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8800 GT - First Review

neocon said:
when are the 8800gt's being released? next week?

I paid £180 for 8800gtd 320 only 1 month ago. its going to be worth £100 in a few weeks?
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Probably. If the 8800 GT delivers as promised for £140 and is faster and has more memory, I guess that makes a 8800 GTS 320Mb 2nd hand worth much less.

Good news is, there are always plenty of muppets whi will take a week or two to notice so 8800 GTS prices won't drop straight away.

But the 2nd hand market is going to be flooded with 8800 GTS 320MB driving the price down even further.

If the 8800GT is all lies then nothing to worry about
 
Greebo said:
Probably. If the 8800 GT delivers as promised for £140 and is faster and has more memory, I guess that makes a 8800 GTS 320Mb 2nd hand worth much less.

Good news is, there are always plenty of muppets whi will take a week or two to notice so 8800 GTS prices won't drop straight away.

But the 2nd hand market is going to be flooded with 8800 GTS 320MB driving the price down even further.

If the 8800GT is all lies then nothing to worry about
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it will be better for people that have the cash to buy their 8800gt on release day and then they can flog their 8800gts pronto.
 
Greebo said:
I'm selling mine before all ten thousand of you lot satuate the market ;)
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Well my mate has just offered me £100 which I have agreed on - I am personally very happy with that price. Bought the card for 180 back when new and he has a 7800GT so would have a huge jump in performance!
 
lowrider007 said:
I'll eat my trilby if the GT comes out at £140 with the kind of performance we're seeing in these recent previews/reviews, it just wouldn't be good business sense.
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I feel the same unless gtx is upped aswell but i would think the Gt will be £200+ inbetween the 320 and 640.
 
lowrider007 said:
I'll eat my trilby if the GT comes out at £140 with the kind of performance we're seeing in these recent previews/reviews, it just wouldn't be good business sense.
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Gibbo, has already posted the price today, think you'll be eating your hat :eek:

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Still not rock solid trust able review imo.If you sell up now and it's not as good as projected you will be left with egg on your face.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Strange, read it fine in FF here.

Well obviously i never read it as its in Japanese, but the benchmarks i could see fine. :p
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It was stretched when I loaded it in firefox (out of curiosity), only half of it would fit on the screen at 1920x1200. Looked fine on Opera which is my default browser anyway.

Exciting benchmarks if accurate, might have to pick one up to tide me over until the 9800 series is here.
 
If the GT is £140 and close preformance to a GTX what is £300+ they will hurt their GTX sales unless the new GTX is upper a lot aswell.
I can understand if the new GTX is 20% faster than the old GTX and the same price,then you can warent a £160+ price tag difference from the GT.
 
So all these sites with the card yet they have no pics no game performance charts don't get this at all.
If any were reliable then we would sit here knowing the exact full details of the card and not second guessing what the ROP will be etc.
Think about it huh a £140 that is 8-10 fps in most things behind a £300+ card just doesn't add up if you ask me it would be a silly thing for nvidia to do.

Why would they do such a thing and force the profit margin on the gtx to come down, as if these claims are true then nobody is going to pay much more than £160 for a gtx come monday.And any retailer selling gtx's for more than £160 just won't be able to sell them.Would you pay £140 more for a gain of 10 fps in games ? i doubt anyone will.

So the real bargain here is not in fact the GT but the GTX which will have to drop dramatically if these claims are proved to be correct.

Until i see a legit review i remain skeptical, i still would put everything i have on these cards actually being on a par with the 8800gts or maybe a tad below them after fact is separated from fiction.
 
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C64 said:
Still not rock solid trust able review imo.If you sell up now and it's not as good as projected you will be left with egg on your face.
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Maybe but you can buy a 2nd hand repalcement for nthe same money and all it will have cost is the £10 postage.

Better than finding you card has gone down £50 in sale value
 
C64 said:
So all these sites with the card yet they have no pics no game performance charts don't get this at all.
If any were reliable then we would sit here knowing the exact full details of the card and not second guessing what the ROP will be etc.
Think about it huh a £140 that is 8-10 fps in most things behind a £300+ card just doesn't add up if you ask me it would be a silly thing for nvidia to do.

Why would they do such a thing and force the profit margin on the gtx to come down, as if these claims are true then nobody is going to pay much more than £160 for a gtx come monday.And any retailer selling gtx's for more than £160 just won't be able to sell them.Would you pay £140 more for a gain of 10 fps in games ? i doubt anyone will.

So the real bargain here is not in fact the GT but the GTX which will have to drop dramatically if these claims are proved to be correct.

Until i see a legit review i remain skeptical, i still would put everything i have on these cards actually being on a par with the 8800gts or maybe a tad below them after fact is separated from fiction.
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All very true. Gibbo has already said it's faster than both the 8800 GTS 320Mb and 640Mb cards so both of them are dead after Monday. No point buying a slower card for more money.

As for the Gtx, the 8800GT won;t be that close to it but perhaps overclocked it will be but the same can be said for the GTS now. Oc it's very close to stock GTX speeds (about 5%) but that hasn't stopped people buying the GTX for two reasons:

1. Some people don't overclock
2. A gtx will overclock too so the gap opens again

Bang for bucks the GTX isn't top, the 2900pro is but that won't stop the fastest card selling which still be the GTX.

Don't forget the 8800 GTS 640Mb is out mid November which will be even closer to the ths GTX but then Nvidia is bringing out the even faster new revision GTX probably soon after so why worry about sales of the old cards? Perhaps one day ocuk will have a "week's special" on the 8800 GTX for £76?

In saying that, I can see it dropping £50 to £250 perhaps?
 
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Greebo said:
All very true. Gibbo has already said it's faster than both the 8800 GTS 320Mb and 640Mb cards so both of them are dead after Monday. No point buying a slower card for more money.

As for the Gtx, the 8800GT won;t be that close to it but perhaps overclocked it will be but the same can be said for the GTS now. Oc it's very close to stock GTX speeds (about 5%) but that hasn't stopped people buying the GTX for two reasons:

1. Some people don't overclock
2. A gtx will overclock too so the gap opens again

Bang for bucks the GTX isn't top, the 2900pro is but that won't stop the fastest card selling which still be the GTX.

Don't forget the 8800 GTS 640Mb is out mid November which will be even closer to the ths GTX but then Nvidia is bringing out the even faster new revision GTX probably soon after so why worry about sales of the old cards? Perhaps one day ocuk will have a "week's special" on the 8800 GTX for £76?

In saying that, I can see it dropping £50 to £250 perhaps?
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Yes but the GTS640 is not 140 and why drop the gtx as ati cannot match it ?
 
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