G80 Appreciation thread

[MoNkEyMiKeY]

My 8800 GTX served me well for a couple of years or more. Could have kept going with it but I felt the itch to upgrade.

 

[rounddodger]

Words can't express my excitement when this arrived from the states back in December 07.. Wish I still had it, hell of a good looking card, the EVGA one at least. I mean check those shader clocks compared to my 280!

 

[Tute]

Sure was. I mean, what other chip has been branded more times than the combined arses of a herd of McDonald's cows?

So? We're talking about how impressive a chip is, not how many times it's been rebranded?

 

[Trunks9486]

And technically G80 was never rebranded. G92 is the rebrand-whore

G80 was far too expensive to be rebranded as a cheaper product, same as GT200. I remember when people were speculating for G90, only it never arrived and we got G92 instead.

 

[Kribby2006]

and that just shows how much crap your talking as always. 8800gtx = double the speed if not more than the previous gen 7900gtx, x1950xtx

+ I totally agree, this guy does always seem to rewrite the bible everytime he posts.

 

[Prof. Cheese]

So? We're talking about how impressive a chip is, not how many times it's been rebranded?

I was talking about how it's funny.

 

[Prof. Cheese]

And technically G80 was never rebranded. G92 is the rebrand-whore

G80 was far too expensive to be rebranded as a cheaper product, same as GT200. I remember when people were speculating for G90, only it never arrived and we got G92 instead.

Who said G80 was rebranded?

 

[555BUK]

9700Pro is probably my favorite. I remember being gobsmacked about playing Doom3 with 2xAA enabled and getting over 30fps. This card introduduced AA to the masses and gave NVidia it's first "trousers around ankles" moment. The G80 was also a great card but for me it did not quite have the same WOW factor.

 

[Prof. Cheese]

3DFX 4MB (lol) was the most impressive card for me. It's simply because it was the first one I got, but at the time I was blown away by it!

 

[MoNkEyMiKeY]

My first was a voodoo banshee But my first proper own build was using the newly released 9700 pro. Eve-online looked awesome on it.

 

[Tute]

I was talking about how it's funny.

Ah right, okay.

 

[The Funktopus]

Still running an XFX 8800GTS-XT here, albeit in it's 320Mb Guise, paired up with an E6600 (still at stock sadly), 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400 and an XFX NF680i-LT SLi motherboard.

I am hoping to upgrade in the next couple of months though, hopefully to an i7 920 based rig with a 5850, so I'm hoping to see a big leap in performance over my three year old setup.

 

[DavyBoy]

Typical Nvidia rebranding at work. Is the GTX 280 just an 8800 series card in disguise?

Eh, the GTX280 isn't a rebrand of the 8800GTX!!!

Where did you pull that information out of?

@rounddoger, you got yours around about the same time as me, I got mine in November 07, it cost me an arm and a leg to, I paid £360 for mine from a local hardware store!!!

However, it's probably the longest GFX card I've ever owned, and it's still going strong to this very day in the missus's system, so it was £360 well spent imo.

 

[gurusan]

I vote for the 8800GT. Has always been excellent bang for buck, even now.

 

[Things change I've changed]

I purchased an 8800gtx on day one and only really upgraded to a GTX260 out of pure boredom, but I honestly didn't really see much of an increase in performance tbh, yeah I could up the AA and AF a bit more but there wasn't that 'wow' factor, I later purchased a GTX280 and again just didn't feel that there was hardly any difference in performance so I ditched it and went back to my 260, my secondary system has a 8800 in it and @ the max res of the monitor (1680x1050) there really isn't anything out there that I've came across that I can't run fine @ max settings, the only game out that I've played that really tests the card is Crysis really.

 

[rounddodger]

Eh, the GTX280 isn't a rebrand of the 8800GTX!!!

Where did you pull that information out of?

@rounddoger, you got yours around about the same time as me, I got mine in November 07, it cost me an arm and a leg to, I paid £360 for mine from a local hardware store!!!

However, it's probably the longest GFX card I've ever owned, and it's still going strong to this very day in the missus's system, so it was £360 well spent imo.

Took a risk on eBay on mine but got it inc. shipping for just under 300quid all in, bit of a bargain at the time! Loved that card.

I still have my Diamond Monster Voodoo2 12MB, massive step up from the Riva 128 4MB that was in the family PC at the time. Which shocked me itself as I had no idea you could get better than console graphics on the PC at the time, just launched TOCA Touring Cars and at 800x600 was like wow.

 

[Rroff]

At 1680x res your not going to see an earth shattering difference unless you turn the AA up or play something especially shader heavy.

At 2048x res with a reasonable amount of AA the difference is quite a bit bigger - infact I've gone to 2x 260 to make sure my fps are silky smooth with everything maxed.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Still got my 8800gtx.. Read this month Star letter in CPC


I have the budget for a new one.. I'm just waiting on Fermi to see what that has to offer or when more like.

 

[Duran]

cant beat my gtx 295 got it for a really good price, was the top card for 10 months, overclocks well and blows any game out of the water.

 

[MoNkEyMiKeY]

Boought my 8800 GTX 27th Jan 07 Changed to a 4890 June 09. I paid £368.06 from OcUK