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Did anyone buy an 8600GTS?

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What are your thoughts of it?

I was thinking of getting one, then another one later for SLI as i cant stretch to a 320Mb 8800GTS just yet.

But im thinking that an X1900XTX 512Mb or 7900GTX 512Mb will be the best bet, especially as i should think i could get one for £100 or less

Im running 1440x900
 
8600 gts are not worth it and you should save up a bit more for a card with a lot more performance and bag for buck "8800gts" BFG version, The only reason i can think for the 8600gts to come out is for companies like PC World and Dell to market high end DX10 computers and because it i dx10 and a value card at that they get away with it, poor unsuspecting victims tihnk they are getting a very good system.

thats how i justify the 8600 cards existance.
 
A friend of mine bought an 8600GT from a competitor and an 8600GTS arrived at his doorstep.

He seemed somewhat impressed by the card since it costed him the best of £80, but to be honest I can't say an 8600GTS is worth it's £130 pricetag. Generally, you'll find that if you overclock your graphics card, an 8600GT can hit the same core limit as the GTS, despite being clocked so much lower. The only thing is that 8600GT's come with memory rated at lower speeds so you'd be a few hundred mhz short of GTS speeds.

On the whole, given that the 8600GT is hardly behind the GTS performance wise and can be clocked near GTS speeds, it's the better buy especially when you take into account that it's as much as £50 cheaper.

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With that in mind, used Radeon X1900XT's and 7900GT's can be had for around that much used, which can take down the 8600 series at stock speeds and pull well ahead when overclocked. You'd have to live with the lack of DX10 support but lets face it, there aren't many DX10 games around and won't be in large amounts for quite a few months.

My money would be on a used X1900XT/X1950Pro or 7900GT/GTO/GTX

Personally, I'm making the move to Core 2 Duo and have ordered a GeForce 7300GT as a stopgap solution for a few months. There's a chance that I won't get a DDR3 version, but oh well. Won't have to put up with it for too long :o

Mul
 
x1900 XTX or 7900 GTX will blow that mutha away. :D

8600 GTS's are pure crap, they even get walloped by the x1950pro, AVOID, or save a bit more and get an 8800 GTS which will blow all those muthas away.

Id remove that competitor Dead Dog. ;)
 
8600gt is a good card, and better than a 7600gt which can still run a lot of games at full settings.

good thing with 8600gt is no only its 43w power consumption, low heat, dx10, and cheapo price (can be had for under 70 quid now inc vat) but its the onboard video processor that can offload loads more work than the 7 series cards can. and the added benefit of the video processor bring better than an 8800gtx one. although thats nvida's fault again like how they borked purevideo on 6800 cards and not on 6600 cards.

8600gt is good value for the money if you want a cheap gfx card especially to tide you over till next year when g90 etc are released. current top end cards just suck up way too much power. most people iv seen go for a top end card have ended up having to spend another 80 quid on top for a new psu. just way too much if you ask me.

and looking at how top end cards perform in games today like that lost planet demo, no new gfx card is really worth it. i mean whats the point n paying 350 odd quid on a gfx card and having to game at 1280x1024 with medium details and no AA with under 60fps most of the time?? pointless if you ask me.
 
I don't think the 8600's are as bad as everyone is making out. My bother has a 8600 GT and it seems to chug along nicely for the price.

I'd rather all of the household computer makes put these in than the x1300 and 7100's etc.

Just thought i'd say it.
 
Well at the mo i have a pair of the Galaxy 7300GTs which i got as a stop gap to use and to save a few bob to put to other parts like the mobo and cpu.

The 7300s are actually pretty good, they eat doom3 and quake 4 for breakfast and arent too bad on oblivion.

Now the Lost Planet demo is another story - 20FPS on low details :(

No doubt i will stump up the dosh for a 320Mb GTS :)
 
A 8600gt/s are very good for thier price. In some games they beat the 1950pro and allow higher settings.
 
jaykay said:
A 8600gt/s are very good for thier price. In some games they beat the 1950pro and allow higher settings.
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yea i read that on the hardocp review, and with the new drivers nvidia keep releasing i bet the 8600gts is a better option then the x1950pro, considering the gts price is dropping now.

but yes 8600gt deffo bang got the buck.
 
Jay123 said:
Jacob had the 8 6 00 (8600) read before replying
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And this thread is about the 8600. READ before replying.

Anyway the 8600GTS doesn't seem to do to bad in shader intensive games (stalker and Oblivion) where it takes a commanding lead over the X1950pro.

In fact at 1280x1024 it isn't too bad overall,

However the price is the issue with it at the moment as the X1950pro is cheaper overall and offers better bang for your buck.

The little 8600GT however does seem to be very good considering its price especially if you want a DX10 capable GPU with the advantages on the onbaord video processor.
 
Hmm, ive just been reading the review on Guru3D and while a single card is comparable to a 7900 or an 1950 pro a pair of them in SLI pretty much rock.

Still leaning towards the 8800GTS 320Mb tho if i can raise enough
 
my local pc world is hilarious, it's 'latest' gfx card is the x800 series still at the original price
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My local pc world is not to bad, they have 8800 GTS's & GTX's in stock, however the prices they have given them is typical pc world, ridiculous.
 
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