Every once in while an advert for a company sponsored contest appears. I figure that they already have my "junk" email address from registering the stuff I bought, so entering can't hurt. I'm always sure my chances of winning are next to nil. Turns out I was wrong.
Gigabyte is a sponsor of the "Kode5 Global Gaming Revolution" competitive gaming tournaments. As a tie-in to that, through the winter, they ran the "GIGABYTE Guerrilla Gear" website contest. I won the sixth place prize - a fairly nice mid-rage, passively cooled graphics card. (I can provide a link to the prize list as proof, if needed.) Since they no longer had that card in stock, they sent me an upscale 8800 GT based card with a integrated Zalman cooler.
I'm not a gamer, so that much GPU power is wasted on me. Also, sadly, I don't even own a system with a PCI-E slot at the moment. Perhaps this can partially finance an upgrade, or maybe buy new glasses for these failing old eyes. So . . .
For Sale: 1 x Gigabyte GV-NX88T512HP Video Card
Price: Negotiable, but not too far south of retail. Make me an offer I can't refuse. I'm also willing to consider a trade, for parts of equivalent value.
Condition: New - never used. Ok, so I couldn't resist peeking in the box, but have never broken the seal on the static safe bag with the card in it (or any other seals). [There is a two inch tear on the back of the outer sleeve box -- that's exactly how it arrived from Gigabyte. I will send/post picture if needed.]
Specs:
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
512MB 1.8GHZ DDR3 Ram
PCI-E 2.0 16x
Dual DVI-I HDCP HDTV Out
Component, S-Video, & Composite Out via included dongle
DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0 & OpenGL 2.0 support
112 Stream Processor
Supports SLI and PureVideo HD technology
Features an Ultra Quiet Zalman Aluminum/Copper GPU Cooler
- looks like a VF700-AlCu
Includes NeverWinter Nights 2
Ian