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BFG 8800 GTX/GTS arriving at OcUK soon and some images for you all!!

Aye, unless you're absolutely obsessed with DX10 (see: all the people who were obsessed with SM3 now kicking themselves in the face even today) the 8800GTX won't be good value for money for a while yet with the 7950GX2 on the market for £350 (and less when the 8800GTX comes out probably.)
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Gibbo stated that GX2 prices won't drop as there is a shortage and no more are being manufactured. Can't speak for other etailers obviously.

I'm not so sure about DX10. With consoles rapidly increasing in power the PC and Microsoft need something to give the PC gaming market a kick up the backside. I'm not suggesting its going to be the holy grail but developers do seem to be taking a greater interest in it than they did in previous technology touted as the next big thing even before its released.

Its not like Quad SLI is even really viable still and 8800SLI will outperform Quad at all but the most ridiculous resolutions unless the drivers are dramatically improved.

I would be suprised if the SM3 crowd or anyone who's bought into any new tech is still beating themselves up over it. Some people buy because its new tech. Its like drinking or smoking. Ultimately its their money.

Tbh right now spending 370 for the cheapest GX2 OC's have over 470 round abouts for a 8800 seems daft when you look at DX10 (whatever you think about it), SLI in the future etc. I think both amounts are nuts btw, just when you compare the 2.
 
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Wait for 6 months to see how the new chipsets and gfx actually pans out.. oh yeah, wait for a dx10 game to be released too :rolleyes: THEN and only then will i start to consider buying anything this expensive...
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
Benchmarks so far have shown that the GX2 performs more or less the same as the 8800GTX, so I don't see how you think the 8800GTX is more future proof. If you think that DX10 makes a card future proof now then you might want to do a search on the terms "Shader Model 3 and futureproof." :p
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On synthetic benchmarks only. We've seen before that multi-GPU solutions tend to scale better with synthetic benchmarks than with real-world games. I think we'll see the gap between current-gen dual GPU and single GPU next-gen solutions open up a little with gaming benchmarks, just as we did with the 7800GTX vs. dual-6800Ultras last time round. Not to mention the vast improvements in games that have issues with SLI, and the SLI frame output irregularity (in AFR anyway).

As for all your other points; I think that only a very small proportion of people will be interested in the (currently non-functional) features such as SM4 support at this time. Certainly for me, the only relevant factor is single card performance in current games (I'm not going back to SLI...). Most of us who buy these top end cards will keep them for 12 months maximum, so 'futureproofing' is pretty much a non-concern.

To those of you who are complaining about the performance of this card, remember that the first card of the last nvidia generation (7800GTX) was not able to match SLI'd 6800Ultras (or GTs for that matter) in 3dmark, and that the relative difference was much greater than it is here. At the time, people were impressed that a single card could even compete with a dual card solution under synthetic conditions, whereas now people seem to expect the new single card to completely annihilate the previous gen :confused: Guess expectations have been raised in the last year or so...


edit - as for the price, it's all relative to the amount of disposable income you have available. I spend around £1000 per year on upgrading my computer, and I budget for this. Blowing £500 on a new graphics card (closer to £350 once I sell my old one) is not going to be a particularly big deal. I suspect this is also the case for most people who will buy in the first week or so.
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Yeah as you said your getting BFG ones in, BFG 7950 GX2 is £387, oh well its still gona be £500. :p
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Is there any reason why you come into every thread about the G80, then state it's price and put a smiley after it? It's like you are taking the mick out of people who want to get one or something.

If someone can afford it, and it's their hobbie, what the hell has it got to do with you? Im sorry, but I have noticed you doing this for awhile now, and it's really annoying having g80 threads littered by you're comments :o
 
Burumbar said:
I'm amazed people are disappointed that a single card is going to be giving the performance of 2 current top cards and thats with immature drivers. Were people expecting it to be much faster than a current SLI or CF setup?

Blimey we just expect too much nowadays, even from a next gen release.
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there is no proper drivers for the x1950xt atm , ati are due to release cat`s 6.10 will full x1950 support and a huge speed increase , according to ati .....
 
