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8800 GS 'quick' review.

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The quick test shows the 8800GT leads about 27% comparing to 8800GS. But their price gap is about 50% in our local market.
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Not bad at all. Looks to be completely replacing the 8600 GTS, even on the price front. I say 'bout time.

Card looks believable in my opinion. If you are going to comment, please comment on the card's potential or something similar. I don't want a thread with 20+ posts of 'that card can't exist I just bought x card so my wishful thinking makes it go away and I'm gonna undermine anyone who says different'. I accept that the card could just be a rumour and someone might be really bored and make up some results, that's just really unlikely with the cards we've had recently, though.

Personally I think it's gonna get a little bandwidth crippled at resolutions above 1600x1050 in more intensive games like Crysis.

So, what do you think about the pricing? I'd hazard a guess that we'll see the 384MB version at £95 and the 768MB version at £130-ish initially but the price will eventually settle a little lower than its induction.
 
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Depending on pricing it could really give the Radeon HD3850 256MB a good bashing which is sitting pretty in the £100 region. . .
 
WTF?!?!

Let me get this right. nVidia are releasing ANOTHER 8800 card?!?! Thats how many now... GS GT GTS GTSv2 GTX Ultra.. 6 cards!?!?!

And if this is built on the same PCB as the GT and GTS then isnt that going to further hinder supply of the already short stocked GT and GTS?! nVidia could just be artificially holding back stock by producing multiple similar boards that then cause prices to stay high.
 
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Skeeter said:
WTF?!?!

Let me get this right. nVidia are releasing ANOTHER 8800 card?!?! Thats
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No another two cards! :D

A 384MB 8800GS and a 768MB 'clocked' 8800GS :eek:

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The 8800 GT and 8800 GTS are actually in ample supply looking around the internet. Everywhere seems to have some in stock. Admittedly there are a lot of 'pre-order' signs and the like, but most places at least have a sustainable amount in stock - moreso of the 8800 GTS 512.

Edit: Yeah, I saw the OC on the 768 version - methinks it's because it's targetting the 3850 512MB and the 3870.
 
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why is the memory at 384MB and 768MB?

I thought nowadays they weren't doing them in those intervals? GTX and old GTS were at those, and since then the GT and new GTS have been 256 512 1gb =s
 
The 192-bit bus. Cheap to produce without damaging the sales of the 8800 GT and GTS 512 too much. At least it won't get too bandwidth limited like the 8600 cards.
 
hmm can't seem to see the page.

I can understand the overclocked version of 8800GS but why 768Mb RAM when the card is aiming at mid-range 3850pro market?? Doesn't make sense??
 
At a guess I'd say it's because nVidia's cards get hit by the memory amount more than the ATi cards. Also, the 768MB of VRAM version is priced closer to the 3850 512MB version.
 
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Why a HD2900XT with 1GB? :p Less-informed people\OEMs will buy it.
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I agree. ill informed people are very full of the 'more is better' notion! More GBs = more goodness! Same kind of people who think a 2.4GHz C2Q is slower than their 3GHz P4!

The will sell, lots, and lots, and make lots of money. My worry is that nVidia are almost certainly completely crushing ATi and all they have to offer, but have also started cannibalizing their own cards...

Either that or they are fattening us up with lots of cards to stop us wondering why the 9xxx series arent out this time next year...
 
They probably just handed the marketing guys a GUI program that says how many much a card costs to produce and its predicted value in 3D mark and let them play with the sliders. :p

To be honest they can't really cannibalize their 8600 cards, the 7600 series did that long ago.
 
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