Whos ditching 8800 for new rev?

soul geezer · 26 Oct 2007 at 09:35

wtf... so am i right in understanding the new 8800gts will be better than my bfg 8800gtx 768mb?? :eek:

not hard to lose touch with pc components nowadays it seems... :rolleyes:

RavenXXX2 · 26 Oct 2007 at 09:36

easyrider said:
10 hrs prime stable at 3.8ghz.

Will push for 4ghz tonight.

SIG Ammended.

Mmm, using over 1.6v to get the CPU up to 3.8 is a lot of juice for it 24/7, hate to see what it needs for 4Ggz.

V1N · 26 Oct 2007 at 09:40

Just for info, I got a reply from Asus regarding my P5b.

Dear Friend :

Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.

My name is ZYC, and I would be assisting you today.

The PCI-E 16x on P5B is 1.1,
so you can use future PCI-E 2.0 video card on P5B board.

Thank you for using ASUS products and services!

If you have any problem about our products, you can visit our support site below to search the solution at the first time!

http://support.asus.com

ZYC

ASUS Customer Service Center (Beijing)

Just need to wait for a few 100% genuine benchies now, to make sure the card is all it's cracked up to be, and I'll finally get to upgrade from my 7900GTO (and if it isn't all that great, then wait a little longer to see what the new GTS can do)

V1N.

easyrider · 26 Oct 2007 at 09:51

RavenXXX2 said:
Mmm, using over 1.6v to get the CPU up to 3.8 is a lot of juice for it 24/7, hate to see what it needs for 4Ggz.

It doesn't need over 1.6v for 3.8ghz.

Read my post in the Q6600 overclocking thread.

I had to take the mobo out of the equation.

Temps are fine and I will back down the vcore as necessary.

Ian Marsh · 26 Oct 2007 at 09:59

The new 8800 GT sounds like a bargain, any idea roughly how much the new 640mb gts will be in November ? :cool:

willhub · 26 Oct 2007 at 10:41

Ian Marsh said:
The new 8800 GT sounds like a bargain, any idea roughly how much the new 640mb gts will be in November ?

The new 8800GTS? probs around £200?

MeatLoaf · 26 Oct 2007 at 11:53

Well my 320Mb GTS is now sold and my PC is now crying out for an 8800GT. My poor old 6200 Turbocache backup card would die a death if i fired up crysis demo

Greebo · 26 Oct 2007 at 11:54

willhub said:
The new 8800GTS? probs around £200?

I see http://www.geforce9.com/ are saying it't the 19th November for the new GTS now

I was going to wait a fortnight to see how much the GTS cards were going to be but I can't wait three weeks now so looks like a GT it is on Monday

Greebo · 26 Oct 2007 at 11:57

MeatLoaf said:
Well my 320Mb GTS is now sold and my PC is now crying out for an 8800GT. My poor old 6200 Turbocache backup card would die a death if i fired up crysis demo

Well your lucky. My 9500 pro 128Mb backup card is AGP and I haven't got an AGP socket anymore so come Monday I will have no gfx card

Greebo · 26 Oct 2007 at 12:00

willhub said:
The new 8800GTS? probs around £200?

No I can see them being a little more to be honest. Top end pre oc 8800 GT cards from EVGA and BFG are going to be around £180 so nobody will buy them if you can get the GTS for another £20 which has more ROPs, memory and full memory bandwidth and will probably match a GTX in performance.

I would expect them to be the same money as the 8800 GTS 640Mb are now.

silversurfer · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:19

Greebo said:
Well your lucky. My 9500 pro 128Mb backup card is AGP and I haven't got an AGP socket anymore so come Monday I will have no gfx card

My backup card is pci luckly on the other hand its over 10 years old, has no 3D and only 1mb of dram which means 640x480 is the highest res possible but it does play all videos perfectly ok, it was advanced in its day

Just as well because it cost me about the same as a x1950pro does now

evanswolves82 · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:54

Will you be able to run 2 8800GT or 2 of the new 800GTS in sli on a Asus P5N32-E SLi nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard ?

Arcane · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:16

evanswolves82 said:
Will you be able to run 2 8800GT or 2 of the new 800GTS in sli on a Asus P5N32-E SLi nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard ?

As far as I know 680i is 1.1. The upcoming 780i is 2.0.

This could push SLI into the mainsteam if the cards perform as well as expected and cost around the £140 mark. SLI would be cheaper than a GTX and 3-way SLI could work out at no more than an Ultra and could potentially outperform it....interesting times indeed.

willhub · 26 Oct 2007 at 15:34

Greebo said:
Well your lucky. My 9500 pro 128Mb backup card is AGP and I haven't got an AGP socket anymore so come Monday I will have no gfx card

hehe my backup card is a 9600np lol so i currently have a crapy celeron 1.2 ghz pc with dieng graphics.

easyrider · 26 Oct 2007 at 17:12

willhub said:
hehe my backup card is a 9600np lol so i currently have a crapy celeron 1.2 ghz pc with dieng graphics.

My backup card is a 7300 GT

willhub · 26 Oct 2007 at 17:42

easyrider said:
My backup card is a 7300 GT

Thats one powerfull backup card I'm well jealous

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Devious · 26 Oct 2007 at 17:48

MeatLoaf said:
Well my 320Mb GTS is now sold and my PC is now crying out for an 8800GT.

Is your family crysis over now?

easyrider · 26 Oct 2007 at 17:50

Devious said:
Is your family crysis over now?

120 quids worth of family crysis shocking! :eek:

Greebo · 26 Oct 2007 at 18:22

easyrider said:
120 quids worth of family crysis shocking!

Yeah he needed the money for a family crisis by the weekend but only for the weekend apparantly

He must be getting it paid back on Monday otherwise no GT :rolleyes:

Yozz76 · 26 Oct 2007 at 18:32

V1N said:
Just for info, I got a reply from Asus regarding my P5b.

Just need to wait for a few 100% genuine benchies now, to make sure the card is all it's cracked up to be, and I'll finally get to upgrade from my 7900GTO (and if it isn't all that great, then wait a little longer to see what the new GTS can do)

V1N.

May i ask? Is the P5B a superior board to the P5NSLI, assuming so, i'm worried!