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NVIDIA's 8800 Ultra Provides Performance at a Price

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pixels-and-vectors-and-shading-oh-my dept.

Mighty Mouse writes "Hardware review sites across the web have published reviews on NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 Ultra. The response appears to be fairly lukewarm at the moment, mainly thanks to its incredibly high asking price. Bit-tech tested the 8800 Ultra in eight different games at three resolutions, finding it to be on average about 10% faster. TechReport's Scott Wasson reviewed the card using another good selection of games, while HotHardware had the chance to check out SLI performance."

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  1. Faster? Yes. Performance for pricepoint? No. by hsa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read this review.

    http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2979

    And conclusion
    "But not this time: The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra is an utter waste of money. "

    Don't pay $180 extra for something that gives only few percents extra.

  2. It is a complete RIP OFF!!! by Fallen+Kell · · Score: 4, Informative

    The reviews that were posted here on /. while good normally didn't do their homework today with this new card. Only Anandtech seemed to take a look at what is currently available in terms of factory overclocked 8800GTX's on the market. They used the EVGA 8800GTX KO w/AC3, which benches within less then 1% of the performance of the 8800 Ultra AND costs $180 LESS!

    Read the review yourself....

    --
    We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
  3. Re:Nvidia keeps releasing Hardware without Drivers by dhakbar · · Score: 2, Informative

    They just released the new Forceware drivers today.