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NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 512MB G92 Tested @ Tweaktown

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This thread is filled with far too many people that own 8800 GT's calling this card poor to justify their own card :P Think we all need to understand: A) It's had ONE review, and a poor one... B) We still don't even know the price, yeah we can guess all day but there's little point. It's either going to be £200 ish and please many people or be £250 or above and everyone is just going to buy GT's. Judgement needs reserving until it's had more than a single review.
 
flibby said:
This thread is filled with far too many people that own 8800 GT's calling this card poor to justify their own card :P Think we all need to understand: A) It's had ONE review, and a poor one... B) We still don't even know the price, yeah we can guess all day but there's little point. It's either going to be £200 ish and please many people or be £250 or above and everyone is just going to buy GT's. Judgement needs reserving until it's had more than a single review.
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I don't think anyone has said the new GTS is poor.

By the looks of things its a GT with 16 extra SP's thats it.

I reckon the GTS will be like the ultra.Not worth the premium over the GT.

More money,nominal gains.
 
easyrider said:
I don't think anyone has said the new GTS is poor.
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You said yourself it's "Disappointing" it's a stone's throw away from poor, even seen some people saying it's overpriced in another thread too without even knowing the final price, people mocking the card cause it's not some stunning card compared to their GT... take it whichever way but people are implying this card is poor, and it's mostly the GT owners, or maybe just all of willhub's funnily biased posts are making it look like there is more of them than there really is :p

They can reserve judgement if they want too, up to them, but I'm more getting at they shouldn't yet until we've seen more reviews and heard it's final retail price for the UK.

And yeah if it's £200~, I'll be buying one. If not, a GT.

Tom|Nbk said:
all the GT owners justifying their purchases to the high heavens, who are they trying to kid :p
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Well said tbh, well said.
 
Justifing a card that cost peanuts?


LOL

Its a GFX card and the GTS will not be 200 at launch.Not when GT's are close to this.

I wanted the GTS to widen the gap over the GT so I could get one.

Anyone with a GT doesn't need to.Thats the point.
 
Its a GFX card and the GTS will not be 200 at launch.Not when GT's are close to this.
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They are only going to be close because of the markup of the GT's because of the shortages. Nvidia are NOT going to increase the RRP because they know that they aren't making enough GT's, and shop owners (most of them) are NOT going to charge a higher markup to keep the GTS and the GT inline. It'd actually work out better for them to keep the GT at it's current higher markup until the shortage stops and keep the GTS at whatever their normal markup would be, mainly because they would not have a massive backlog for people wanting GT's and wouldn't have to stress constantly trying to get them in and have people complaining at the markup.

I mentioned this in another thread as well. It's like a E6700 and E6750.. shop owners didn't markup the E6750 because it's more powerful than than E6700, they marked it up based on what the RRP was and whatever they normally add on top.

If they marked stuff up based on older / lower versions then the 8800 GT should really be costing more like £300.

I wanted the GTS to widen the gap over the GT so I could get one.
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Maybe they will... some of those results on Tweaktown are really suspect. Especially the Crysis ones. The rest of them don't look that bad, some nice increases across the board for a card that basically doesn't have any official drivers yet.
 
easyrider said:
Justifing a card that cost peanuts?


LOL

Its a GFX card and the GTS will not be 200 at launch.Not when GT's are close to this.

I wanted the GTS to widen the gap over the GT so I could get one.

Anyone with a GT doesn't need to.Thats the point.
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£150 might be peanuts in your deluded mind but to a lot of people that's a fair amount of cash. Oh and can I borrow your crystal ball Mystic Meg?.

The drivers used were possibly very early alpha/beta drivers and thus we can expect some improvement from those (the GT got multiple sets which upped performance quite a bit on release)

Take results with a pinch of salt.
 
So what exactly is the point of this card? Marginal increase in performance over the GT (apart from in Vista), hardly any cooler and quite a large jump in power consumption. There was me thinking of sticking my GT on the bay to get one of these. Think i will stick with what i have for a while.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
No, luck played a big part since most retailers sold out within minutes of the 150 quid stock and are yet to get more in at that price.
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Like I said calculated. We spent most of the morning on launch day hunting for the cheapest cards.

Tom|Nbk said:
Also the GT is behind the GTX in almost every benchmark so it's hardly GTX performance :) (technically speaking :))
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Not sure the GTX spanks my OC GT in most games. Technically speaking ;)

With regard to benchmarks lets look at 3D Mark 06. Oh dear I don't see a GTX anywhere? :D

Just to be clear I'm not a fanboy. I buy technology because I find it interesting and the GT for the money is one interesting card I'm sure you will agree? :)
 
niko said:
something seems strange to me
on the first crisis graph it shows the gt being faster than the new gts on medium settings
dont see how that can be true
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just to get this in front of the well i wont /will be buying one posts
can anyone explain this?
 
Well looks like i made the right decision to get the GT afterall and not hold out for this, couple of frames faster at my res (1280x1024), but lets face it, its hardly much faster at any res there, and its gona be what, i rekon around £280, not worth it over the GT for a couple of frames, im happy, i had a feeling it wouldn't be that much faster anyway seen as its juts a GT with an extra 16x streams. :)
 
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The Asgard said:
Like I said calculated. We spent most of the morning on launch day hunting for the cheapest cards.

Not sure the GTX spanks my OC GT in most games. Technically speaking ;)

With regard to benchmarks lets look at 3D Mark 06. Oh dear I don't see a GTX anywhere? :D

Just to be clear I'm not a fanboy. I buy technology because I find it interesting and the GT for the money is one interesting card I'm sure you will agree? :)
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Oh my God! Just enjoy your purchase and stop crowing about it man!

Go and play with it, before you forget the reason you bought it in the first place - although I suspect its already happened....

So so very very booooooring!!
 
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