My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

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  • System
    Member
    • Jun 2006
    • 1091

    #1

    My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

    Hey guys, I posted about this a while back and here is the shizzel dizzel I can offer to those of you interested in this program offered by EVGA.


    First off, let me just say how annoyed I am as it took nearly 2week me thinks for them to finally approve me. Why it took so long is because the people @ EVGA do not believe in picture viewing utilities that enable the zoom in feature. I ended up sending my receipts three times to them even though the second one was perfectly fine. Not to mention, the response time was horrible on the second time I sent them my receipt (almost a week) at which point I resent my my second e-mail again to them.

    Basically, I had to e-mail them 4 times over the course of 2 weeks. Another crappy thing is that I wanted to talk to someone from EVGA over the phone first but couldn't find the line I wanted. After getting frustrated I gave up and just stuck to e-mailing.

    Anyways, onto the actual step up part, the part I so far do not understand. I spent 750ish CDN on my GTX and right now can pick up an Ultra for less. However, apparently it will cost $78 more to upgrade this GTX to an ULTRA and with shipping it will be $93 bringing the final price tag to a total of $843 spent on the lone video card.

    Well thats the deal. I'm not sure if it is really worth stepping up my card now seeing how the prices don't seem to add up right. Any thoughts?

    GTX



    Ultra

  • solofowaffles
    Member
    • May 2006
    • 4306

    #2
    Re: My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

    you cant use stores to judge the price,they tell you this.

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    • Stormy{CAN}
      Member
      • Apr 2007
      • 958

      #3
      Re: My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

      Originally posted by stephensolfo
      you cant use stores to judge the price,they tell you this.
      Yep. Evga bases the Stepup price on the MSRP listed on the product page on their site,



      which is currently at $699US, and don't expect it to ever change either.

      It is fairly easy to figure out what it will cost you. Take what you paid for the card before any taxes or shipping (and if there was a rebate, do not deduct it from the original cost), convert that to $US and subtract that from the $699 Evga has shown for the card. Then you can add in what it will cost to ship the card, and if you use Evga's recommend UPS Air, you're looking at around $60 CDN to get it there. You can find out just about anything about the Stepup program on Evga's forum,

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      • System
        Member
        • Jun 2006
        • 1091

        #4
        Re: My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

        I wasn't asking how I got the price tag they gave me. Yes I read that EVGA does not base there products pirces off of stores but it sounds backwards that EVGA directly will cost more vs a store. Oh well.

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        • twoblacklines

          #5
          Re: My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

          why bother, just overclock your gtx. done.

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          • System
            Member
            • Jun 2006
            • 1091

            #6
            Re: My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

            I don't think you can OC the shader though.

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            • Sir. MatDef
              Member
              • Sep 2005
              • 2899

              #7
              Re: My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

              Originally posted by System
              I don't think you can OC the shader though.
              The shader is tied to the gpu core clock, so when you increase that you increase the shader clock too.

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              • System
                Member
                • Jun 2006
                • 1091

                #8
                Re: My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

                Oh sweet. Well I don't think I'm going to waste my time with the step up program anyways. I have no need for the ultra, I just wanted the name and already "OC GTX" in my case. I suppose I'll just have to learn how to use rivatuner better.

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                • solofowaffles
                  Member
                  • May 2006
                  • 4306

                  #9
                  Re: My Step up! EVGA GTX -> ULTRA

                  dont fry your cards

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