8800GT (G92) reviews thread

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  1. swaaye

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    I would expect any new high-end part to be $500+, especially at launch, and for months to come after that. 8800GTX is still well over $400. I'm not sure whether NV will just replace their high-end and go with the same price point, or create a new $600+ part.

    I read that they just end-of-lifed G80 though, so they may be clearing out inventory now before they devalue it by replacing it at its price point.
     
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    8800 GTX is still over $500, actually. Granted, you can occasionally pickup a Foxconn version for slightly under $500, but what self-respecting enthusiast would buy anything from Foxconn? :p

    GF9 high-end part will launch @ no less than $600. You can bet on that.
     
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    Just wait until january when NV finally start shiping volume from G92 based cards, than 512mb gts price drop to the current (270-280$) GT level.
    Gts not have too much performance incrase against gt but the cooler much better (no cooler change needed for ~40$) and GPU/shader has insane OC'ing capability, so its can be a good buy, the situation now is different, GTS overpriced, GT better deal if you can buy one close to msrp, and buy a Arctic Cooling S1 cooler + 120mm fan :smile:
     
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    600$ looks low because ATi not even has a perofrmance competative card against NV 4th fastest card, (ULTRA,G92GTS,GTX,G92GT) 799$ MSRP can come easily, ATi won't have any answer until late Q2, enthusiast users not care about prices so NV can sell card in price what they want. (they do already many times, last time with the 8800ultra).
     
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    The HD 3870 is more than competitive with the 8800 GT, and the GTS is only slightly faster than that. I'd say they're not competitive in the enthusiast segment (8800 Ultra, GTX) but still competitive in the performance segment.
     
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    Without filters.
    With filters the performance difference much bigger than the price difference.
    When game run smooth (most of the new games come out in 2007 H2) with filters whats the reason run it without it? (of course hd3870 can run games with filters too at playable frames, but the FPS drop much higher than with 8800gt, so 8800gt less drop can be good where every fps counting)

    This is why i not see 3870 as real competative product, and there is some more black points, like the 8800gt hard to find any 3870 card and sell higher than MSRP, so im not happy about this cards.
    I know ATi do they best and made some step forward, but still not enough, not i'm the only who think this.
     
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    And then you throw 8x AA into the mix and the 3870 is faster than the 8800 GT across the gammut of popular games. Source: computerbase.de (continues onto next page for aggregate 8x AA results).

    Even @ 4x AA the 3870 gives the 8800 GT a run for its money, especially as the resolution increases.
     
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    Just count how many games in this test with 8xaa 16xaf has playable framerates already at 1280x1024.

    Check the review i linked, its newer.

    Lack of competative HW is only one bad thing, there is huge problems in vista drivers performance wise, not exist dev support, what cause problems like can't play games without bugs at day1, need to wait for proper drivers what maybe come weeks after game released.

    Well we see in Q4 market share numbers eary next year what most of the customers think about it, only good thing for ATi is NV miss the supply on demand and ATi at least with the 3850 not miss it, or noone buy this card what hard to belive because its sell at MSRP (179$) and really has a great price peformance ratio until 256mb GT arrive in high volume what is far far away.
     
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    I decided to get the 8800GT for my bro. I went with the EVGA superclocked model. It seems to have the new cooler with the larger diameter fan. A nice surprise.

    http://en.expreview.com/?p=78
     
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    Funny OC'ed GT slower than the reference at 1280x1024 :smile:

    In other games there is no significant difference between 512mb and 1024mb version.
     
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    I would expect COH to have such high frame buffer requirements. I'd like to see this tested with DIRT.
     
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    Actually, many popular brands are now $450-$459 (after MIR :razz: )
     
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    Indeed I do! Yeah they are a pain, but they do almost always come as long as you follow the annoying instructions to the letter.... I wish Best Buy still had their HDD rebates. Years ago I used to get $40 80-120gb hard drives that way, blowing away online prices.

    BTW, the new cooler on 8800GT is very quiet. Inaudible when idle and it doesn't seem to spin up much in games.
     
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    My luck with MIRs has been pretty bad, such that I just gave up on them altogether. The only MIR I hold out hope for is my 5 free Blu-ray titles which I just sent in the forms for a couple weeks ago.
     
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    Took me 8 months to get in the rebate for my case. Pretty crappy stuff. I send them in but they usually take so longer or don't work (why must I call the company about their rebate form!?) so I never consider it in the purchase price.
     
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    Wow .. colour me impressed. The 1GB is awesome. I want. :)

    US
     
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    Less conventional review of GeForce 8800 GT

    I have created a little bit less conventional review of GeForce 8800 GT: I've taken an average computer (dual-core @ 2,3 GHz) and I have tried what's the smartest upgrade from Radeon X1950 Pro: - second Radeon X1950 Pro in CrossFire, relativelly cheap Radeon HD 3850 256 MB or mentioned GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB? Is the fast, but more expensive GeForce 8800 GT limited with such CPU even in modern games

    http://www.extrahardware.cz/radeon-x1950-pro-upgrade-crossfire-hd-3850-or-8800

    "Radeon X1950 Pro is thanks to it's great price/performance ratio in the PC's of many users. But because of new games like many of you is thinking about upgrade. We have tested what is your best choice: buy second X1950 Pro for CrossFire, or change X1950 Pro for Radeon HD 3850 or straight go for more expensive GeForce 8800 GT? All answers in 17 game tests."
     
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