NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT Review by VR-Zone

[newconroer]

I know there's a nice set of upgraded features with the lighter, more 'efficient' and somewhat more powerful GTs, but why are people considering dropping their current GTS/GTX for one of these when they know the 9800s are coming?


Really, I'm curious.

 

[Wile E]

I know there's a nice set of upgraded features with the lighter, more 'efficient' and somewhat more powerful GTs, but why are people considering dropping their current GTS/GTX for one of these when they know the 9800s are coming?


Really, I'm curious.

To make money on them while they still have some value. Dump your current high end card while it's worth something, buy the cheaper card to get you by while keeping the money difference squirreled away, then when the new high-end releases, sell the GT, take the money you squirreled away, plus what you sold the GT for, and put it to the purchase of the new high-end card.

At least that's what I gathered from some of the comments made by people planning to sell a GTX for a GT.

 

[newconroer]

Aye, I gathered that too, but it didn't seem all that lucrative. Given that prices of things drop considerably as soon as their 'opened,' and not everyone is a master ebayer or even has decent resources to sell their products. Who would they sell them to? I see many FS threads go without resolution here at TPU alone.


I suppose it may work for people who want to be on that cutting edge, but seems a bit of an uncessary effort for the gain.

Maybe if the GT offered more I'd be keen, but holding out for the 9800 sounds nice. I heard some prices as low as $550-650 USD(relative) for the GTX? Obviously an early estimate, but sounds good to me!

I heard they have 'extended' 1gig RAM but come with 768mb native?

 

[OrbitzXT]

Wile is spot on, that's exactly what I plan on doing. Yes, a lot of things lose value when opened, but 8800's even while used still sell well. I expect to get at least 450 for it, buy a GT that will last me for a long enough time until its time to upgrade.

 

[Wile E]

Aye, I gathered that too, but it didn't seem all that lucrative. Given that prices of things drop considerably as soon as their 'opened,' and not everyone is a master ebayer or even has decent resources to sell their products. Who would they sell them to? I see many FS threads go without resolution here at TPU alone.


I suppose it may work for people who want to be on that cutting edge, but seems a bit of an uncessary effort for the gain.

Maybe if the GT offered more I'd be keen, but holding out for the 9800 sounds nice. I heard some prices as low as $550-650 USD(relative) for the GTX? Obviously an early estimate, but sounds good to me!

I heard they have 'extended' 1gig RAM but come with 768mb native?

Ebay still pulls in good prices on used computer stuff. Seems to be a lot of noobs on there buying. I've sold used electronics on eBay for what they are worth new. "Buy it now" sucks them in real quick. lol. I imagine this convoluted way of obtaining the next top card will work for many of these people. Would never work in the FS forum tho. lol

 

[newconroer]

450 USD, sounds lovely.

Maybe I'll look into pricing on this spare GTS. Will GTs need their own/special liquid blocks?

Ya Wile, if I can get an idea of where this may go best for..but then again FS forums might work in my favor as we have a decent amount of Euro members, but not often Euro sellers.

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

I am liking this but would like to see first ATI's lineup. This will though most likely be my card.

 

[Cold Storm]

Ebay still pulls in good prices on used computer stuff. Seems to be a lot of noobs on there buying. I've sold used electronics on eBay for what they are worth new. "Buy it now" sucks them in real quick. lol. I imagine this convoluted way of obtaining the next top card will work for many of these people. Would never work in the FS forum tho. lol

lol. The first thing a "noob" should be tought is the fact that if you look around you can find things for "cheeper". Ebay, newegg, and tpu, may be the best places to buy things, but there is a search engine called "google" that maybe able to help find a cheeper thing... I highly dought that it can, but you never know.

 

[newconroer]

Don't 'noobs' use Newegg ??? hehe

 

[Cold Storm]

lol, Newegg is the "gateway". Every "noob" should be tought by someone the ways to use the "advance" functions on Newegg.com. Then tought that "research" is the key factors on doing anything for your rig, or the new one that won't get out of your head. Then, they should be sent on here, striped down to chair, and read all the articles that people have spent their time on writing about the, "noobs way of life at the beginning", and the world will be good.. For all the "noobs" that don't.... Its going to be a cold and long road to "Geekville"
As for the card that we're talking about... Like I've said before... If the people at VR-Zone is telling the truth, then i might be sold... It will take alot to sell me on an non ATI card...

 

[v-zero]

I've ordered one. £155 was just too good to skip on, now I can play Crysis with lots of AA at Very High on my projector (720p) - yay!

 

[Deleted member 24505]

were'd ya buy it from?

 

[v-zero]

were'd ya buy it from?

It's an inno3D from ebuyer - it's on pre-order but I never have problems with them, and it's supposed to come in tomorrow.

 

[newtekie1]

I want two. Not so I can run them in SLI, but so I can have one to put in my computer and another to sleep with at night!

J/K I want them for SLI.

 

[Cold Storm]

I want two. Not so I can run them in SLI, but so I can have one to put in my computer and another to sleep with at night!

J/K I want them for SLI.

Just write to Nvidia and see if because of fan base that they can make the whole 8800GT bed set! Or, if you think thats to "OVER THE EDGE", see what they are doing with teh fan base on the "Key chain" type of thing.

 

[keakar]

I get where your getting at Eastcoasthandle. I got at it on the first post and know what the new directX 10.1 is offering. But its just an update that allows what they couldn't do in beginning. If the 8800gt has the new directx then its going to be a bigger plus on getting it. I just hope what the vr-zone people show is true... I'm a ATI AMD person, but if you can sell me something better than I'm all for that..

direct x 10.0 needs a simple update to become 10.1 and it is not being "rigged" , as someone else refered to it, in doing so it is being updated just like a driver gets regular updates on a regular basis.

direct x 10 will only be "replaced" by direct x 11 and untill that happens we will see updates to direct x 10.0 to become 10.1 / 10.2 / 10.3 etc. just like we had 9.0 then 9.0a / 9.0b / 9.0c

I'm a ATI AMD person

its understandable why you wish ati would finally have something better than nvidia, after all you have been waiting a very very long time for them to catch up. they will, just give them untill next year and you will see ati return to having products that can compete head to head with nvidia.

 

[Cold Storm]

Thank you Keakar on the whole understanding on what the word "update" means.. After seeing ATI putting out a AGP HD 2600 card, I'm going to wait and build my new rig untill they come out with the "HD 3800" series... But for the people who perfer Nvidia, I'm all for the new cards and hope they work with the systems that you have, and wanted to build.