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8800GTS 320MB Results so far....

The supersampling has to be the single best quality of this card. On World of Warcraft, if you go to the Hinterlands (a lot of trees and foliage) it stands out so much. It's like an oil painting, all the trees are so smooth!

Also, for the Half Life 2 players - if you're on the water boat level, the shrubbery on the title screen scene (the river, with the helicopter flying over) looks -much- better and cleaner :)

This may probably rival the 6600GT for the best 200 quid bang for buck.
 
My view is if you are spending 260 on a 640 mb gts you might aswell go the extra and get a GTX

I have a P5ND2Sli mobo, a P4 630 and a 6800GS with aftermarket Zalman cooler installed to sell. Part of me wants to buy the GTS and then recoup most of the cost through the sale of the older parts. The other part of me wants me to sell the parts and shove all the money together and just get a GTX.

Everytime I make a decision you guys respond and I have to have another think about things again. :p
 
The Laughing Ma said:
I have a P5ND2Sli mobo, a P4 630 and a 6800GS with aftermarket Zalman cooler installed to sell. Part of me wants to buy the GTS and then recoup most of the cost through the sale of the older parts. The other part of me wants me to sell the parts and shove all the money together and just get a GTX.

Everytime I make a decision you guys respond and I have to have another think about things again. :p
GTX. At least then, the chances of being dissapointed are smaller. ;)
 
The Laughing Ma said:
I have a P5ND2Sli mobo, a P4 630 and a 6800GS with aftermarket Zalman cooler installed to sell. Part of me wants to buy the GTS and then recoup most of the cost through the sale of the older parts. The other part of me wants me to sell the parts and shove all the money together and just get a GTX.

Everytime I make a decision you guys respond and I have to have another think about things again. :p

JUst get the GTX then :D or you can wait until the R600 and see what that offers you, as well as NVidias quick reply to it!
 
KNiVES said:
The card arrived this morning, I only ordered it yesterday as well - amazing service from OCuk. The card itself is incredibly - running WoW at 1280x1024 without a hiccup on 16xAA and 16xAF with alpha texture supersampling - it's a buffet for the eyes.

Sorry to be a "noob" - but I am at gfx o/c!! :D HOW do you set these up for WoW please? :confused:

Cheers

Mike
 
Big.Wayne said:
I don't subscribe to this 'future prOOf ideal', I would suggest you pay money for what you can use and benefit from 'now'
I totally agree, I always go for best bang for buck, which at the minute is the 320. The 640 is £50-£60 more and doesn't offer any discernable extra performance on current games at the resolution I play (1680x1050).

We may find that this changes for some future title but then I can always put my £50 saved towards an 8900/R600/whatever. I think once you start getting games that the 320 can't handle you will also find the 640 starting to struggle too.

The graphics card industry moves so fast that you can only really buy for today.
 
jrodga2k5 said:
Loadsa now running at ** Oblivion settings ;) awesome stuff mate :D

The temps are superb, me and u are showing up exactly the same so far in terms of that, I still cant get ove rhow quiet it is either

Me neither, i was expecting it to have melted my card after an hr, i was expecting abuot 90, but wehn i saw only 68 i had to a double-take, amazing, and even after an hr it ws still quiet, im well impressed, and it runs great with just the 2xAA and the supersampling on, supersampling for the win!!!. :cool: :D
 
jrodga2k5 said:
Loadsa now running at ** Oblivion settings ;) awesome stuff mate :D

The temps are superb, me and u are showing up exactly the same so far in terms of that, I still cant get ove rhow quiet it is either

Yeah, and me neither, i was expecting it to have melted my card after an hr, i was expecting about 90 lol, but when i saw only 68 i had to a double-take, amazing, and even after an hr it ws still quiet, im well impressed, and it runs great with just the 2xAA and the supersampling on, supersampling for the win!!!. :cool: :D

What an astonishing card for only £200 sheets!!!
 
Man i get sick of hearing 'but when Dx10 games come along your gona need more than 320mb so get the 640mb one', what is the point, where are these Dx10 games, so your saying, im gona buy a card today for games that are months away, that i know nothing about, or know how they are going to run. :confused:

Do you not think that Dx10 games are going to take time, drivers are going to take time to get decent, the first set of Vista drivers official or not will be absolute crap, look at ATi's first official Vista drivers, are they absolutely perfect, are they hell, theres no way they are going to get amazing performance, every single game running spot on at blistering frame-rates in their very first set, no way, its going to take time.

Also if your waiting for all these Dx10 games, then you wouldn't be buying the old G80's, they are old hat now already as they've been out since last November, thats 4x months old already and 4x months is a long time in graphics cards, by the time we even have about 5x games with Dx10 features were going to have the G200's, and the R900's or summit, G80's/R600's are gona be long gone by then, distant memory's, if your bothered about all the upcoming games that are coming you wouldn't have bought an old hat G80/R600, you would by one of the new cards that are out around then, i don't care about Dx10 games, as theres ZERO out, and wont be for months yet, and i know my GTS is gona be old hat by then, its 4x months old hat already and theres still ZERO Dx10 games, i bought it for the now, and the performance that it gives now, when the Dx10 games start to appear, and theres more than a couple out so its worth buying a Dx10 card for, then ill buy a card out around then, and it wont be an ancient G80/R600.

If Crysis does indeed come out in March, how old are the G80's gona be then, 5+ months, exactly, thats ancient in graphics cards, bound to be newer ones out in that amount of time as they come out every couple of months, 8800's are old hat as the 8900's are coming now, and even they are gona have ZERO Dx10 games to play on em. :)
 
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Adding to the poster above ......

The general rule of thumb for these 320mb 8800s is for resolutions 1600x1200 and below with full settings, it should be no problem at all.

If you've got cash to spend then by all means go for the 640mb versions to future-proof.

If you're on a budget then go for the 320mb version if you don't intend to run Vista this year (DX10 is Vista only afaik) and you won't be gaming at more than 1600x1200 resolution.
 
Anyone had problems running the 8800 demos?

Mine run horrid. Jumpy or unusable (Maybe this is just a Vista thing) or were they designed with much more texture memory in mind?
 
That's it, I'm well and truly STUMPED! I have around £350 and was originally going to go with the 8800GTX (with a few extra quid). Then it was the 8800GTS I was going to get, and now this cheaper card has come out and after reading the reviews on other sites, I aint got a clue where to go. Can you guys help?

Do I:

1. Sod it all, and get a 8800GTX?
2. Go with the 640mb GTS?
3. Get the 320mb card and use the rest of the cash for a 500gb HDD??!!

The factors are:

1. My new Sony monitor's native resolution is only 1280*1024 and I don't game in higher res....so would I need the mutts nutts card with all that RAM and its 128 pipes?
2. My system is running a C2D CPU 6600 Conroe (O'C'd to 2*2.88Ghx) and 2Gb DDR2 RAM

Ultimately, I want to run games such as Crysis and everything that that sort of game demands of my hardware.

I ain't got a clue where to go. These 320mb 8800 reviews seem pretty good but I don't want to sell myself short ultimately.
 
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dieschwalbe said:
My new Sony monitor's native resolution is only 1280*1024 and I don't game in higher res...
The 8800 GTS 320MB would suit you perfectly. At that resolution, you wouldn't need the 640MB and the performance difference would be minimal. A GTX is still the king though and will thump anything in its path by a good distance. It will also allow for future upgradability if you happen to sell your monitor for a larger one down the line.

It all depends on your budget, but i'd definitely rule out the 640MB GTS.
 
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