9800 GTS ?

[mikeo]

Just wondering if they are going to release a 9800 GTS? It's just that I've been offered a half decent price for my BFG 8800 GTS OC2 640 MB and "was" thinking of buying an 8800 GTS 512, as the difference to pay would be minimal. But I now see that OCuk appear to be running down their stocks of 8800 GTS's and was wondering if this was signalling something. I suppose they could just be clearing the decks ready for the next gen cards.

Could wait for the next gen cards, but their bound to be a fair price premium when they first come out. This just seemed like a cheap way to gain a bit more performance.

Decisions, decisions..

 

[mikeo]

Lightnix

Thanks for that. As you say, the 9800 series cards seem to be a little bit on the cynical side marketing wise. Might just keep what I've got and do a complete re-build later in the year. By then the current Intel CPU's will have come down in price and hopefully the next gen cards will have dropped a bit.

 

[mikeo]

I suppose I could consider a 9800 GTX. I've seen a couple at half decent prices. Though this then makes me wonder if my Tagan 530w (30a 12v) would be up to it, as I see it requires two 6-pin power connectors (which the Tagan does have I suppose).

Emmmm. So many things to think about.

 

[mikeo]

The 4850 and 4870 are going to be very interesting cards for someone with this sort of budget. I'd hold fire till you can find out what they can do.

I think you could be right. I've jumped quick and bought card/s before just before new stuff coming out and been disappointed.