maskedmenace
 


Well, in this case -- They are right.

I've had 2 680's for a while now -- 2 more coming and a lot of what's being said is true but, many people fail to realize that, historicly, this has happened before.

So 4 days is a while and that being long enough to have absolutely mastered the OC potential of this card given its lengthy tenure on the market taking into account the variations of the multiple driver releases since its launch? 

To OP, with the low inventory on newegg, other online stores and EVGA, you could easily sell these for 500 in the marketplace. I would probably buy 1 if you did. I think that'll be the easier than refusing shipping.

zzDarkwingDuck


To OP, with the low inventory on newegg, other online stores and EVGA, you could easily sell these for 500 in the marketplace. I would probably buy 1 if you did. I think that'll be the easier than refusing shipping.

 
Actually, he would lose money. Paypal fees + shipping would rape him from breaking even if he sold it for 500. Refusing shipment is probably the best thing to do if he really didn't want it. 
 
Could try amazon payments but too much hassle. 

evganerd

zzDarkwingDuck


To OP, with the low inventory on newegg, other online stores and EVGA, you could easily sell these for 500 in the marketplace. I would probably buy 1 if you did. I think that'll be the easier than refusing shipping.

Actually, he would lose money. Paypal fees + shipping would rape him from breaking even if he sold it for 500. Refusing shipment is probably the best thing to do if he really didn't want it. 

Could try amazon payments but too much hassle. 

 
 
I don't think that is right I have a buyer ready to pay $600 for one.

Porpoise Hork

maskedmenace
 


Well, in this case -- They are right.

I've had 2 680's for a while now -- 2 more coming and a lot of what's being said is true but, many people fail to realize that, historicly, this has happened before.

So 4 days is a while and that being long enough to have absolutely mastered the OC potential of this card given its lengthy tenure on the market taking into account the variations of the multiple driver releases since its launch? 

 
I can say after 4 days, I haven't mastered it.  I'm still gathering sufficient data.  For gaming I set it to 132%/+100/+250 but for benching, etc., there's an incredible amount of work to do to find how to mix offsets with GPU Boost -- and then keeping the cards under 70-75*C so GPU Boost won't limit the OC.

While the 680 might not be the high-end card in the Kepler era, it does, however, perform better than the current offerings in high-end cards from AMD (at least I think the HD 7970 is about as high-end as AMD's gonna get this generation), so that tells you something.  So don't think that the 680 not being a high-end card doesn't mean that it's competitive with other high-end cards that are out there currently.  I'm all in on one of these bad boys!

eduncan911


Sidebar: "I help to invent forums in the mid-90s!" <- Al Gore voice.  Hehe, seriously though, back in the mid 90s we needed a way to post online.  So we came up with the concept of a Guestbook.  Then we wanted security, so I added basic authentication around a guestbook.  Then a client wanted multiple guestbooks so we renamed things to a Discussion Posts in Threads.  And it took off from there.  A lot of my original code I am sure lives on in phpBB when I moved onto that, and then ASP.NET Forums (powering the majority of Microsoft blogs, forums, etc for well over 5 years), etc.  So, uh, I am no "newb".  

That is revisionist history though. BBS forums from the 80's formed a lot of the concepts that carried over to web forum design.

Brad_Hawthorne

eduncan911


Sidebar: "I help to invent forums in the mid-90s!" <- Al Gore voice.  Hehe, seriously though, back in the mid 90s we needed a way to post online.  So we came up with the concept of a Guestbook.  Then we wanted security, so I added basic authentication around a guestbook.  Then a client wanted multiple guestbooks so we renamed things to a Discussion Posts in Threads.  And it took off from there.  A lot of my original code I am sure lives on in phpBB when I moved onto that, and then ASP.NET Forums (powering the majority of Microsoft blogs, forums, etc for well over 5 years), etc.  So, uh, I am no "newb".  

That is revisionist history though. BBS forums from the 80's formed a lot of the concepts that carried over to web forum design.

You got that right!  I did my far share of BBS development too back in the late 80s.  LOL  Damn, totally forgot about that leave-an-offline-message board concept.  
 
My personal flavor I released was CrackRock which was a flavor of the ACiD release series, if you ever dialed into one.
 
Oh man, I am dating myself! That was 1989, it is now 2012.  Holy crap...

Read through these benchmarks: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-680-review-benchmark,3161-14.html
I really don't care about (or for, for that matter) whether these 680's can play todays games. My 5850 plays the demo's just fine as does my 6800 GTS.
I was after an overclockable card. Having locked voltages does not make for an overclockable videocard.
All I asked in my OP was how much it would cost for me to refuse delivery for these cards I bought from EVGA.
I wanted to ship them back immediately so somebody interested in these castrated cards could buy them asap.
Now, I'm quite sure some idiots will be happy to buy them off of eBay at a minimum bid of $600 USD.
*Removed*
I was just going to ship them back to EVGA, now that I've found that there are so many people that actually believe that these are the best cards ever made and that there's already been an offer of $600 each for them, I think I'll just see how far you people will go to buy these at an even more ridiculous price.
I tried to be nice and get these back to EVGA so that they could be resold at the going rate from the factory, but you've convinced me otherwise.
I, and my bank account, thank you!

