EVGA GTX 295 Red Editions Yeah they are back people of VA

Hey all ,

As many of you know I have had a pair of EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition but in the end I kinda had major regrets from selling them well about 2 weeks ago I found a matched pair of them on ebay, only it was a USA only sale, but after convincing the seller that I was really up for it, it all came out perfectly!

Anyhoo, here is what the kind post man delivered me this Saturday morning [sm=001_tt1.gif]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49047-2/2x+EVGA+GTX+295+RE+USA+_+Boxes.jpg]

I also managed to make this cool picture the EVGA Logo's reflect in my wooden table whata Flasher can do right [sm=laugh.gif]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49050-2/EVGA+GTX+295+RE+_+Boxes+in+table+reflection+a.jpg]

Top card is the New from RMA the bottom is the used one [:)] Both run great! [sm=001_tt1.gif]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49044-2/2x+EVGA+GeForce+GTX+295+Red+Edition++PCI_E+1792MB+896Bit+GDDR3+Rev_B1+4910+top.jpg]

As red as they can be right! [sm=001_wub.gif] Yeah I'm in luv with em EVGA comrades, always have been [sm=001_wub.gif]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49041-2/2x+EVGA+GeForce+GTX+295+Red+Edition++PCI_E+1792MB+896Bit+GDDR3+Rev_B1+4910+rear.jpg]

The EVGA GTX 295 RE's in SLI mode , the Art of Quad SLI in Ferarri Red is Back peeps! [sm=thumbup.gif]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49059-2/EVGA+GTX+295+RE+Quad+SLI+Headshot.jpg]

Here the Side Exhausts of the GTX 295 RE's [sm=001_smile.gif] Lots of hot air come out of them side exhausts, interesting design a lot like 9800 GX2 was, to which was probably used to design this heh [sm=001_smile.gif]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49062-2/EVGA+GTX+295+RE+Quad+SLI+Side+Exhausts.jpg]

And here is how the look like in my system! [sm=001_tt1.gif] Even Darth Malgus Approves [sm=lol.gif]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49035-1/Darth+Malgus+_amp_+Blue+Leader+SMP+2009.jpg]

The two mighty reds taken from the side [:)]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49032-2/Blue-Leader+SMP+2009+Reunited+with+Quad+SLI+EVGA+GTX+295+Red+Editions.jpg]

The EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Editions in Blue Leader SMP 2009 & the EVGA GeForce GTX 480 in Firefox SMP 2006 Both stand out very nice [sm=drool.gif]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49025-2/Blue-Leader+_amp_+Firefox+Powered+By+EVGA.jpg]

Here a closeup of the GTX 295 RE's without the Side panel:

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49038-2/GTX+295+RE_s+all+set+good+to+go+zoomed.jpg]

But yeah there you have it VA people, after so many years searching I found these ultra rare gems and Quad SLI runs very well, so far I have not stumbled upon any issues, I am using Forceware 286.65 WHQL, kinda reminds me of 197.45 WHQL so far

Yaops they sure do, after looking around on the EVGA forums and other places I have found 6 other people that own 1 or more GTX 295 RE's most people have 1 or 2 and there is one person that has 4 of these red beauties for his Red Folding Farm, not the kind of purpose I would prefer to see them in heh.

Also this new HP ZR24w 24" S-IPS Panel arrived today
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4906…w+S-IPS+TFT.jpg

It has a 16:10 Aspect Ratio and a S-IPS/H2-IPS panel with a native Reso of 1920 x 1200 x32 it's response time is 5ms

Also a pair of 6 Core OpteronDP 2435 D0 Instanbul Opterons are on the way from USA, with those this system will be completed

Zitat von m14radu

Very nice cards Obi !

Thanks Radu! yeah they are red hay

well in DX10 and 9 one GTX 295 RE can out perform a gtx 480, only in DX11 and Open GL 4.0+ the GTX 480 will have the upperhand, due to the support of these API's.

So what I can do to measure relative performance of one GTX 295 versus my GTX 480 which I also have, is use BarsWF x64, it's a MD5 Hash benchmark utillity than can be used to measure the relative CUDA perormance of the cards which also supports Multi Processor CPU's and Multi GPGPU's it also takes advantage of GPGPU Precision Point which both the GTX 295's and GTX 480 have, this is something thatwas left out from the GTX 460 , 450 and all GeForce 500 series VGA's the GTX 480, GTX 470 and GTX 465 are the only Fermi based GPGPU's that have GPGPU Precision Point, this is a major advantage when it comes to heavily supported CUDA Programs like BarsWF x64.

More about BarsWF x64, go here:
http://3.14.by/en/md5

As for 3D mark? Well I don't do that nonsense, due to it's very u nprecise way of testing, I never liked it and I do not plan on running that messy software on my systems, just for the ones that might want to ask this BarsWF x64 is more better and way more precise.

They are very rare and extremely hard to obtain, it seems not many were sold nor produced.

