BFG 8800GTS on sale early

Darksaber · Nov 7, 2006

Some lucky Austrians got their BFG Geforce 8800GTS early. 12 of them were sold by a local computer store today. Lets just say I am one of those lucky ones:

Prices for a Geforce 8800GTS range from 429 Euros for the Asus variant to just under 500 Euros. The BFG sells for 469.99€.

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D_o_S · Nov 7, 2006

Nice

Got benchmarks?

xylomn · Nov 7, 2006

post benchmarks or we will have to beat them out of you with large pointy sticks

L|NK|N · Nov 7, 2006

Its good to be an Aussie isnt it?
DROOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!! :toast:

15th Warlock · Nov 7, 2006

[517th]LiNKiN said:
Its good to be an Aussie isnt it?
DROOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!

Aussies are Australians, not Austrians

Darksaber, please post some benchmarks for us simple mortals! :toast:

So you are one of the first persons on this planet to have a DX10 video card!, I'm so green with envy! :respect:

L|NK|N · Nov 7, 2006

15th Warlock said:
Aussies are Australians, not Austrians

Darksaber, please post some benchmarks for us simple mortals!

So you are one of the first persons on this planet to have a DX10 video card!, I'm so green with envy!

OOps

I definately misread his post. :laugh:

I hope 5pm comes soon.

muon · Nov 7, 2006

Haha, how much do you think theyd fetch on ebay

:.

EviLZeD · Nov 7, 2006

yourr so lucky man

benchies?

L|NK|N · Nov 7, 2006

The suspense is killing me :eek:

I have never been this excited about an Nvidia card.
Depending on these benchies I might FINALLY leave AGP in the dust..... :eek:

i_am_mustang_man · Nov 7, 2006

bench!

there's a chinese review site with both g80 cards, but it's not very reputable looking/can't really know what they mean even with babelfish translation

L|NK|N · Nov 7, 2006

drum roll plz.................................... :rockout:

Seany1212 · Nov 7, 2006

please for the love of god post some benchmarks :roll:

, i'm ripping my balls of with suspense :laugh:

Darksaber · Nov 7, 2006

Look for a full review here on TPU!.com

I will give you preliminary benchies ASAP

Jimmy 2004 · Nov 7, 2006

How did you get so lucky?!

Darksaber · Nov 7, 2006

just checked the shop for something else...and there it was. There were 6 left at the time of my order. The only way to get one put aside for me was to hit "will pick up" instead of delivery. So I drove 20 miles to pick it up

The guy behind the counter (I know him well) jokingly said "we had to send em all back" *G* I just smiled and said "yea just the GTX not the GTS" and he was "right you are" and went to fetch my card from the back

3dMark06 benchies in 20 min.

xylomn · Nov 7, 2006

luck had nothing to do with it.... only the dark arts could have done this....

how many babies did you have to sacrifice

Agility · Nov 7, 2006

I have a GTX for sale in singapore here. $998.

http://216.147.36.17/livestore/prod...=3565&osCsid=5f01fbb27cb31639f944b5f890e588b6

15th Warlock · Nov 7, 2006

Darksaber said:
The guy behind the counter (I know him well) jokingly said "we had to send em all back" *G* I just smiled and said "yea just the GTX not the GTS" and he was "right you are" and went to fetch my card from the back

I knew reading tech news daily would come in handy one day, don't you agree?

Darksaber · Nov 7, 2006

alright, do not be dissapointed:
3DMark 06
7555 on a normal Windows maschine X2 4600+ (S939) with 2GB DDR400 and dirty windows install.

remember G80 is mainly CPU dependent...so benchmarks with a QuadCore or high speed Core 2 Duo/X2 AM2 chip will yield much better results!

I will do a complete review if I get the time for it

cheers
DS

15th Warlock · Nov 7, 2006

Nice, thanks

Darksaber said:
remember G80 is mainly CPU dependent...so benchmarks with a QuadCore or high speed Core 2 Duo/X2 AM2 chip will yield much better results!

I don't totally agree with you on this, I mean, although a faster proc will certainly help in every benchmark and game, the G80 isn't per se any more or less CPU dependent than any other particular GPU, I would say that 3DMark06 is very CPU dependent because of how it integrates the CPU score to the overall score. Check the 3dMark03 and '05 scores some other sites are posting for further proof of this

Thanks for the benchmark though, and congrats on your new video card.

i_am_mustang_man · Nov 7, 2006

maybe we could get individual sm2.0 and sm3.0 scores in addition to overall score

pt · Nov 7, 2006

lucky austrians :shadedshu , a shop near me, doesn't have them yet, but they do have the evga i680 on stock, and waiting for the NDA to be pulled of for it to be on sale

muon · Nov 7, 2006

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=183970&postcount=42

Darksaber · Nov 7, 2006

15th Warlock said:
Nice, thanks

I don't totally agree with you on this, I mean, although a faster proc will certainly help in every benchmark and game, the G80 isn't per se any more or less CPU dependent than any other particular GPU, I would say that 3DMark06 is very CPU dependent because of how it integrates the CPU score to the overall score. Check the 3dMark03 and '05 scores some other sites are posting for further proof of this

Thanks for the benchmark though, and congrats on your new video card.

ah

well I do not mean 3dMark06, I actually mean the GPU/CPU pair. A 8800 with a high end CPU will certainly give you a lot more points:
http://www.techpowerup.com/?19498

I will take the reports of theINQ with a grain of salt, but it is safe to say, that the GPU is more CPU dependant than ever before...

I will OC everything (System and such) to see how far I can get.

cheers
DS

Makaveli · Nov 8, 2006

if u can how about some actual in game benchmarks instead of 3dcrap

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