EVGA Announces e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked

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EVGA today announced its superclocked version of the DirectX 10 e-GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics card. EVGA's implementation of the Geforce 8800 Ultra card includes 768MB of high speed GDDR3 memory, core clock speed of 655MHz and 2.25GHz memory clock. The EVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked has a recommended retail price of $899.99 in United States and €899 in Europe. In addition to the e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked EVGA also introduced the e-GeForce 8800 Ultra KO (knock-out) version (P/N: 768-P2-N885 in the US, and P/N: 768-P2-E885 in Europe) priced at $859.99 in United States and €859 in Europe. The EVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra KO has also been tuned to 636MHz core clock speed and identical memory speed of 2.25GHz. Both video cards will be available starting May 15th, 2007 through EVGA's network of e-tailers, retailers and distributors.



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[WarEagleAU]

I dont see many folks buying any of these cards. Nvidia is nucking futs if they think someone is gonna buy these in droves.

 

[Dark Ride]

I wonder what the nvidia/evga folks were thinking with this Ultra.

 

[hv43082]

It's a luxury item that those w/ money would buy for the bling factor. Kinda like an expensive exotic sport car. You can can tune up your rice rocket to the same performance but you cannot get the bling factor.

 

[Deleted member 3]

It's marketing, now they can say they have the fastest card available. That's the whole point of the ultra in the first place. They don't expect to sell that many.

 

[ShinyG]

These prices are just nuts!
And who pays 50$ extra for a measly 20mhz!?!
I think these are going to sell, as nVidia has a lot of fanboys that are willing to pay this much for a video card...

 

[DaMulta]

It's marketing, now they can say they have the fastest card available. That's the whole point of the ultra in the first place. They don't expect to sell that many.

 

[Dark Ride]

It's marketing, now they can say they have the fastest card available. That's the whole point of the ultra in the first place. They don't expect to sell that many.

You didn't pay close attention, I said "this Ultra" not "the Ultra". I wasn't talking about the Ultra in general, since I know too what it's purpose is. But this specific version, like ShinyG said, is $50 bucks more for 20MHz. Makes the Ultra even more of a ridiculous choice for a graphics card.

 

[PyroInc]

$900 are you kidding me. I'd much rather get two 8800 gtx's and oc them my self.:shadedshu

 

[infrared]

Woah!!! I need to get me one of those puppies [/sarcasm]

Fair play to them though, someone will buy them. Basically free money from the stupid

 

[hat]

People will spend $50 extra because if people can afford this they won't care and most likely do care about the warranty... it's still warranted if eVGA overclocks it but if the end user fucks with it then your warranty dies.

 

[a111087]

lol, i would rather buy 2 r600 for that price

 

[hat]

Once R600 comes out nVidia's prices will come tumbling down, and this card will probally be at a farily more reasonable $450-500, while the $400 R600 cards will eat these things alive, if all the E-rumors are wrong about the R600. OR possibly the whole 8800 series will be cheapened by a good abmount to try to take the mid-range market while ATi R600 pimps the high-end market with ungodly prices like nVidia is doing now with themselves, heh. Who knows, we will see :|

 

[a111087]

yeah, it will be funny to watch some one buying $1000 card and on the next day its 40% cheaper

 

[SilentAces]

Once R600 comes out nVidia's prices will come tumbling down, and this card will probally be at a farily more reasonable $450-500 :|

i don't think so the highest end nv cards usually hold their high price b/c they don't make many of them and become very hard to find..i remember the first 512mb cards (7800gtx) were overpriced for the longest time because they were hard to find....some 7800's and 7900's are still more $$ than some of the newer g80's...and thier not as good....but i do think you are right to say the price will go down, but i doubt below $700's imo...

but still....$900....i can make better use of that $900 than 1 video card...

 

[Tatty_Two]

Thing that makes me chuckle, EVGA has priced these cards at $880 and 880 Euro.....in the UK as of today I can get more than $2 to the Pound but only 1.42 Euro's.....what a rip off for us poor Brits!

Think I will E Mail EVGA and suggest they go to extras maths lessons because their sums dont add up.

 

[hat]

$1249.60 for this in britian