Superclocked bonus?

[JBird7986]

Has anything like this ever happened to anyone before? I am running an eVGA 8800 GTS 640MB, which I received about two weeks ago to replace an old Radeon 9700 Pro. However, when I opened nTune, I found that the card was running at eVGA's "Superclocked" card speeds (576MHz Core instead of 500MHz, 850MHz memory instead of 800MHz) even though I hadn't ordered Superclocked and it came in stock packaging. Is nTune misreporting these speeds, or did I get lucky and wind up with a Superclocked version for free?

 

[Laminator]

Looks like you got a Superclocked. Maybe they're trying to dump them off quickly...supposedly the newer cores are out (the same revision/stepping as those in the 8800 Ultra) and they overclock like beasts. Some guy on HardForums got his 8800GTS to 700MHz+ out of the box with the new stepping.

These GeForce 8's are overclocking monsters...since they were released I've read either one or zero posts from someone who was disappointed with the overclocking. Drivers, of course, were a different story.

 

[Sinn707]

A buddy of mine had the exact same thing happen to him, ordered a regular 8800 GTS 640M and received a superclocked version instead, even though the box said it was a regular card. Heck, nothing to complain about, that's for sure