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Looks like the GTX 260 is where its at for 8800GTX owners.

shrek2

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Well look at it this way. Its cheaper and much faster than an 8800GTX especially after you have sold the gtx. Firingsquad sum it up well for me.
Then there’s the GeForce GTX 260. Its closest equivalent is a pair of GeForce 8800 GTs running in SLI. Here it’s a neck-and-neck race, with the 8800 GT SLI combo winning some benchmarks, and the GTX 260 taking home the performance crown in others. Considering its slimmer $400 price tag, this card is the easier upgrade to stomach given its performance. In fact, it’s the board we’d buy if we were plunking down the cash for a graphics upgrade today. This board ran circles around the 9800 GTX in our testing, and only costs about $100 more. Look at it from another perspective, the GTX 260 gets you 80-85% of the performance of the flagship GTX 280 for $250 less. NVIDIA’s got to stick to that $400 MSRP though in order for this equation to work.
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Cheaper than an 8800GTX?

I think if I owned an 8800GTX, I wouldn't be tempted by a GTX 260 I'm afraid. I'd be lucky to get £135 for my 8800GTX, and then I'd have to find about another £170 on top with current prices!

If I was in the market for a new card though, they'd be worth a look, but in all honesty, for me, the performance gain over an 8800GTX wouldn't justify the outlay.
 
shrek2 said:
Well look at it this way. Its cheaper and much faster than an 8800GTX especially after you have sold the gtx. Firingsquad sum it up well for me.
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There is only one issue I have with the firingsquad conclusion. Price. On this very site you can pick up a single GTX260 for £330ish yet two 8800GT (which firingsquad concluded its similar in performance to) can be picked up for £220.

Fair enough with newer drivers the GTX260 may be better but thats a hell of a price difference at the moment.
 
Supposed to be. No solid reviews (evidence) yet though, and take each review with a pinch of salt. Try and read several and get a general feel for the card as some sites are pretty biased. (re: get paid for reviews).

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I am still not even tempted to upgrade my 8800GTS 640MB I own for a long time, maybe if I would have a 30" LCD but I do not.
 
Costs less than the 8800 GTX?

An 8800 GTX on OcUK can be had for £211, £293 for the GTX260. The cheapest price I've seen was over £260. Therefore I don't feel it unfair to fob that value review as 'non-applicable' for the next couple of weeks at the least.

Hey, if we do end up seeing the GTX260 for as little as £200 I'm all for it, that'd be brilliant, noooot holding my breath for that though.
 
Well I paid £165 for my 8800 gtx when ocuk had them on offer a couple of months back, the price of the new cards would have to fall quite a bit from current to tempt me to upgrade. I feel theres plenty of life in the "old girl" yet :)
 
Give it a few weeks and GTX260's will be closer to the £200 mark. If ATI's 4870 really does turn out to be a $300-$350 card then the GTX260 is a dead duck at current prices.
 
Personally I'm building a whole new case rather than upgrading (Last desktop dates back to 2001, since then I've been on laptops and now I'm moving around less it's time to go back to Desktops) and the GTX 260 is looking like a sweet buy.

Sure the GX2 performs better but one also has to remember that the cooling of the dual GPU GX2 throws most of the air back into the case :/ I'm aiming for a case as silent as possible when idle which makes the GTX 260 a very tempting choice, especially compared to the previous goal of a 9800 GTX ^^
 
I just saw the tests over at Toms Hardware guide. The speed increase is not very convincing, 10% at the most. i bet i can overclock my 8800GTX to get a similar performace anyway
 
im with you dutch guy . ive got my gts 640 and if o/clocked it can compete with a gt/gts and its not far off a gtx . its still a good card . but there are one or two games that struggle a little at 1920x1200 . the only cards that interest me at the moment are the ati cards
 
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