EVGA announces GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition

[AuDioFreaK39]

EVGA announces Geforce GTX 295 Red Edition

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Red shroud and backplate for $549


Just recently, EVGA listed a new version of its sellout Geforce GTX 295 graphics card on its product page, one that was inspired by fiery looks and a primeval appeal for anything resembling flesh. If you're a self-proclaimed enthusiast and like the color red, this card would be a very ideal choice. (Or you should get a red ATI, sub.ed.)

The EVGA Geforce GTX 295 Red Edition is inspired by the company's new trend to design products with red and black color tones. A few examples can be seen with the shroud color of the 55nm Geforce GTX 260 Core 216 as well as the newly announced X58 SLI Classified motherboard. The card runs at stock frequencies of a 576MHz core, 1242MHz shaders, and 1998MHz GDDR3 memory, but these can be significantly raised through the use of the company's GPU Voltage Tuner as acclaimed by many users.

This model, labeled 017-P3-1294-AR (http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/017-P3-1294.pdf), comes with a preinstalled red EVGA GTX 295 backplate, which have been reported to provide significant temperature reductions by up to 10C on load.

EVGA currently lists the Red Edition for $549.99 (http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=017-P3-1294-AR&family=GeForce%20200%20Series%20Family) on its site with stock expected to be available soon, and it will not take away your freedom or speech, nor socialize healthcare.

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Source (http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12675&Itemid=1)

[Tho Jo Smale]

Is it to make it more X2 like?

[slaWter]

I prefer the normal version...

[lduguay]

Is it to make it more X2 like?

It sure looks like it, If you can't join them (nvidia), confuse them.

[Feyy]

Ugly

[wysiwyg]

looks like an ATI card now :P

noooooooooooooooooooo

[BioHazZarD]

Thats just plain retarded.. next step is to make an identical ati cooler.. wtf.

[bacon12]

Umm it matches their new board. I do perfer green and black thou. I wonder if the failure/bad card rate will be the same on these as what I have been reading about people and their 295s?

[AuDioFreaK39]

Umm it matches their new board. I do perfer green and black thou. I wonder if the failure/bad card rate will be the same on these as what I have been reading about people and their 295s?

The failure / success rate of this card will be no different than that of the current black EVGA GTX 295s. It's the same card with different shell and backplate colors.

[methimpikehoses]

:barf:

[methimpikehoses]

Umm it matches their new board. I do perfer green and black thou. I wonder if the failure/bad card rate will be the same on these as what I have been reading about people and their 295s?

Everyone who has one here like their card, to my knowledge.

[bacon12]

Yea that is true but I have read of two different people in the last week who have gotten 3 bad ones from EVGA. Several others rmaing at least once.

Its too much of a coincidence for it not to maybe be a bad batch or something. I can link you the threads here, but one of the guys I know personally, and he got three bad ones. One would not even install without errors, the other two wouldn't run at stock clocks without artifacting in crysis.

Evga bins these cards too, thus all the versions, so either the have a bad employee doing it, or there is an issue.

[methimpikehoses]

If you get 3 bad cards... that has got to be 99% user error. I mean 1 is one thing, that could happen. 2 is REALLY bad luck, but no one gets 3 bad ones.

[bacon12]

I would say so as well Meth but I know this guy and he isn't an idiot. I mean when you install the card on a fresh windows install and it is artifacting at stock clocks then there isn't really much he could have done wrong.

[methimpikehoses]

You can not be an idiot and still have something else going wrong with the setup though... power supply, a bad connection, bad memory, some mobo issue, etc.

[bacon12]

Why then is the fourth card working fine if there is a problem in his set up somewhere? I said he isn't an idiot meaning he builds 10 or more rigs a year and knows what he is doing.

He swapped every component and tested with other cards, it was the 295s that were bad.

[Bman212121]

Yea that is true but I have read of two different people in the last week who have gotten 3 bad ones from EVGA. Several others rmaing at least once.

Its too much of a coincidence for it not to maybe be a bad batch or something. I can link you the threads here, but one of the guys I know personally, and he got three bad ones. One would not even install without errors, the other two wouldn't run at stock clocks without artifacting in crysis.

Evga bins these cards too, thus all the versions, so either the have a bad employee doing it, or there is an issue.

If you get 3 bad cards... that has got to be 99% user error. I mean 1 is one thing, that could happen. 2 is REALLY bad luck, but no one gets 3 bad ones.

Yea that's kind of interesting. There is a difference though between the cards artifacting under load and not booting at all. If he claimed all 3 were DOA and wouldn't boot I'd say it is definitely user error. But if they are artifacting then it could possibly be something wrong with that batch that wasn't tested.

After 3 though you'd wonder if at least one of those worked right and maybe a combination of drivers and some other stuff was messing with one of them.

[methimpikehoses]

Why then is the fourth card working fine if there is a problem in his set up somewhere? I said he isn't an idiot meaning he builds 10 or more rigs a year and knows what he is doing.

He swapped every component and tested with other cards, it was the 295s that were bad.

If the fourth card is fine, then it must be the cards. *shrug*

[wysiwyg]

Yea that's kind of interesting. There is a difference though between the cards artifacting under load and not booting at all. If he claimed all 3 were DOA and wouldn't boot I'd say it is definitely user error. But if they are artifacting then it could possibly be something wrong with that batch that wasn't tested.

After 3 though you'd wonder if at least one of those worked right and maybe a combination of drivers and some other stuff was messing with one of them.

i would say all those cards are creating far too much heat in the install case, hence the artifacting

[xorbe]

Circuit City colors tones.

[bacon12]

i would say all those cards are creating far too much heat in the install case, hence the artifacting

No this was a single card on the test bench. I still want one, but I am in spending lock down till I can get my savings right. I have two jobs on the books, but after that there is no telling. :o

[nekrosoft13]

Commie version

[top3koms]

Sure is fugly ... IMO

[Koko56]

If you get 3 bad cards... that has got to be 99% user error. I mean 1 is one thing, that could happen. 2 is REALLY bad luck, but no one gets 3 bad ones.

If the fourth card is fine, then it must be the cards. *shrug*

:p


Does not look too appealing on the pics... not ugly though.

[MaxBlade]

Hmm seems they sure didnt go all out on this one lol.

as for the 3 bad ones. Man could be anything. Me I always open the card put new thermal on and make sure all the screws are tight. Found to many not tight or the heatsink not touching the gpu.