Gainward

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Gainward
Type
Founded	1984
Headquarters
Industry	Computer industry
Products	Graphics cards
Website	www.gainward.net

Gainward is a computer hardware company which produces graphics cards. Their graphic cards are exclusively based on NVIDIA chipsets. Gainward products are famous for their overclockability. The company has also recently released cards that deviate from the reference specifications set forth by NVIDIA.^{[citation needed]} They have released a 20 pixel pipeline 7800GS AGPs with 512 MiB of memory (based on the G70 core), and a 24 pixel pipeline 7800GS+ AGP video card with 512 MiB of memory (based on the G71 7900gt core).

Gainward is well known for their famous 'Golden Sample' range of graphics cards. These cards are overclocked past their stock speeds and tested before they are sold, to ensure quality for their customers. Current examples of 'Golden Sample' cards are; nVidia 7900GS, 7900GT, 7950GT and 8800GT. At one stage 'Golden Sample' cards came with a "Free 2 Choose" game voucher which could be redeemed for a downloaded game from www.gainwardgamingzone.com . The 'Golden Sample' cards now come packaged with a free game.

Gainward had a gap in which they did not produce anything new but they started producing again with the nVidia 8800 GTS series which has brought them back up to date with other companies such as Gigabyte and PNY.