I recently upgraded to a pair of EVGA GTX 680 FTW 4GB cards from my HD6950s.

 

The cards arrived and I noticed that the boxes actually said FTW LE. I was surprised but for the most part it seemed this was just a small marketing addition so I went ahead and installed them. The cards in SLI ran great and were seemingly an improvement from the old setup. However the LE moniker disturbed me. However with work stress that issue went to the bottom of my list.

 

Today I received a notification that Newegg had the FTW+ cards back in stock so I called EVGA to inquire as to what I was "missing". Apparently the FTW Standard cards I ordered are a factory OC version of the PCB that the LE, FTW, FTW+, and Classified use with GPUs binned for the OC. The cards sent were not what I ordered. I let EVGA know about this and then called Newegg know they are incorrectly listing cards and charging the wrong price. Newegg customer service was helpful, refunded me, and shipped me the FTW+ cards with Next Day shipping at no charge.

 

A summary of EVGA card awesomeness from Amazingly Awesome to Awesome:

 

Classified

FTW+

FTW

FTW LE

SC

 

Hope this helps others understand the designations EVGA uses. Also some kudos to Newegg for doing the right thing and admitting their error and looking out for me...the customer.

 

Dan

 

 

I recently upgraded to a pair of EVGA GTX 680 FTW 4GB cards from my HD6950s.

 

The cards arrived and I noticed that the boxes actually said FTW LE. I was surprised but for the most part it seemed this was just a small marketing addition so I went ahead and installed them. The cards in SLI ran great and were seemingly an improvement from the old setup. However the LE moniker disturbed me. However with work stress that issue went to the bottom of my list.

 

Today I received a notification that Newegg had the FTW+ cards back in stock so I called EVGA to inquire as to what I was "missing". Apparently the FTW Standard cards I ordered are a factory OC version of the PCB that the LE, FTW, FTW+, and Classified use with GPUs binned for the OC. The cards sent were not what I ordered. I let EVGA know about this and then called Newegg know they are incorrectly listing cards and charging the wrong price. Newegg customer service was helpful, refunded me, and shipped me the FTW+ cards with Next Day shipping at no charge.

 

A summary of EVGA card awesomeness from Amazingly Awesome to Awesome:

 

Classified

FTW+

FTW

FTW LE

SC

 

Hope this helps others understand the designations EVGA uses. Also some kudos to Newegg for doing the right thing and admitting their error and looking out for me...the customer.

 

Dan

 

Interesting, gonna have to check my card too. :-)

 

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