EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT SSC

EVGA is well known for their history of providing some of the best warranty and tech support in the business. EVGA’s lifetime warranty is one of the most comprehensive warranty programs in the industry. Not only are EVGA’s cards covered for as long as you own the card, the warranty even covers you if you mod your card. Say for instance you want to swap out the stock graphics card cooler for a more powerful unit from another manufacturer. Under most warranty programs you void your warranty the minute you remove the stock cooling unit, but EVGA’s lifetime warranty isn’t voided: as long as you don’t physically damage the card in the process of modding it, you’re covered by the EVGA warranty. One important aspect of EVGA’s warranty though is that you must register your card with EVGA before the lifetime warranty kicks in. If your card is never registered, the EVGA warranty is limited to just one year.

EVGA’s tech support is also outstanding. Besides providing 24/7 toll-free tech support for North American card owners, EVGA also provides very good support on their message boards at evga.com. Their forums are monitored actively by EVGA support employees, where you’ll find them answering end users support questions on a daily basis.



Because of their excellent service/support and warranty, EVGA has earned a loyal following of enthusiasts, but another feature that sets them apart from others is their Step Up upgrade program. With Step Up, you can trade in your existing EVGA graphics card for a faster EVGA model, provided the upgrade occurs within 90 days of the original card purchase. Say for instance you pick up a GeForce 8800 GT SSC today, and a month from now your tax rebate check comes in and you decide you want to upgrade to a GeForce 8800 Ultra. With EVGA’s Step Up program, you’ll get the full value of your original GT card, so if you paid $300 for your old card and you want to upgrade to a $500 card, you merely pay the difference of $200.

The only downside to Step Up is that you can only use it once, so you’ll have to choose when to use Step Up wisely.


EVGA has also developed a reputation for delivering excellent game bundles with their cards. Last year EVGA bundled many of their GeForce 8800 GT and GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB cards with newly released games like Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Crysis.

The e-GeForce 8800 GTS SSC is the flagship of EVGA’s GeForce 8800 GT lineup. The card is clocked at 700MHz on the graphics core, and 1.0GHz on the memory. These are the same speeds as the ASUS EN8800 GT TOP, placing both of these cards at the extreme high-end of the GeForce 8800 GT market when it comes to performance. In fact, both of these cards can outperform a stock GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB in some cases.


The board design of the e-GeForce 8800 GTS SSC follows NVIDIA’s reference design to the letter. No deviations are made on the board itself or its cooling. Other than the supercharged clock speeds, the SSC Edition card is identical to other GeForce 8800 GT boards EVGA offers in their lineup. If you’d like to save a little money, EVGA offers three additional GeForce 8800 GT SKUs, the e-GeForce 8800 GT KO, which runs at 675MHz core/975MHz memory, the e-GeForce 8800 GT Superclocked (650/950), and finally the e-GeForce 8800 GT, which runs at the standard GeForce 8800 GT clock speeds.