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Post Date: 2008-06-21
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    Posted: 21 Jun 2008 at 10:24pm
Say what?
 
Zotac cards beat other cards, or what?
 
Sorry harleyman, but I couldn't figure it out from that mumbo jumbo, you posted.
 
Consider revising .... :)
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Yea me either.
 
My Zotac 98GX2 is actually subpar...
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maybe its my case then, but i can only overclock my Zotac GX2's core by only about 10Mhz before it starts to overheat. 95+C
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The cards are reference. Zotac tends to offer some aggressively clocked models, so they will often do very well in benchmarks straight out of the box.
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Personally, I'm in love with XFX at the moment.  Still, I had a ZOTAC card a while back, and it preformed very well, so nothing against them.  It really comes down to what they clock the GPU/Shader clocks at.
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I have 2 Zotac 9800GTX on a 780i XFX motherboard, they seem quite nice to me... they are not overclocked and everything flies quite nicely and they idle at the 50 centigrade mark and hit high 60s under full load, I have had no problems thus far with air cooling (Stage II and 1 added 120mm case fan in a 950Si case)

I peg WOW the fps is off the charts, well over 200 FPS.
Conan with eye candy at high I run about 50-60 fps
Oblivion blazes I do not know the FPS but it does not stutter at all even outdoors at maximum

So I guess the Zotacs are doing allright by me.

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ZOTAC is a new name in the U.S., but, let me tell you, they are very good.
 
ZOTAC actually manufactuers their cards and they are very big in the oversea market.
 
We have had a very low failure rate with ZOTAC cards in our stability testing.
 
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My post was prompted by the over heating and junky comments as so far I do not see either of the above in my PC

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Originally posted by Alex

ZOTAC is a new name in the U.S., but, let me tell you, they are very good.
 
ZOTAC actually manufactuers their cards and they are very big in the oversea market.
 
We have had a very low failure rate with ZOTAC cards in our stability testing.
 
Warm Regards,
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Alex, but how do ZOTAC cards compare to EVGA cards?
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im content with my Zotac GX2 Alex, its only failed i think twice. Once was the first day i had the computer after 5 hours of Crysis goodness, i assume it just overheated over the time.
 
Im guessing the second time though im starting to think it was more the motherboard, but i was just mutlitasking on the net and i had about 3 internet pages open and was flipping between them when all of a sudden the screen just started plusing almost like the monitors refresh dropped to something low enough where the human eye could catch the refresh after about 10 seconds of this the computer hard froze.
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From our experience, ZOTAC has a lower failure rate than eVGA.

eVGA is very big here in the US, so they really don't have a lot to change, however, ZOTAC is new in the market, and I strongly believe they are doing their very best to ensure they sell only high-quality cards to get a good brand image.
 
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Originally posted by Alex

ZOTAC is a new name in the U.S., but, let me tell you, they are very good.
 
ZOTAC actually manufactuers their cards and they are very big in the oversea market.
 
We have had a very low failure rate with ZOTAC cards in our stability testing.
 
Warm Regards,
Alex
I do have some experiance with them, as I play with a lot of Euopeans, so I know a little about the brand. Still, my stock XFX 8600 can run COD4 around AVG 30 FPS with everything on Medium, 4xAA, 1600x980 (or 1600x900, whatever my moniter default is...).  Thats above what I expected, especially with the Pentium D I still have in there...
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Zotac is the sister company of Sapphire. I love Sapphire for ATI but would still prefer the support & lifetime warranty from EVGA, XFX, or Mushkin.
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