All new gfx cards are around 500 on release.I don't know what all the fuss is about,


The 7800 GTX £480 on release
7900 GTX £499 on release( if you could get one) :p

8800 GTX £500


See a pattern forming? lol

There is nothing new in this it is expected,

Wether you can use the DX 10 features or not means Jack.

Its a new Gen card so expect to pay for it through the nose.

I decree that loadsamoney needs to deal with it :D and get on with it :D. It's nothing new its the same on every new Gen card release.

It just so happens that this one has DX 10 features marking the way for the new GFX era.

DX 9 is on its way out.Not straight away but it is.
 
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look pop over to the motors forum if you want to laugh at people spending money, £500 is nothing compared to a what you can spend on a car.

I may actually push the boat out this time as, correct me if I'm wrong but the 8800 is going to be getting on for double the speed of an x1900 in dx9 with the potential of supporting dx10 now if thats not a step change in performance i don't know what is and in my experience step changes are well worth the cash, its the intermediate ones that are a bit of a waste.
 
Gerard said:
£500, how retarded, anyone miss the days when the high end cards were at most about £250?

Kinda getting fed up of the ever increasing cost of pc components. Every other year the price of graphics cards just goes that bit higher and for no real reason. Then again as pc gamers i suppose we should be used to getting shafted for things that are going to appear slow in under 6 months. :rolleyes:
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The part where we're shafted in Europe is in comparison to US prices, pretty much a 1:1 $ ---> £ conversion on newer products.
 
Slam62 said:
look pop over to the motors forum if you want to laugh at people spending money, £500 is nothing compared to a what you can spend on a car.

I may actually push the boat out this time as, correct me if I'm wrong but the 8800 is going to be getting on for double the speed of an x1900 in dx9 with the potential of supporting dx10 now if thats not a step change in performance i don't know what is and in my experience step changes are well worth the cash, its the intermediate ones that are a bit of a waste.
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you make a good point there, people can spend thousands on a car, doing it up, kitting it out etc, but spend half a grand on a computer component and people start moaning, it just depends what your into, I don't criticise people in motors for what they do, I don't earn a lot of money myself but I don't go out drinking, I don't smoke, and I don't own a car, the money I save on these things alone enables me to spend a couple of grand a year on computer components without breaking into a sweet, so whoevers moaning don't presume we are all rich stupid idiots, because a lot of us are just eager computer enthusiasts that really enjoy testing and benching the latest hardware and are fully aware of the costs involved.
 
Duff-Man said:
as for the price, it's all relative to the amount of disposable income you have available. I spend around £1000 per year on upgrading my computer, and I budget for this. Blowing £500 on a new graphics card (closer to £350 once I sell my old one) is not going to be a particularly big deal. I suspect this is also the case for most people who will buy in the first week or so.
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Agreed! I just got a very good price for my GX2 (gotta love the bay), so even if the 8800 is £500 at launch it'll not be a huge deal to me.
 
if people dont want to spend £500 on a card , do , wait a few months you will get it for 350 maybe less , and there might be some dx10 games then to ;)
 
Just my observation on the evga step up programme, even if you can get a G80 (GTX Flavour) for an additional £150 over a GX2, lets be clear here, you will still have laid out over £500 for a graphics card within a 6 month period...

Not that I have a problem with it, it's your money and if you were going to be upgrading it anyway, it makes a lot more financial sense than selling it on 2nd hand. I guess at least you've had the use of a top line card for 6 months, and your card hasn't depreciated.

But, keeping up to speed in the graphics card department, step up or not, is an expensive business - but then we knew that already didn't we?! ;)

If you don't like the prices, then don't buy - simple really...

Me, I'm very interested in a G80 GTS version, especially at around £350.
 
Theres a seller in the states got em up already, BFG/PNY/XFX 8800 GTX $699 for the BFG/XFX, PNY is $679

Sadly there's no pics.
 
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