Here all the known owners of these ultra rare cards:

SENJU from Tokyo Japan has 2 in his RED SUN PC
Wolf Team Leader has 4 for his Foldfarm from Perth , Western Australia
Fathey 007 from USA has 1
ALi from ALisPCVideo's Germany has 1
Rich from RniceSpecV USA has 1
Jkon 1977 from USA has 1
Gold Leader / Obi-Wan Kenobi / Tylosaurus [Me] from The Netherlands has 2

Number of EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition Owners & Cards World Wide:
Australia: 4
USA: 3
Japan: 2
The Netherlands: 2
Germany: 1

Total Amount od Owners: 7
Total Amount of Cards: 12

There might be more, but so far I have not found any other owners of these ultra rares.

Yer even that Iwas able to pick these of a USA Only EBAY Sale, it still took me a good 2 to 3 years to obtain, so hard to find these cards, like I said there might be a few more owners, I will try and ask EVGA how many were really made, Jacob Freeman might know more

Hey everyone

Today I ran BarsWF x64 andI wanted to find out how four GT200b's would do in that MD5 Hasher with their 960 CUDA cores in total, in practics 4x 240 CUDA Cores

When you are going to run BarsWF x64, do keep in mind that you must Disable SLI to run the application and if you want it to stop press Enter / Return and it will automatically end the test run

You can grab it from here btw:
http://3.14.by/en/md5

So this is what Two EVGA GTX 295 Red Editions do as relative CUDA Performance goes with MD5 Hashing:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4908…TX+295+RE_s.jpg

1x EVGA GTX 480 + 1x EVGA GTX 580 Super Clocked Edition does this:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4497…C+_480_+CPU.jpg

2x EVGA GTX 580 Super Clocked Edition Does this:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4544…8+CPU+Cores.jpg

So yeah 2x GTX 295 does about 2800 MD5 Hashes per sec as where 2x GTX 480 would do about 3000 MD5 Hashes per sec, even though they would do about 2x 100 MD5 Hashes per sec more than two GTX 295's, the GT200b's on the GTX 295's like the 295 RE's only run @ 576Mhz aswere the GF100's on the GTX 480's run 701Mhz each, so I am speculating that if the GT200b's like the GF100's would both run 576Mhz.

This would prove that the GT200b's would win hands down, this also means that GeForce Tesla 200 a/b is more powerful per CUDA core & per Mhz than GeForce Fermi 100/110 CUDA Cores are

This is how the Quad SLI and the Preferred PhysX GPU can be setup via the drivers:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4909…PhysX+Setup.jpg

With a pair of GTX 295 RE's you have the ability to have these FSAA modes:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4909…+FSAA+Modes.jpg

And since you do have 4 GPU's to your disposal, even being a Quad SLI setup, these are the Muli-GPU rendering modes you can choose from:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4909…dering+Mode.jpg

The new CPU's arrived today!

2x Six-Core AMD OpteronDP 2435 D0 Istanbuls, so here some sweet pics

Top view:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4912…+Istanbul+a.jpg

Tribute to 2CPU.com!
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4911…amp_+2435_s.jpg

The OpteronDP 2435 D0's installed
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4912…s+Installed.jpg

Speed : 2.60 GHz Count : 12
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4912…5+D0+bootup.jpg

BarsWF x64 with the Dual 6 Cores @ 12x 2.60Ghz + Hyper Transport 3.0 @ 2.4Ghz gave 443.87 MHash/sec:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4913…ual+2435+D0.jpg

BarsWF x64 with the Dual 4 Cores @ 8x 2.50Ghz + Hyper Transport 1.1 @ 1.0Ghz which was the old config only gave 270.70 MHash/sec
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4908…TX+295+RE_s.jpg

Maybe I should give GAT's benchmark a spin huh

Something nice arrived today the Brandless Hard PCB SLI Bridge Connector, giving my Quad SLI setup this look:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49163-2/new+Hard+PCB+SLI+Bridge+Connector.jpg]

The reason why I do this is so that it does not come in contact with the aluminium frame of the side fan, which is used to help the EVGA GTX 295 Red Editions get rid of their hot air they dispatch via their side exhausts:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49160-2/Hard+PCB+SLI+bridge+placed.jpg]

As for the finishing touch? This Hard PCB SLI Bridge Connector also makes the cards sit firm together in Quad SLI mode, as being a firm connection between the two giving this the finishing touch of the Quad SLI setup for this system:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49157-2/Blue+Leader_s+Quad+SLI+setup+complete.jpg]

And here the final pics of the finished result so far

The system with the side window panel in place:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49169-1/Blue-Leader+SMP+2009_s+EVGA+GTX+295+RE_s.jpg]

And the Entire setup it's self:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/49166-2/Blue-Leader+SMP+2009+100_+Complete.jpg]

So far the only upgrade I plan on giving it, is another 4x 4096MB PC2-6400 ECC Reg Kingston value Ram, just to give it 2.67GB of ram per CPU Core, hereby exceeding the limit of 2GB per core