I purchased a Gainward FX5700XT Golden Sample card from NewEgg about a month ago. I paid $200 for the card. It was guaranteed to OC out of the box. Unfortunately, it died soon after arrival, so I had to RMA it.

I got the replacement card today and was doing some benchmarking for a review when I noticed that a program called it a 5900XT. I checked the box then the card, and sure enough, NewEgg had replaced my 5700 with a 5900. Still a Golden Sample card guaranteed to OC. I checked the prices and it seems the 5900 is now at the price I paid for the 5700, I imagine that's why they did it. Either that or it was a mistake.

Either way, I will be posting major Kudo's on NewEgg's site.

I've been doin business with the Egg for 2 or 3 years now and I have had nary an issue.

I'm glad things worked out so well for you, especially after havin all that hardware break in one fell swoop.

Eh, Im still pissed on the box with mobo they sent me with NOTHING else not even chipset drivers . I sent it back and bot a board at a retail store to get all the goodies and emailed the Egg to please dont charge me for restocking because I am sending everything back EXACTLY the way I got it , ALAS to no avail.

P.S. was a refurbed board , no plastic wrapping or nada.

I've always been pleased with Newegg.

NoSlak, they do warn about refurbs not having all parts on their site:

"All refurbished merchandise should be considered OEM "barebone" parts. Barebone means Newegg.com can only guarantee the item by itself, no other accessories. Despite what the product's description indicates, refurbished merchandise may not include all of the accessories mentioned on our website or the manufacturers. Newegg.com is therefore limited to the barebone part of the item itself. Please do not be upset or surprised if a refurbished product does not contain any cables, manual, software, drivers, fan, et al. Newegg.com will not send you any missing accessories, even if it is an essential part."

LMAO

Ok someone was smoking some of da good stuff when thay sent the RMA back to ya

~Bob

Right on BA...
The Egg is by far the retailer who get's my hard earned...
Saaweet looking card too, I kinda like the idea of all the RAM on one side, stock sinks look like they'll do the job too.

Quote: I kinda like the idea of all the RAM on one side ~Zennzzo

Yeah definitlry better if ya got a water block custom size to cool it

Was lookin the card comes overclocked thats sweet..

~Bob

lol it was probably a case of chinese wispers in the new egg warehouse

"isnt he the big guy of pimprig?"

"oh god yeh it is!"

"what should we do? he has more power than an antec 550!"

"i no we can send him a better card it will keep us in a job"

"yeh good idea quickly before he gets really peeved"

Quote: Originally Posted by nev_payne lol it was probably a case of chinese wispers in the new egg warehouse "isnt he the big guy of pimprig?" "oh god yeh it is!" "what should we do? he has more power than an antec 550!" "i no we can send him a better card it will keep us in a job" "yeh good idea quickly before he gets really peeved"

Definitely more plausible than than the "Magic Bullet" theory. Hey BA, how about sending in my new 2.8C for me?

Quote: Originally Posted by CRE Definitely more plausible than than the "Magic Bullet" theory. Hey BA, how about sending in my new 2.8C for me?

cheerz man appreciate it lol - BA becomes our new hardware supplier

I should be receiving my new Lian Li case from them today or tomorrow......thank god I got the next few days off.......

Quote: Originally Posted by NoSlak ... P.S. was a refurbed board ...

What can you do to refurb a board anyway? Other than take it out of a case & dust it ?

Just a follow up note, I was shooting for 40,000 in Aquamark3 with all details high, and I just pulled 40,557. I have the core at 465 and memory at 835 and the card acts like it ain't even working. I just may play with it tonight to find out how high it will actually go.

BA, you da man. I gotta get me some of your good luck heading this way. I can only hit 18 thou on aquamark and that is with my machine pushed to the boiling point. I have mad chief pimp envy.

Ok, been screwing around with this card a bit. Ran it up to 500 core and 940 memory. Pulled 43,715. I was able to run with the memory at over 1,000 but started to get some artifacts. I'll screw with it some more later but I have another project I'm working on.

Not too bad for $200.

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What's the system behind that? I can pull those numbers card stock here, so I'm wondering how CPU is factoring here...

My CPU is an AMD 1700. What are you running?

Ran mine with a 1700 9x240, synchronous RAM.

Dang BA!!!

What RAM is on that SOB, talk about gulp on my part as I passed over the Gainward GS for my 9800Pro..

Definitely

If I might say so BA's got da fastest OC nVIDIA card here...

~Bob

Quote: Originally Posted by khellandros66 Dang BA!!! If I might say so BA's got da fastest OC nVIDIA card here... ~Bob

I seriously doubt that. I think Kay was just setting me up to kill me with benchmarks. Anywho, my marks are real world, meaning with all extraneous stuff running including WinAmp, my browser, WinMX, etc...

Yeah I was surprised how well this card clocked up, but I doubt I set any records when you pit it against some of the serious pimps on our site.