all Gainward. so its just competition i think. btw when did gainward come out the golden sample, was it with the gf4 series or before?
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Nah the real story goes this way. More related to bad management i think.

Both products are from Gainward. Oh, it's so difficult to write univocally about this company! It started well on the Russian market, its products were remarkable. If you had asked me in times of GeForce3, which company offered better 2D quality - Gainward or Leadtek, I would have found difficulty in replying or even would have preferred Gainward. Cards from this company were notable for their immaculate quality! Best selling companies ASUS or Gigabyte (MSI) would sometimes slow down, their products would have a lot of defective samples or would be not interesting. That is they were developing as a sine curve. But Gainward was steadily growing.

But when the company employed the manager who had ruined Hercules and offered the idea to overclock cards and create the Golden Sample series, the company got into rugged times. That very manager also raised high the prices for Gainward products, which resulted in the drop of demand and interest to these products. That was especially noticeable on the Russian market. Gainward's popularity even went into a spin after 2002. Products from this company were gloomily and slowly falling into oblivion despite multiple visits and moves from the company management. Besides, the local representative office did nothing to promote sales, they offered no samples. So, the company was actually driven out of the market.

Gainward was expectedly heading towards its destruction (on the grounds of the above said). By the way, renewed Hercules had left the market of video cards for the same reason (untalented marketing). This notorious Golden Sample series brought grand losses (the Hercules situation repeated itself). As a result, this business was sold and Gainward got the new management. Thank God, that manager was fired. (He now works in eVGA, and we already gamble on how long this company will survive).

The new management changed the policy, updated the representative office in Moscow, and these poor people are now responsible for delivering products to our consumers in the slush of our market. We are happy to note that all these traverses, toils and trouble have not affected the most important - the quality of products, Gainward is still up to the mark. In other respects - we'll see how this company will do in Russia.
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TheMask said:
^^ lol.. first hercules, then gainward n now eVGA? sounds scary to say the least :P
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Potentially the reason why evga is selling super overclocked CO and KO cards :P. I hope this doesn't kill evga lol.
 
nah chaos, theyre available in the US as well. but havent seen them anywhere else. but they seem to be doin pretty well and their CO series is pretty VFM.
 
Spammer said:
and people say GTX 512 is vapourware ..... J/K
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TheMask said:
@ Rahul: its not hit the retails shelves.. so its still a vapourware :P
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i was talking about GTX 512 and it is available sometime before still u can find it on some site but price is sky rocking
 
Wth?

What kinda cooling?

Im sure its not on Stock :S.

Copper Heatpipes any1? :/...

600 - 650 Mhz on a 110nm chip.

Thats VERY VERY, yield dependent.
 
Cream of the lot is gonna make it to the PCB... as for GDDR3 going 2.2GHz... well I have seen enough of OCed GTX512-SLI combos with 625+ on Core and Max of 21XXMHz on Mem. So I think Gainward's going to be a card where you may not need to do any extreme VMODs :D to OC and be at the top10 of the rankings.
 
550 mhz is already cream of the crop and theyre having difficulty producing those itself. so 600-650 Mhz is gonna be like next to impossible if not impossbile IMHO
 
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