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**Offical 8800Ultra owners thread** post pics and clocks.

Emlyn_Dewar said:
I thought the Ultra had lower power consumption at the same clocks?
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Yes, but by a relatively insignificant margin.

No-one who is willing to spend £600 on a graphics card is going to do so to save £1 per month on their electricity bill.

This card seems only to be useful for those going for benchmarking records / extreme overclocking etc.
 
maybe someone should cut and past this into a new thread title ...



** The Official OcUK i was dumb enough to buy an 8800 Ultra please flame me thread **



because anyone who buys one, either has issues, or a very small e-penis


:)
 
Toryglen-boy said:
** The Official OcUK i was dumb enough to buy an 8800 Ultra please flame me thread **
:)
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Or alternatively:
** The Official OcUK look how stupid I am to buy an 8800 Ultra for the price of a PS3 and an Xbox360 put together thread **
and so on...
 
snazzy_dazzy said:
and overclockers allows this....... :rolleyes:
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Gibbo (ocuk sales manager) already said that he thinks that the Ultra is a waste of money, isn't going to be ordering many units, and doesn't expect many units to sell.

I think this is one product it's almost impossible to put a positive spin on, unless you're wealthy to the point where £500+ is truly just small change.
 
Duff-Man said:
Nah, the 256mb 9800pro was around before the 9800XT came out.

I know this for sure, because I was involved in a legal wrangle with a particular company around that time.

It was between the time that the XT was announced, and when it was released. The 256mb 9800pro was mistakenly advertised by this company at £130 (when it was retailing for around £300 at the time, being the top end model). A few hundred people placed orders overnight at the time, and the company resisted, saying that the price was clearly a mistake. In the end though, they had also advertised the product at this price in an edition of PC zone, and so had to admit that the price wasn't 'clearly' wrong, as it wasn't spotted before the ad was placed. In the end, we all got 128mb versions of the card at £130 instead (which was still a bargin) :p
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LOL. I remember that, weren't the company called K...

They even had the cheek to say to PC Zone "a few of our HONEST customers were good enough to point out our pricing error".
 
Duff-Man said:
I'm all up for new, faster high-end products - in fact I love them. But this 8800Ultra takes the biscuit.

Not only is it a pathetically small clock-bump with no architectural improvements, but it creates a new and completely unjustified price point! In a way it reminds me of the 9800XT (the successor to 9800pro and merely a small clockspeed bump), although at least ATI introduced it at the same price as the 9800pro was originally.

I've never thought this way about a computer-related product before, but I seriously hope that people don't go out and buy this card. I don't want to see nvidia turn a profit from such a cynical move.
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At lest the core clock bump not as bad as ATI x1900xt-x over there x1900xt (25mhz)

And many people including myself :eek: payed the extra for an x1900xt-x over the x1900xt...
 
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chaparral said:
At lest the core clock bump not as bad as ATI x1900xt-x over there x1900xt (25mhz)

And many people including myself :eek: payed the extra for an x1900xt-x over the x1900xt...
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you shoulda said x1950xtx over x1900xtx, no clock bump on core, 225Mhz bump on memory and gddr4 over 3. bit pointless,
 
chaparral said:
At lest the core clock bump not as bad as ATI x1900xt-x over there x1900xt (25mhz)

And many people including myself :eek: payed the extra for an x1900xt-x over the x1900xt...
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xtx cores were cherry picked and were guaranteed to use high quality, lower ns rated ram. xt got standard cores and it was hit and miss depending on what ram you got on the card.

For the overclocker, it was a good choice.
 
Bizarre said:
LOL. I remember that, weren't the company called K...

They even had the cheek to say to PC Zone "a few of our HONEST customers were good enough to point out our pricing error".
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Yeah, they were :)

I wrote a letter to PC zone about it in fact, which they printed :D

They did lots of daft things in that time, like for example sending out a group email with all the email addresses of those they were sending to visible (which was also a breach of data protection act, but it was all good because it allowed us to band together and create a forum!). They also said things like that the offer was totally unrealistic, when they had plastered all over their website the slogan "If you can't believe the prices, it must be K*****!". Not to mention their totally lax automated and yet legally binding "confirmation" emails.
 
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