$299 Geforce 8800GTS coming in Feb.

[SunnyD]

One these come down to the sub-$200 level, THIS my friends becomes your physics card for all those 680i and 590 motherboard out there.

 

[Cookie Monster]

It wont come down to sub 200 dollar range. The $199 market will be replaced soon with 8600GT just like the 7600GT/6600GT. G84 i think it was. (or was it G86?)

 

[MotF Bane]

Midrange is coming in a few months (assuming all goes well).
That should push standard GTS and GTX prices around a bit, and hammer the X1900 series into the ground. (Actually, any guesses on what will happen to the GTX pricing and the available supply after midrange is released? Don't they usually kill the original cores in favor of the newer midrange cards?)
ATI would have issues cutting the X1900 prices down far enough to compete, because they still need the R&D influx to support figuring the issues with R600.

Summation: If ATI doesn't seriously hurry up, they're ******. You fill in the blank.

 

[Nelsieus]

Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Midrange is coming in a few months (assuming all goes well).
That should push standard GTS and GTX prices around a bit, and hammer the X1900 series into the ground. (Actually, any guesses on what will happen to the GTX pricing and the available supply after midrange is released? Don't they usually kill the original cores in favor of the newer midrange cards?)
ATI would have issues cutting the X1900 prices down far enough to compete, because they still need the R&D influx to support figuring the issues with R600.

Summation: If ATI doesn't seriously hurry up, they're ******. You fill in the blank.

I think Dailytech said mid-range R600 in June, and mid-range G84/G86 in April or May.

Nelsieus

 

[Cookie Monster]

R600 maybe delayed due to reasons, but it doesnt mean the other chips are late e.g R630/R610. The low/mid range R6x0 is already ready to be launched in the mobile section.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Good news on both ends. Good move by nVidia and when this drops you will find the x1950xtx drop to around the $200 mark, so everyone wins. Please quit making broad assupmtions based on your biases people, you impress nobody but stupid kids.

 

[VooDooAddict]

Originally posted by: Pr0d1gy
Good news on both ends. Good move by nVidia and when this drops you will find the x1950xtx drop to around the $200 mark, so everyone wins. Please quit making broad assupmtions based on your biases people, you impress nobody but stupid kids.

:Q
:roll:

 

[postmortemIA]

you all are forgetting one thing: you need darn fast CPU (2.4GHz+ A64 or 2.133GHz+ C2D) for 8800 series.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Modular

Originally posted by: Maxspeed996

Originally posted by: Journer
are these AGP?

Question of the century!!

They fo0kin should be.

I mean all it takes is what, a $10 bridge chip?

 

[VooDooAddict]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
you all are forgetting one thing: you need darn fast CPU (2.4GHz+ A64 or 2.133GHz+ C2D) for 8800 series.

It's a good thing to keep in mind... 8800s still need a beefy CPU.

 

[mlambert890]

You dont "need" a high-end CPU for the 8800. You "need" a high CPU in games where you are CPU bound. At high resolutions, and even in mid-resolutions with all effects enabled, games have been starting to outstrip what the X1900 and 7900 can deliver. You can just look at the reviews and see that even with AMD X2 CPUs the 8800 delivers improvement.

As for the 320MB RAM on this GTS light, thats more of a deal breaker for me than people here seem to realize. There are plenty of games where the max quality texture set requires 512MB RAM. Its not a resolution issue, its a texture complexity issue. A 512MB texture set is a 512MB texture set. Since I have a 512MB card now, theres no way I would reconfigure games that support a 512MB card *down* a level.

Interesting card, maybe, for the *seriously* budget constrained, but personally I'd just stick with the 8800GTS (or GTX) or save even MORE money and wait for whatever "GT" edition is coming.

 

[Aberforth]

Originally posted by: mlambert890
You dont "need" a high-end CPU for the 8800. You "need" a high CPU in games where you are CPU bound. At high resolutions, and even in mid-resolutions with all effects enabled, games have been starting to outstrip what the X1900 and 7900 can deliver. You can just look at the reviews and see that even with AMD X2 CPUs the 8800 delivers improvement.

As for the 320MB RAM on this GTS light, thats more of a deal breaker for me than people here seem to realize. There are plenty of games where the max quality texture set requires 512MB RAM. Its not a resolution issue, its a texture complexity issue. A 512MB texture set is a 512MB texture set. Since I have a 512MB card now, theres no way I would reconfigure games that support a 512MB card *down* a level.

Interesting card, maybe, for the *seriously* budget constrained, but personally I'd just stick with the 8800GTS (or GTX) or save even MORE money and wait for whatever "GT" edition is coming.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/29/geforce_8800_needs_the_fastest_cpu/

 

[REMF]

shame it uses the same PCB, i'd get it if would fit in my LC16-M case.

 

[Smartazz]

Is it me or is it every time you buy a high end card a much better replacement comes? I just got an 8800GTS 640mb, maybe the extra ram will help at res. like 1920 by 1080.

 

[ibex333]

Question:

What are the odds of ATI or Nvidia releasing another card after this one shortly with exactly the same power or better, but with more memory?

a)odds are good.

b)odds are not so good.

I'm thinking of jumping on the $300 Nvidia wagon, but 320mb is just so little for the price in the world of rapidly advancing technologies... If another card comes out at about $200 soon with the same power, then I would have wasted my money.