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Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-fanless-music-to-my-ears dept.

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."

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  1. Help me understand. by IndustrialComplex · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can understand if this card were released by a competitor, but why would Nvidia release a card that competes with their top of the line at such a low price? Who wouldn't want the cheaper card?

    The only thing I can think of is that the production costs were higher for the GTS, resulting in less profit per card...

    Can anyone clue me in?

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    1. Re:Help me understand. by Lord+Ender · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The GTS was to get money from early adopters, and remains on the market to squeeze money out of people who make purchasing decisions based on emotional ("I have the best!") rather than financial considerations. Everyone other serious game will henceforth buy the GT.

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    2. Re:Help me understand. by vux984 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      However, this would be an excellent time for nVidia to start letting Intel use SLI on chipsets.

      Meh, I'm unconvinced SLI is anything more than markting hot-rods to idiots. I think this is like the dual 3dfx Voodoo Monster II all over again. If the next generation cards can do in a single slot what todays cards need two or more in SLI for, then 99% of consumers will just wait for the next card, and only the twits who need/want the bragging rights of an SLI unit will go for it.

      I doubt any games are ever going to require an SLI setup.

      In any case think back to the 3dfx monster stuff and recall how that panned out. Instead of everyone needing an array of video cards to run the latest games the entire dual card thing was rendered obsolete because a single next gen card could beat a dual monster setup for half the price.

      And look at whats happening in CPU's... virtually nobody has a quad socket motherboard; and even dual sockets are a rare niche product. Yet we've had support for it on the desktop since 2000. But instead the trend has been to multi-core cpu's. The cost benefit just isn't there for multiple socket cpus or multiple card video solutions. However, if they can do "SLI on a single board"... that will be your next generation solution.

      My 0.02 on the subject...

  2. Re:Kicker by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Half the price and almost the same frame rate is irrelevent?

    Weird.

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