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9 minutes ago, Sanedish said:

I know from Windows and the label that it's a GTS 8800 512mb, I just can't pin point the exact model..

I am pretty sure it's some OEM or ES gpu, maybe evga as it says "e-GeForce..."?

I think it is a founders edition card (Or atleast that is what we'd call it today).

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-8800-gts-512.c758

 

The lack of any other branding makes it very unlikely that it is OEM, and images of it are too common online for it to be ES.

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I know from Windows and the label that it's a GTS 8800 512mb, I just can't pin point the exact model..

I am pretty sure it's some OEM or ES gpu, maybe evga as it says "e-GeForce..."?

 

 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Sanedish said:

I know from Windows and the label that it's a GTS 8800 512mb, I just can't pin point the exact model..

I am pretty sure it's some OEM or ES gpu, maybe evga as it says "e-GeForce..."?

I think it is a founders edition card (Or atleast that is what we'd call it today).

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-8800-gts-512.c758

 

The lack of any other branding makes it very unlikely that it is OEM, and images of it are too common online for it to be ES.

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Nvidia marketing of the time includes photos of a card that looks identical to yours. I forget, were they doing "founders edition" cards back then even if they were called something else?

 

https://hothardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-8800-gts-refresh-asus-and-xfx

 

If it was from a board partner like EVGA, I'd expect their logo to be on the cooler.

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I forget, were they doing "founders edition" cards back then even if they were called something else?

Just remembered: "reference cards", pretty sure that was the old term for them.

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4 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

I think it is a founders edition card (Or atleast that is what we'd call it today).

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-8800-gts-512.c758

 

The lack of any other branding makes it very unlikely that it is OEM, and images of it are too common online for it to be ES.

That would make sense, funny I didn't even consider that being the case lol, thanks.

Still unsure about the e-GeForce though..

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Just now, jaslion said:

Not often. Most of the time these were made generic as can be

I meant the cards they branded and sold under their own name. Back in the day, those cards would get big logos and a mural that looked like it came off the side of a '70s custom conversion van.

 

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If they were contracted to build the reference cards for Nvidia, they'd only bear Nvidia branding.

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9 minutes ago, Sanedish said:

That would make sense, funny I didn't even consider that being the case lol, thanks.

Still unsure about the e-GeForce though..

It looks to me like "e-GeForce" was a term only used by EVGA...

 

Kinda wondering if the label is wrong... Or maybe it is an "EVGA overclocked reference card" (if such a thing ever existed?).

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12 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

It looks to me like "e-GeForce" was a term only used by EVGA...

 

Kinda wondering if the label is wrong... Or maybe it is an "EVGA overclocked reference card" (if such a thing ever existed?).

Maybe the original owner damaged the EVGA cooler and put a stock one on?

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15 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

I meant the cards they branded and sold under their own name. Back in the day, those cards would get big logos and a mural that looked like it came off the side of a '70s custom conversion van.

 

image.thumb.jpeg.b515463f3914ad60fea02f5526e920e7.jpeg

 

If they were contracted to build the reference cards for Nvidia, they'd only bear Nvidia branding.

Oh yeah those sure. But there were a lot of these generic looking geforce cards and they often remaind unbranded. At best a sticker of the logo was slapped on. This was common. I have a couple and one has under the cooler an evga identifier,msi one too and another from bfg. These were gpu's in custom gaming pcs and you could just purchase them as a nvidia branded 8800gts probably not meant to happen but it did often enough.

 

Then yes of course you had the sticker cards these couple gens were known for 😛

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