Gainward 8800gt

[bigfoot]

Just bought a Gainward 8800gt 512 golden sample for another rig I have, very cheap but I read somewhere that the early one's had a overheat problem which was the heatsink not being flat does anyone have any experience of these

[FunkZ]

The Golden Samples should have a dual-slot cooler on them, which is supposed to outperform the reference single slot design. That would be pretty lame if they actually cooled worse.

[bigfoot]

The article I read said that the first one's of these had this problem and after lapping the heatsink and replacing the thermal compound it worked fine but if that's still the case I dont know , But I have just realised that the mobo I was going to use it on has a via 880 ultra chipset so that might be a problem ??

[FunkZ]

VIA PT880 Ultra should support PCIe or AGP. Even if the slot is PCIe 1.0 the card should still be backwards compatible.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/p4-series/pt880_ultra/index.jsp

[typh4u]

Via Chipsets don't work with the 8800GT's.

[bigfoot]

Yep that's what I thought ! Doh! But if I get two I can sli them in my 650i rig and use the 8600gt from the 650i rig with the via 880 ultra , I'm fairly sure the 8600gt will work with the via it would still be better than the 7600gt thats in the via mobo ATM