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8800GT Ramblings Thread

yes if you use your grey matter a bit and get a decent price for your 88 card and use the net to your advantage it would cost u about a tenner to get one going on what people are getting for there gts a moment.the games we are on about are the new next gen titles where the exra bit of horsepower will make the difference without spending a fortune or double the price.its not even worth arguing about really its common sense.
 
Tooks said:
@ Jack Bauer, unlucky!!! Mind you, haven't you got a bit of a cold coming on?! ;)
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No, that was yesterday when I stayed at home to order the dam thing :P

Anyway, I will post some benchmarks tonight, for now first impressions. Its light, very light after owning double slot cards with a Kg of copper stuck to the side for years. I cant hear it idle, aint got time to test it further im afraid.
 
555BUK said:
I do not actually think the 8800GT will be much fatser than a 8800GTS.

Why am I saying this?

Well, my current GTS overclocks to 650/1720/2000. At this speed it beats a stock GTX in most benches. The GT has stock settings of 600/1500/1800. Assumimg shader and memory clocks will reach similar levels to my GTS, and that the GT core reaches 700, the only difference is ~50MHz on the core and those extra 16 pipelines (minus 64bits of mem bandwidth).

At stock, the GT does slaughter the GTS, but when overclocked it may be quite close.
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I agree, we'll see next week, my GTS only does 620 on the core, so 700 on the core will be a huge improvement. The 16 extra shaders will mean a lot though, it really will, and if you can reach similar clocks on the shaders on that one it's crazy.
 
Even though the stock is overdue - my order does say it's in the warehouse queue. Just need some clarification on what exactly it means - Waiting to be picked? Waiting for stock to enter the warehouse?
 
My order is in the warehouse queue as well. My PC is now down with no graphics card until my new one arrives..

I notice stock for the BFG is also 'overdue'?
 
dgmug said:
yes if you use your grey matter a bit and get a decent price for your 88 card and use the net to your advantage it would cost u about a tenner to get one going on what people are getting for there gts a moment.the games we are on about are the new next gen titles where the exra bit of horsepower will make the difference without spending a fortune or double the price.its not even worth arguing about really its common sense.
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I'm not arguing, just trying to get a bit of reasoned debate outside of the 'OMG it OWNZ, MUST GET ONE!!!' type response!! :)

Next gen to me means DX10, and no card this side of an 8800Ultra seems to be able to run those well at the moment? :confused:

I agree the 8800GT is a cracking DX9 card.
 
TBH it dosn't sound like OCuKs problem, its Nvidia and the suppliers.

Just because they were released yesterday does't mean that they will be in stock everywhere.

Somethings after release don't appear in stock for weeks.
 
I'm now thinking of getting one of these but question is i game @ 1920x1200 with my 8800GTX, now i know its faster at stock than the 8800GT but when overclocked it might be faster than my GTX but will the memory slow it down etc. But really i'm going to be looking at the GTS/GTX when they come. :confused: If i sell my GTX now good chance i'll get a good price from it.
 
Willis said:
I'm now thinking of getting one of these but question is i game @ 1920x1200 with my 8800GTX, now i know its faster at stock than the 8800GT but when overclocked it might be faster than my GTX but will the memory slow it down etc. But really i'm going to be looking at the GTS/GTX when they come. :confused: If i sell my GTX now good chance i'll get a good price from it.
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Why the hell are you going to sell your GTX =/

Most benchmarks I've read the GTX (todays GTX) beats the GT, unless the GT is in SLI obviously :p

I'd keep the thing =/
 
Delvis said:
Why the hell are you going to sell your GTX =/

Most benchmarks I've read the GTX (todays GTX) beats the GT, unless the GT is in SLI obviously :p

I'd keep the thing =/
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Yes i know its faster but the new GTS/GTX is going to be even faster so i'm thinking cashing in on my old GTX now, plus i can get a 8800GT for only £145 all in ;).
 
Was going to do an overclocked one but Im really out of time now.

Anyway on a 6300 @ 2.8 GHz with 2 Gig ram at 800 MHz

8800 GTS 320 got 8900 @ stock

8800 GT 512 @ stock

Main Test Results

3DMark Score 11135 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 5221 Marks

SM 3.0 Score 5115 Marks

CPU Score 2498 Marks
 
Delvis said:
Why the hell are you going to sell your GTX =/

Most benchmarks I've read the GTX (todays GTX) beats the GT, unless the GT is in SLI obviously :p

I'd keep the thing =/
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I sold my GTX and am getting 2 GTs for, and it's costing me £60 to do so. That's pretty good value for money and excellent performance. High res monitors really benefit from SLI.
 
Jack Bauer said:
Was going to do an overclocked one but Im really out of time now.

Anyway on a 6300 @ 2.8 GHz with 2 Gig ram at 800 MHz

8800 GTS 320 got 8900 @ stock

8800 GT 512 @ stock

Main Test Results

3DMark Score 11135 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 5221 Marks

SM 3.0 Score 5115 Marks

CPU Score 2498 Marks
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Looks good, what about noise under load?
 
Couldnt hear it tbh, however my system aint quiet. Also riva tuner v2.01 dont work with it. I aint sure if there is an newer version available tho.
 
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