Does anyone remember........

[rebuilder]

Back in 2004 or so I purchased from CompUSA an EVGA 7800 Ultra (Limited Edition) 256MB video card, about a week later for some unknown reason I went down to CompUSA and bought a second one....for no real reason, I just felt I needed to.

Since then I've been tinkering with overclocking video cards and am totally awash with what they can do, so much more fun then the CPU!!! needless to say... a little to much voltage and not enough cooling and fizzle went my 1st 7800.....but DAMN it was so fast before that last increase.

But anyway I called EVGA, they said no card was ever made, their website has all the 7 series removed and when I asked about the warranty (not telling them about the fizzle) they were really confused and I kept getting transferred to a new person, then I got to this one guy in engineering and he told me "oh that card, yea it was a real limited edition"...like only 100 ever made and to send it to them and he would be happy to send me a replacement.... boy am I dumb.....

Off it went and all I got back was a 7800GS......and no proof it ever existed..........Ahh but wait, my second card!

It happly sits in my Soyo build running a smooth 523MHz core clock.


SO... Has anyone...anyone ever heard of my lost 7800 Ultra (limited Edition) 256MB video card...

Anyone?

 

[iam2thecrowe]

no. time to update your video card!

 

[Nada190]

Limited edition or not, that card is ancient.

 

[rebuilder]

So is a creative Labs sound blaster AWE64 gold, but it sounds GREAT!

 

[rebuilder]

no. time to update your video card!

I'm not updating whats not broken... and this system rocks just fine with whats on it.. that's why I'm keeping it....
The question was does anyone remember it? I guess you need to be over forty to understand.

 

[rebuilder]

Limited edition or not, that card is ancient.

And how does a 10 year old card make it "ancient?"....
no sweety a Matrox Millennium P650 (circa 1997) is ancient..

 

[iam2thecrowe]

no. time to update your video card!

I'm not updating whats not broken... and this system rocks just fine with whats on it.. that's why I'm keeping it....
The question was does anyone remember it? I guess you need to be over forty to understand.

i used to have a nvidia riva 128, its not broken, but i certainly dont have it still, its obsolete, thats why i dont have it.

 

[Gam3r01]

Have I heard of the 7800? Yes. 7800 ultra? Yes. Limited edition, never heard of it.

 

[rebuilder]

Have I heard of the 7800? Yes. 7800 ultra? Yes. Limited edition, never heard of it.

THANK YOU!!!

Now at least I know someone else has at least heard of it.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

Have I heard of the 7800? Yes. 7800 ultra? Yes. Limited edition, never heard of it.

THANK YOU!!!

Now at least I know someone else has at least heard of it.

 

[Mousemonkey]

The GTX 7800 was a card that came in 512 and 256 models and was one of the first cards that could not be SLi'd if the RAM amounts didn't match IIRC (the XFX ones couldn't at least), did you ever have them in SLi?

 

[rebuilder]

The GTX 7800 was a card that came in 512 and 256 models and was one of the first cards that could not be SLi'd if the RAM amounts didn't match IIRC (the XFX ones couldn't at least), did you ever have them in SLi?

No,

My Soyo KT-880 Dragon 2 mother board only has 1 AGP slot.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Was the AGP card the special edition card? And as SLi is only available on the PCIe cards so that would never have worked anyway! 😉