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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. $200-250 is NOT cheap! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    $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'.

    1. Re:$200-250 is NOT cheap! by Aladrin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      All of today's $100 cards perform better than cards from 5 years ago. Happy?

      The same complaint you've just made can be made for -all- computer components. The high-end ($400) stuff -is- insanely expensive, and only for the true die-hard hobbyists. The hobbyist ($200) stuff is for those that want to enjoy the sport, but can't afford to throw their money away. And the cheap stuff ($100) is for those that don't really care and the low-end stuff is good enough.

      If you're not a gamer, you have -no- reason to buy a card at all. The onboard video is more than good enough. (I use an onboard Intel GMA 3000 on my Kubuntu box and it runs Compiz better than my ATI at work.)

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    2. Re:$200-250 is NOT cheap! by krunk7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I spend 250 dollars for a night out at a nice restaurant with my wife, especially if a nice bottle of wine is included.

      Wh wouldn't I spend this on a one time purchase that will provide hours and hours of entertainment for up to 1.5 years?

    3. Re:$200-250 is NOT cheap! by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They ARE wasting their lives, they're just being paid to do it. You sound as if every bum on the street, prostitute, meth dealer, or prison inmate isn't wasting their lives because they get paid to do something vaguely resembling work.
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      You're better off keeping a real job
      I think the confusion sets in, right here. How is a "real job" less life-wasting? Is there any employed person (whether they're a meth dealer or a doctor), who isn't "wasting their life?" You do work for someone else, and get paid. Then you come home and use the money to do something for yourself.
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  2. Re:Help me understand. by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the "competitor" is two weeks away from a major new product launch.

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  3. Can you Luddites find a new site please? by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. Nice looking card by Emetophobe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here are the main benefits I see with this card:

    1. Single slot cooler instead of a dual slot like all the other high end cards made over the last 2 years
    2. One 6 pin power connection instead of two like all the other high end G80 cards
    3. Power consumption. According to the article (yes I read it), Nvidia rates the power consumption of the 8800GT at 110 watts.
    4. Supports PCI Express 2.0 (backwards compatible with PCI Express 1.1)
    5. Relatively cheap. I always found $200-300 to be the best price range for a video card (the high end G80 cards on the other hand cost $500-800)