New Nvidia GeForce 8800GT Surprises

[EricVPI]

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

 

[DiamondWraith]

Cool thanks
I'm gonna wait a bit longer to see if newegg comes around... if not then I guess Canada will be getting my money!

 

[aadamszc]

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

 

[EricVPI]

I dont mean how long delivery takes, I meant how long for them to get the box outta their warehouse. I'm impatient I ordered my new comp parts last night and this videocard is all that's left, haha.

 

[jevon]

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.

 

[justinmcg67]

This certainly makes my claim from a business perspective as false. I'm bewildered by this product. G92 really has things to offer; even more than I initially thought. A product that performs virtually on par with the flagship product and demolishes EVERY 8 series product (excluding GTX and Ultra) is astonishing. Given half the cost but on-par performance in comparison to the GTX is quite interesting.

Not only does it beat its 8 series brothers, but it stomps the HD2900 series. AMD is in a very tight spot. Looking at the benches, it now makes no sense whatsoever to purchase an AMD product. AMD needs to do something fast, or else NVIDIA is on its way to gaining unseen profits in the Desktop GPU market.

 

[tawilson]

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.

 

[w1ntermute0]

Here is the PNY card at buy.com
http://www.buy.com/prod/geforce-xlr8-8800gt-pcie-512mb-ctlrdvi-i-hdtv/q/loc/101/206166489.html

And here is the MSI Overclocked Card at buy.com

http://www.buy.com/prod/MSI-GeForce...-Dual-DVI-Video-Card/q/loc/101/206209282.html


Both out of stock, but you can still order...

enjoy

wm

 

[justinmcg67]

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*)

 

[godplaysdice83]

Hey all, this is my first post, hopefully it's a helpful one...
Newegg has the card "in stock":
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150252

 

[EricVPI]

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.

 

[dostanio]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/nVIDIA-GeForce-8800GT-512M-DDR3-600-1800Mhz-8800-GT-NEW_W0QQitemZ130167642635QQihZ003QQcategoryZ3762QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem was a very good buy!! for £156.00 but he sold 28 ones in less than 2 days!!

 

[DiamondWraith]

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

 

[jwolf24601]

Just submited my Step-Up program for an 8800gt. Took EVGA all morning to start it up...

$259.99 for the stock speed 8800gt at EVGA website (overclocked versions were not listed in the step up at this time, did not want to wait and have them run out of stock.)

-$159.99 for my 8600GTS and that's a $112 8800gt

Not a bad program IMO, got the nice video playback of the 8600gts for almost three months and now a cheaper upgrade to superior gaming performance.

 

[DiamondWraith]

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

 

[d3f1]

i just went to the EVGA website and you can apparently buy directly from there...

 

[EricVPI]

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

 

[sunny27]

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

i will have some vodka--thank you!!

btw i am gonna get this card within 10 days .4 of these brands available here right away-xfx,msi,gigabyte and a singaporean brand-galaxy(cheapest brand of the lot by 20-50$ compared to the others though its clocked the same like other cards it comes with a scanty bundle)
which one do i buy?? msi/gigabyte/xfx?

 

[justinmcg67]

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.

 

[EricVPI]

I laugh at all those people who doubted my "first asian review"! Baha!

 

[PGHammer]

I have entered the Twilight Zone...


I am bedazzled by the price and performance and size.

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/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150173 (320 MB 8800GTS from XFX)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150252 (512 MB 8800GT from XFX)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150240 (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.)

 

[PGHammer]

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.

http://www.ncixus.com/products/26778/512-P3-N802-A1/eVGA/

(OC EVGA 8800GT in the US)

 

[Zer0xChan]

Ordered the EVGA one from ncixus earlier this morning at the $239 price point, though now it's listed as out of stock with a price jump so I guess I'll see what happens. Been waiting quite a while for the release of this to upgrade my x850pro.

 

[justinmcg67]

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.

what exactly tells you that there is a bottleneck in the pci-e bus?

I never said there was...

also, why would a faster proc help?

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

the toms test did not show any signs of a bottleneck especially since the review was so lacking in data

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

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

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*

 

[TSIMonster]

Anyone want a week old 8800GTS 320?