ooo oo meh too! who wants my GTX 680's? $600 a piece + shipping =p
 
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kzinti1


Read through these benchmarks: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-680-review-benchmark,3161-14.html
I really don't care about (or for, for that matter) whether these 680's can play todays games. My 5850 plays the demo's just fine as does my 6800 GTS.
I was after an overclockable card. Having locked voltages does not make for an overclockable videocard.
All I asked in my OP was how much it would cost for me to refuse delivery for these cards I bought from EVGA.
I wanted to ship them back immediately so somebody interested in these castrated cards could buy them asap.
Now, I'm quite sure some idiots will be happy to buy them off of eBay at a minimum bid of $600 USD.
I was just going to ship them back to EVGA, now that I've found that there are so many people that actually believe that these are the best cards ever made and that there's already been an offer of $600 each for them, I think I'll just see how far you people will go to buy these at an even more ridiculous price.
I tried to be nice and get these back to EVGA so that they could be resold at the going rate from the factory, but you've convinced me otherwise.
I, and my bank account, thank you!

 
Just my personal opinion... you're asking the EVGA user community how to screw with EVGA. That is the epitome of trolling.  To top it all off, you ask an ignorant shipping question in the 680 forum... There's a forum already setup for inane questions like this... the General Discussion forum (where most of the forum spam winds up)...
 
Deep down, you know you asked this in the 680 forum to flame... So many TOS issues: flaming, trolling, and asking questions in the wrong forum... stop being an attention seeker when you know a simple call to customer service would be smarter than posting in the user community forums and asking nicely for a package intercept.
 

Guru3D was able to get theirs up to 1264MHz - Don't get what your freaking out about.
 
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-review/25

Wow!
Op you need to stop trolling about it until you try them out..

Maybe he should have did a little bit more research before he bought them.

Might be in need of a fire extinguisher.. :/
 
I'd stomp my 260 to pieces for a 680...

In my opinion, paying 600 bucks for video cards from a second hand person is nuts. No warranty. Best bet is to wait on these cards and get them with a warranty.

isn't the new EVGA warranty transferable now
http://www.evga.com/articles/00671/

Xavier Zepherious


isn't the new EVGA warranty transferable now
http://www.evga.com/articles/00671/

From the master himself 
  
It does not matter where the card came from under the new warranty. All that matters is that the card is still within 3 years.
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1515674

Yes, I guess it is. I didn't gleen that when I read it the first time......obviously missed that

OP contact EVGA and ask what its going to cost.  For sure there will be a restock fee.  I'd start there if I were u.

Overclocking any video card doesn't give you that much speed unless you get a crazy overclock going.
 
These cards are fast and you won't miss out on much even if you ran them stock.
 
I understand you may be a bit upset because you thought you were going to be able to clock them higher but at the most out of a good video card I got was a 5fps gain so I don't think you'll miss out on much.

213crz

evganerd

zzDarkwingDuck


To OP, with the low inventory on newegg, other online stores and EVGA, you could easily sell these for 500 in the marketplace. I would probably buy 1 if you did. I think that'll be the easier than refusing shipping.

Actually, he would lose money. Paypal fees + shipping would rape him from breaking even if he sold it for 500. Refusing shipment is probably the best thing to do if he really didn't want it. 

Could try amazon payments but too much hassle. 

I don't think that is right I have a buyer ready to pay $600 for one.

 
Why not? if someone wants a card really bad and cant wait, I would sell them at 600+ all day long. I just saw one on ebay go for $859 for one card.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-overclock-guide/1
 

 
Pretty great article about OCing the GTX 680.  Personally I receive my cards on Friday and I can't wait to try them out.
 
 

seansdaman


How much of an overclock were you looking for exactly? It sounds like most people can easily oc 200+ mhz on stock cooling with the 680.

I was going to ask the OP the same question as above.  What was he really expecting for a OC percentage wise.  Reading the Guru3d OC guide, they netted a good 20% performance increase and that is with early drivers and such.  I am not sure about you, but a 20% OC is pretty damn good for a stock card  with air and that 20% came with very little heat and power usage to get that. 
 
If you were expecting 40-60% OC ability from a stock/reference card, you clearly did not do any research at all.  The fact that it uses 2 6pin power would of told you that. 
 

Last year I had a 970, mobo and RAM ordered from Newegg and I refused delivery and they didn't charge me anything. If you don't take possession of the goods the retailer can resell them as new and they are only out a little bit of shipping and restock time. Plus I am more likely to buy from them in the future since they didn't harass me about it.

LOL, I know that Evga doesnt charge you a restocking fee if the item isn't open (at least that's how it was with my backplates...) 
 
However, they have had my 2 gtx 480 backplates I returned over a week ago and still I have got no refund.  I event got a refund back from Tigerdirect (GTX 480 I returned) before my money for 2 evga backplates.  Tigerdirect even took forever...   This wait is killing me, its like EVGA completely forgot about me

Does anyone here at Evga care about me?

VegetaCreeper


Does anyone here at Evga care about me?

 
NOOOO! 
 
I care about you...