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- brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Reviews for the 8800 have been out for well over a month. Why is this on the hardware front page?
- combustion8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Just the thought of having two of those makes me moist a little.
- kazimir34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5$1,200 for two graphic cards is indeed a little "pricey", and somewhat useless.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There are people out there who like to have the latest and greatest. Call me crazy, but I love having the newest hardware and I'm willing to pay for it (newegg prices that is.)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I don't see why anybody would buy this. Not only is it crazy expensive, but it's a first gen dx10 card. The only time you should really upgrade your gfx card is when they're halfway between one version of directx and the other (so when 11 is announced, go buy a card, this way you get that really fast card you want, without the early adopter bugs and at a lower price).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Or I could still buy them now and not wait half a year. Think of it this way, if no one bought them when the cards come out, then you wont be able to get it at a discounted price as fast.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I saw 60FPS difference in Oblivion, 40FPS in Company of Heroes, 40FPS in Never Winter Nights, compared to the previous top of the line 7950GX2, I think 8800 was of the greatest nVidia releases to date
.... in other words @noseeme, "what are you talking about mate?" - brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4From the summary: "Following closely with NVIDIA's reference design"
If I buy one of these, write my name on it with a sharpy, and re-title a dated review do I get a front page digg story? - Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Honestly, I bought one for DX9 graphics. While its DX10 capabilities is a good bonus I didn't care much, I only wanted a top of the line card to replace my aging FX5700 (3 years old card). People said me to buy x1950xtx for $550, I bought 8800GTX for $600 and I never regretted about it, it's twice as fast as any other card out there. You may say it is too pricey but since it is 3 times faster from a $250 card, I say "I don't think so".
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Poor chap...
I had a 9600 Pro for ages, and (fairly) recently upgraded to a GeForce 6800 GS (AGP version, by BFG).
It unlocks and overclocks quite nicely, and I no longer consider 20fps acceptable. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wow. i feel sorry for my 9600XT, it is crying as i type this...
- combustion8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2well I know for a fact in Vanguard alone its a 30fps difference... compared to my 7800gt anyway.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I hate you....
"well I know for a fact in Vanguard alone its a 30fps difference."
Is it a 600 dollar difference for you? - shredswithpiks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think he meant a 4 - 5 fps difference in the ASUS flavor of 8800 when compared to the previous flavors of 8800s...
- Terrx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@chaimpot0k
Your almost right. Both XFX and BFG make overclocked 8800GTXs. However, the eVGA w/ ACS3 is one of the higher clocked 8800GTXs I have seen.
eVGA 8800 GTX KO ACS³ - 626 MHz.
BFG 8800 GTX OC - 600 MHz
XFX 8800 GTX XXX - 630 MHz
EDIT: (card in article is clocked at 575 MHz) - crcurran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nVidia makes cards on a six month rotation. For example they will put out a the 6xxx line of cards and then six months later put out a revision to the 6xxx line. Six months later again they will put out a 7xxx line of cards.
Always wait for the mid year line. they always run cooler and quieter.
So wait till June or so for an updated Dx10 card. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2but by waiting half a year, you could buy two of those cards for the price of one!
Not to mention that the bottleneck at this point in time IS NOT the graphics card, they said this in every page of this benchmark. We need faster processors if we plan on going forward with this whole DX10 thing. I'd like to see them test this card with one of those new quad core intels, then we wouldn't see the save ceiling being hit every benchmark. - LordSpam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah I had a little windfall of cash and bought the evga version of the same card and I couldn't be happier. I've never owned the top of the line (at least for a few months) card before. And I have an SLI ready mobo so when it does drop in price I can slap another one in there. This card is a freaking monster though. It's about 14 in long and takes two PCIx power inputs.
- combustion8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I plan on getting one soon, my 7800gt is getting dated already, vanguard only runs at 30fps on average.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What DX10 games? There are none yet.
- heebus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, the card itself out performs all DX9 cards. Why not just take the chance on a DX10 system. The resell value would still be high. DX10 won't even have it's full force until next year.
You say, why, and I say Why not. - BlackKnight6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@chaimpot0k
Actually there are eVGA, BFG and XFX G80s that are factory overclocked. As for the article, it was a joke, these drivers were known to be buggy, goto another site like tomshardware where the 8800GTX actually beats my 7900GTX... - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I make it a habit avoiding video cards that cost more than an entire console. You'll always wind up upgrading your card every two years anyway. Not because the hardware gets outdated, but because there will be a new version of DX and your expensive card won't support the new shader spec.
So I'm waiting for the ~$200 8600 Ultra. - GhostCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's mostly because Vanguard runs like crap on everyone's system. I have 2 gigs of ram, an X2 4400, and a 7900gt, yet the game still lags.
- jman8888, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But dont be retarted. 1gb ram come on!
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Throw DX10 games at it allready!... I want to know how well of a DX10 card it is.
- mirunit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hopefully these card will go down to the 399 range from up at 599. Then I could see SLI being more viable, but right now 1200$ - you are right, wow.
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1They can't force them to comply with the new standard, but yes, in time more and more DX10 compatible cards will be produced and sold, so devs will start to use it.
I wish OpenGL was used in more games... - Reizors, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I have one, because i run a 30" dell flatscreen LCD, and i need the GTX to game at 60FPS locked.
I play all the latest games, and they run locked at 60FPS fine, on highest all graphics, it gets choppy, but i just use 1-2x AA and thats all i need, and the rest of the graphics turned up, then it runs full FPS of the refresh rate, when i vertical sync.
Very Good graphics card! - Ignotus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Enough people liked (dig) the article that it made front page. It doesn't mean it's good or current or anything else. I get sick of people crying about ***** being on the front page. Get over it. If you don't like it, bury the article and don't waste your time reading it. It's a site to digg articles that you like. If you didn't like it, don't dig it.
- chaimpot0k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1vurfleth dugg up, story buried. All 8800 cards run at the same clocks and have the reference cooler (the exception being eVGA with ACS3). Your ASUS will perform the same as your XFX and your BFG. nVidia does not allow factory overclocking on the G80 after what happened with the G71.
- imanewbie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Supposedly Microsoft is going to actually require that graphics card manufacturer's support the new DX10 features, so that programmers will be more likely to take advantage of them. So maybe it will be a worthwile upgrade after all.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Before I read the article, I predict a 2 FPS difference behind Nvidia's previous best.
EDIT: Awww, I was SOOO off. It was more like 4 - 5. What a huge difference! :| - CPUGUy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0But it's not 3x faster, you'll get a few extra frames per second.
I can't believe how much people are willing to spend on this stuff.
Did you put it on your credit card too?
Not going into debt for a piece of hardware that will be obselete in less than a year. I am just going to milk my GF6800 AGP with my far superior (than DDR2) CAS2 DDR1 RAM for as long as I can. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1This is for the new ASUS 8800GTX, not the nvidia one.
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