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Whos ditching 8800 GT for new rev GTS?
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I'd do the same, but need high FPS at 1920x1200 with decent quality graphics (don't care for AA).
Seems perfect use of the word to me; if any new Nvidia card comes out that is better than my current 8800GT, then my 8800GT would be ditched.
Umm, no it's not, close but not quite especially with AA.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_8800_gt_performance/default.asp
http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/470/1
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I do, don't need heaps at 1920x1200 but a bad case of 'jaggies' bugs me, deffo makes the computer image seem less real.
3% slower in most cases.
And way way cheaper.
Stop being pedantic you know very well what I meant.
Anyone saying the GT is not worth more than 150 is clearly misinformed about PC hardware.
They don't have time to play games, to busy running Prime and watching 3dmark. lol
Should be, but at what cost?
Well I can see this point from both sides and feel I can add some notes:
Its not a bad thing swapping out hardware, for me personally its quite interesting. I do run a lot of benchies and take my time doing so, I like to feel confident that my posts are not misleading in anyway. I don't like to get caught up in the competitive element of trying to get the highest 3Dmark score and stuff like that but prefere to submit good 'conservative' results that act as a baseline for others. In most cases an average user should have no trouble matching or beating my scores.
Hopefully the findings I share will prove useful to others and are not published in anyway for braggin rights etc
Ultimately though its all about the gaming. If you play a game enough its becomes quite easy to notice any improvements in actual gameplay and thats what you are paying the money for IMO.
Now the difference between me and someone like 'Grendel' is that even though I may swap hardware around quite a lot I don't suddenly develop a serious disdain for the 'slightly' older hardware. I don't feel the need to 'rain on the parade' of those people who have read all the original hype and are as excited about their new purchase as I was when I first got it.
It's a thing called semantics, and thats a much better way of putting it lol!
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i doubt the GTS will be better value for money than the GT.... NV wouldnt shoot their midrange card in the foot this soon after release, so the GTS will either be a LOT faster and a LOT more expensive, or a bit faster and a bit more expensive.
Look for it to be equal or worse on price/performance, as that is generaly the case with upper range cards (compare 320GTS and 640GTS prices and comparative performances)
Look for it to be equal or worse on price/performance, as that is generaly the case with upper range cards (compare 320GTS and 640GTS prices and comparative performances)
I would say about 20-30% extra, but, if I did not have an 8800GT, and had about £200 to spend, either way I would go with the GTS if it was indeed £200.
I cant believe the GT is a mid range card, it feels high end and I always thought of the GTS as a high end card, never thought you only had one card in the high end.
Historically all GT have been slower than a GTS.
In theory they should have renamed the new GTS as a GTO but a GT will still than be faster than a old GTS so perhaps the old GTS should have been renamed a GT, the current GT comes out as a GTS and new revised GTS comes out as a GTO.
And rumour has it there will be 1gb versions of both the GT and the GTS which will help at high res and future games.