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Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards
J. Dzhugashvili writes "What would you say to a video card that performs like a $400 GeForce 8800 GTS for $200-250? Say hello to the GeForce 8800 GT. The Tech Report has tested the new mid-range wonder in Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, Team Fortress 2, and BioShock. It found that the card keeps up with its $400 big brother overall while drawing significantly less power and — here's the kicker — generating slightly less noise."
$200-250 is a crazy amount to pay for a video card. $400 is insanely expensive. How much disposable income to you have, anyways?
You want to impress me? Show me a $50-100 video card that can perform as well as a $200. $50 falls into something I call 'cheap'.
I would say the kicker is that it draws significantly less power, rather than producing little noise.
Obviously, the fan is making the noise, not the chip.
I bet you could probably find a 8800GTX with some high-end silent cooling rig.
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Even at 'only' $250, it's that or a Wii. And the Wii is a stable platform, whereas your cutting edge premium card is going to look overpriced and behind the curve tomorrow - ask all the people who just ordered $400 8800 GTS cards how that feels.
Come on, own up: who's buying these console-priced cards, and why?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Because the "competitor" is two weeks away from a major new product launch.
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do you really think that the 8800gtx will still be nvidia's top-of-the-line card come Christmas?
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Seriously, what is it with the technology haters on Slashdot? This is a tech site and yes, there are people out there whole like having cutting edge tech for various reasons. Maybe they are just gamers with lots of money. Maybe they like having graphics that totally stomps on anything a Wii can do. Maybe they have a high end PC anyhow for other work, and as such a good card is worth it. Maybe the games they want to play are only for computer (like say World of Warcraft). Maybe they don't game, maybe they use them for 3D visualization like, say research with insects (just helped a professor at work buy one for that reason). Maybe they use them for GPGPU related things.
Quit hating just because you can't afford the newest toys. If someone can and if that's what they want, then great. You should be happy because guess what? That's where the Wii graphics come from. Lower end graphics come from higher end graphics. It costs a lot of money to develop new technology like this, and the high end is where the development cost gets reimbursed. You get the cheap, good graphics in the Wii precisely because ATi has done so much high end development and it has filtered down.
The people who buy lower end should be real thankful there is a high end. That's where the lower end comes from. nVidia can afford to sell the 8600 for $100 precisely because they paid the R&D costs with the expensive 8800s. The lower end is as cheap and as good as it is precisely because there's a high end.
I wasn't laughing at them. I was laughing at calling it a "sport" - I laugh the same way at golfers who call their game a 'sport'(Tiger Woods makes more taking a dump than all video sportsman combined). At least the golfers have to walk - a little.
The dictionary says, among other things, that a "sport" is a: 3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime..
Golf and video games both easily fit into that definition.
It's pretty funny that you're insulting golf, though. I'm guessing that you haven't golfed much, or, if you have played at all, you haven't tried to actually compete -- you'll find that playing golf well takes a fair amount of physical coordination and fitness. Similarly, the best video game players need both physical coordination and quick reflexes. That's not the same as the pure muscle strength that many sports require, but they're still far from purely mental activities.
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If you're looking for sympathy, you replied to the wrong dude. You made your purchase, and you get value for it. Maybe not what you expected, but caveat emptor.
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You've obviously have never played the sport of golf. Get off your buttocks and take a "strolling" round of this, ahem, non-sport of golf. (A good walk ruined, penned Mark Twain.)
Tiger Woods doesn't hit 300+ yard tee shots because he was simply walking a fairway for 72 holes a day. He also doesn't make the majority of his money off of the game/sport of golf.
Likewise, professional gamers do train for their "sport" and, if they are lucky, they earn most of their money from endorsements.
Do you realize what the alternative is?
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No, the difference is that the 8800 GTS is 90nm, and the 8800 GT is 65nm.
The Anantech review details things much, much better (unsurprisingly).
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Well, the GTS isn't the "best", so that wouldn't be a consideration. There is another reason though. I already have an 8800 GTS, so if I want to ever go SLI, I'll be getting another of the same card I have already. Not that I wouldn't like to get a GT for cheaper, but a second GTS would still be cheaper than two GTs.
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Perhaps this quote attributed to Ernest Hemingway can help clear this up: "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
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The cheapest you can buy this for is $260 not including shipping at Newegg. I don't know where he got that 200-249 range from, but the range I'm seeing is $260-$290.
So much for the return of the midrange. Midrange being the $150 card. Today's $150 card ie the 8600gts is a joke for DX10 and the newest games. No wonder the PC gaming industry is in the shitter and losing out to consoles. You need to spend almost $300 on a video card just to stay current.
When fast new systems with Dual Core cpus, 1GB of memory, and 19" LCDs, cost $500-$600 who in their right mind thinks spending $250 on a gpu isn't a ripoff?
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