Incorrect info on NewEgg, EVGA 9800GT NOT 55nm

[OCNewbie]

I ordered a 9800GT from newegg on 10/28. At the time of purchase, the sub-title in brown lettering (current Link for reference) said "new 55nm hybrid-power", but has since changed.

I just got the card installed tonight, ran GPU-Z and I see it is showing up as the old 65nm part. I was wondering if anybody else noticed this and by chance has a screenshot of the page from that night, or might know of a way I could find it cached online through some search engine or otherwise.

Thanks!

 

[Zap]

I'm suprised they fixed it so quick. EVGA must have friends at Newegg or they must have raised a big stink. When there was a serious error with two of BFG's power supplies (Newegg claiming lifetime warranty when they only had 5 year warranty) it took them a good month to fix that error.

Your recourse would be to return the card to Newegg for a refund. Call customer service for the RMA and explain what happened, and demand that they waive the restocking fee as well as pay for return shipping. Don't know if you'll actually get all that, but worth a shot. I'm sure Newegg has some fine print somewhere stating they aren't liable for errors on their site.

I'm pretty sure there is no EVGA 9800 GT that is 55nm, because someone posted regarding this Newegg link at another forum and someone posted saying they phoned EVGA tech support, who told him that all EVGA 9800 GT were 65nm.

In fact, all BFG 9800 GT are 65nm as well (though that will change really soon).

GPU-Z is not always accurate regarding die shrinks. There have been reviews where it reported 65nm and the reviewer pulled off the fansink to show a 55nm chip. I've actually tested this myself, and yes GPU-Z is wrong in reporting 55nm as 65nm. Still, the EVGA cards (as well as 99% of the cards you can buy right now) are 65nm.

http://www.hardwarezone.com.au...view.php?cid=3&id=2707

We checked the core code G92-420-B1 and found that it was indeed a 55nm core, and not 65nm as GPU-Z reported. The B1 in the code indicates that it is 55nm.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index....view&id=8724&Itemid=40

We ran GPU-Z and it displayed the specs showing us that Sparkle's card is based on the old 65nm GPU. Later on, we found more time to play with the Sparkle's 9800 GT card, and after we took the cooler off, we saw the 55nm GPU behind.

I wouldn't worry too much about it because 55nm at this time doesn't seem to overclock any better (new process for NVIDIA) and doesn't seem to run much cooler or draw less power. What it does do is cost less to make, which will pave the way for future price drops. Better performance will come as the process matures.

 

[AmberClad]

They didn't "fix" anything. Look at the brown sub-title now. "Free Enemy of Quick War w/ purchase, while supplies last".

Enemy of Quick War? Is that a new political commentary novel? Maybe they mean Enemy Territory: Quake Wars :roll:.

Edit: And didn't they manage to mis-spell JonnyGURU as "jonygrur" once on one of the Egg subtitles?

 

[wolf2009]

Nvidia did not change the bios for 55nm parts, so the bios is the same one as 65nm parts. thus gpu-z recognizes it as 65nm .

 

[OCNewbie]

Originally posted by: wolf2009
Nvidia did not change the bios for 55nm parts, so the bios is the same one as 65nm parts. thus gpu-z recognizes it as 65nm .

How can you tell whether or not it's actually a 55nm part or not then?

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: OCNewbie
How can you tell whether or not it's actually a 55nm part or not then?

You can remove the fansink, clean off the thermal compound and look at the GPU part number. Will be something like G92-280-B1 for 55nm, and G92-270-A1 for 65nm (might be slight revisions too).

 

[OCNewbie]

It was the 270-A1 version. Calling Newegg today in a few minutes since their phonelines appeared to be closed over the weekend.

 

[nyker96]

Originally posted by: AmberClad
They didn't "fix" anything. Look at the brown sub-title now. "Free Enemy of Quick War w/ purchase, while supplies last".

Enemy of Quick War? Is that a new political commentary novel? Maybe they mean Enemy Territory: Quake Wars :roll:.

Edit: And didn't they manage to mis-spell JonnyGURU as "jonygrur" once on one of the Egg subtitles?

that's so funny :]

 

[OCNewbie]

Ended up using the livechat feature on newegg.com. Maddie was very helpful and I didn't have to jump through any hoops, etc. They issued me a RMA# and printable pre-paid UPS label so I'm good to go =)