New Nvidia GeForce 8800GT Surprises

it peforms like 8800GTX in most benchmarks but when it comes to 1920x1200 resolution, it falls behind 8800GTX

Not I! am waiting on new to put the cards up. so i can order one. now this card will make my system more awesome then it is.

I still see no where to buy? Evgas website told me my setup window has closed today?

I'm still waiting for the inevitable SLI questions. 2 GT vs. 1 GTX... you know it's coming!!!

A nice article from Anandtech on the same subject:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3140

I'm not sure why everyone is getting so excited about this 8800 GT. My friendly local Wal-Mart has upgraded its inventory and is now carrying the NVidia 6200 Turbo Cache in place of the Nvidia GeForce 5500 they used to carry. Now THAT is something to get excited about.

I just wanna know where and when I can buy this bad mofo! My 7800GTX is about to get the boot!

Nice new card.

But where's the high end version?

We all know theres a version out there with 2x the performance of an 8800GTX so where the hell is it and where is DX10.1 support?

If Nvidia think I'm waiting until next year for the high end version and DX10.1 support they can go f*ck themselves it will be ATI for me as I only buy a new GC once every year to 18 months!

2 8800GT will beat a 8800GTX, but they will consume more power , also they still have 512mb memory (although its enough)

If you're looking for a well-known vendor to order from, buy.com is taking orders for the MSI 8800GT 512 overclocked card for $239 with free shipping. However they are still listed as "temporarily sold out". The PNY version with stock clocks is listed as "in stock soon".

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NCIX.com(Canada)
NCIXUS.com(USA)

They have eVGA, XFX, etc. From what I know, they are quite good.

You guys have direct links? I can't seem to find the 8800GT on any of those sites...

How fast are they getting out shipments? Fast or almost as fast as newegg?

They ship in a varying degree depending on which shipment plan you choose.

I can't answer that exactly, but if it's not same day it must be next day (depending on what time you place the order I suppose) because I live in Ontario and NCIX is located on the west coast (BC) and I always get my parts in excellent time. Very reputable site, great with RMAs and rebates if you have any probs; Canada's Newegg basically.

placed my order this morning at about 10:00am CST with buy.com, order confirmation email is in, but i will get an email when it ships, which i obviously haven't gotten yet. says it ships within 3-5 days on the site. you have to click on the above direct link, as searching for the 8800gt yields no results.

i really wanted a 2900pro, but.........well you know the story. now im glad i didn't get it anyway.

My only worry is that the stock of the 8800GT does not end up like the stock of the 2900 Pro. The manufacture needs to pump out as many of these things as humanly possible.

I get the vague feeling that the factory workers will be working over time a lot in the coming weeks. (Kind of like what we're doing at Intel right now, 10 hour days 5 days a week to yield more product *sigh*)

260? Kinda pricey considering they have an OC EVGA at that canadian site for 240 INCLUDING Quake Wars!

I might go Canadian anyways. None of the other 8800GT links work at newegg except for that one standard XFX.

OK just ordered from NCIXUS! Got the EVGA card so I can step up if they release a bad-A card by christmas.

WOOOOOOOOOOO! 8800GT party thread! Bring it on! I'm getting the booze.

Just ordered my superclocked 512 GT EVGA from mwave! 2 day shipping! This better arrive by Friday!

After reading Toms and Anandtech's articles on the 8800GT, I see more potential later on down the road for it's PCI-Express 2.0 capabilities. This helps me give reason as to why this card is performing very well for a great price. When the X38 is released and this card is put on the board with a Penryn based CPU, I think the true potential of this card will be seen. Suddenly in my eyes the possibility of it surpassing an 8800GTX Ultra is becoming more and more plausible.

Crysis is supposed to scale very well with hardware. Given the 8800GT and the PCI-Express 2.0 interface in conjunction with a Penryn based processor, in addition to DDR3, (which will soon become main stream) we will be able to see the cards full potential. being as how it's performing incredible right now on PCI-Express 1.1 buses and using first generation quad cores, we can be solid in stating the fact that this card has even more up it's sleeve.

Times are looking very good in the GPU market right now.

This is *the* card for those cheap dual/quad-core systems that have nV 8400/8500 cards installed (I'm thinking in particular of the Gateway GT5628 and GT5632E), as the 8800GT uses little more power, offers gobs more performance, and is not a wallet-buster (unlike even the 320 MB 8800GTS, which this nasty 8800GT completely invalidates).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814150173 (320 MB 8800GTS from XFX)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814150252 (512 MB 8800GT from XFX)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814150240 (640 MB 8800GTS from XFX)

Note that *right now*, the 8800GT costs less than even the 320 MB GTS, let alone the 640 MB GTS, yet, except at the taller end of the resolution scale, severely spanks both. If you have a 22" (or even 24" ) LCD display, you won't want to be pushing 1920x1080; you'll likely stick with 1680x1050; however, that is, in most cases, nicely reachable for an 8800GT SLI setup, which is $550 today. (That is about the price of a *single* 8800GTX.)

what exactly tells you that there is a bottleneck in the pci-e bus? also, why would a faster proc help? the toms test did not show any signs of a bottleneck especially since the review was so lacking in data which could lead one to a conclusion.

you have got to be one of the worst informed fan boy's to grace these forums in recent months.

can you back up anything you say, you are growing very tiresome.

I was speaking on the POTENTIAL of the card.

I never said there was...

To help demonstrate the potential of the PCI-Express 2.0 interface.

Than read another article that isn't lacking in data. It's a rather simple solution.

Sure I can back up claims that the PCI-express 2.0 Interface is faster and has potential. Look in the maximumPC Holiday 2007 issue. Talks all about it.

How ANY of what i said in my previous post makes me a fan boy is ridiculous. I was stating how A.) This new card has potential, primarily within the PCI-Express 2.0 interface, and B.) that it requires Penryn based products simply because of the fact that the X38 chipset is the only offering that has PCI-Express 2.0 support.

Thanks for starting a flame war in a great thread. I'm glad you have the decency to ruin things. You must be a really great person. *golfclap*