BFG 7800GTX OC

[Jassi]

Originally posted by: yekim
Its real simple guys - don't buy these cards and prices will drop - classic supply and demand. If there is no demand, they have to lower prices to create it.

But then everyone buys and the prices shoot back up.



There is no solution

 

[CyberDrgn]

Normally i'd say $550 is insane, but this card does seem to be as fast as 2 6800's, which makes it not bad relative to other high end vid cards, and the fact that its got 300 million transistors just amazes me. The part is probably actually worth it in more ways then you ussually see. Plus you can add a 2nd in sli for whenever doom 7 or half 5 comes out.
Hope this isn't too much opinion for the hot deal forums, but the 300m transistors amazes me enough to say this is worth it if your into top of the line graphics. Still way outta my price range anyhow

 

[TekDemon]

Originally posted by: Moltres
A $250 vid card won't do nuthin for me. World of Warcraft at 1900x1200 on my Dell 24" with a 6800 Ultra bogs down to a slideshow with all details turned on. $599 is nothing to pay for something I use so much...but $1200 is alot for SLI and another $500 for a new SLI motherboard is hard to take.

You need to upgrade your CPU and RAM, not your Video Card, because my unlocked 6800NU has no problems video wise since the CPU is the limiting factor, it runs the same speed whether I have it at 1680x1050 with 4X FSAA and 16XAF on, or if I have it at 1024x768.

WoW is not the kinda game that you need to buy a $600 video card for, unless you already have some secret 7Ghz CPU (since WoW doesn't support multiple CPUs) and have somehow actually become video bottlenecked. In which case you probably already get 60+FPS anyways so it'd still be kinda pointless.

Anyways I'm still plenty happy with the GeForce 6800NU 256MB I scored for $200 brand new. Need to replace the POS stock cooler though since it's crappy and noisy. That and some creative soldering (teeeheeeheee) are the only upgrades in my video future though

 

[ezland00]

dammit, time to sell my car.

 

[imported_Dhaval00]

tsk tsk...wait for 6 more months and we'll see if this $549.99 + Tax was worth it :S. You'll have the best possible gaming card...maybe for 6 months??? LOL.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Only?

 

[zendari]

This could potentially be hotter in a few days.

Right now the card is $540 (10% off) but out of stock. Best buy has a $50 off $500 purchase deal going on.

If the card comes back in stock, both of these will stack. I tried adding a 6800 GT to cart, it comes out as

$399 - 10% = $359 - $30 ($10 per $100 up to $500) = $329 + tax + $4 shipping

For the 7800 GTX that becomes

$599 - 10% = $539 - $50 ($10 per $100 up to $500) = $489 + tax + $4 shipping. Comes to $518 with a 6% salestax.

 

[iwearnosox]

They pulled the 7800gtx from their site.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

I still see it, but I dunna think you can buy.

here

 

[Sparke]

You can probably do "Customer Fulfillment" order by going to a store and asking an employee, but you won't be able to use the $50 off $500 coupon because it's an online-only coupon. The SKU is 7275986.

 

[KristopherKubicki]

There is a hotter Dell deal right now that has it for about $100 cheaper. Look for that thread.

Kristopher