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With the dawn of graphics hogging video cards, most gamers who are not fortunate enough to be rich (*cough *me *cough* we’re left drooling in front of their monitor and staring at screenshots of Unreal Tournament 3 or Crysis. Holding on to the faint hope that a parent or a close relative (or even Santa?) getting us an expensive video card for Christmas would seem lowly or childish, but hey let’s face it, spending over $400 for anything can bring the stingy side out of anyone who would work hard just to squeeze that extra dollar out from their work.
Luckily for us, the Christmas spirit did it’s work a little bit earlier for this year. Nvidia decided to play Santa by lifting the NDA on their latest product, the XFX Geforce 8800 GT. NO they are not giving it away for free silly, but it’s gonna be priced $250 lesser than the 8800 GTX or $30 cheaper BUT beefier than the 8800 GTS.
You can just imagine what you can do with that extra $250. Invest more in other computer parts, another stick of RAM or a Nintendo DS or PSP. Getting an 8800 GTS would seem illogical when this baby hits the market. Why buy an inferior and more expensive card when you can get better GPU that costs $30 less?
Geforce 8800 GT ($249.00)
Stream Processors : 112
Core clock : 600 Mhz
Shader clock : 1.5 Ghz
Memory clock : 900 Mhz
Memory : 512 MB GDDR3 (256 MB for $199 or less)
Memory Interface : 256-bit
Geforce 8800 GTS ($279.00)
Stream Processors : 96
Core clock : 500 Mhz
Shader clock : 1.2 Ghz
Memory clock : 800Mhz
Memory : 320 MB GDDR3 (640MB for $375)
Memory Interface : 320-bit
Geforce 8800 GTX ($499.00)
Stream Processors : 128
Core clock : 575 Mhz
Shader clock : 1.35 Ghz
Memory clock : 900 Mhz
Memory : 768 MB GDDR3
Memory Interface : 384-bit
Several Graphics card manufacturers are also planning on selling 256MB variants that would sell for less than$199.
“Nvidia was able to lower the price and increase performance by redesigning the chip and shrinking the manufacturing process from 90nm down to 65nm. The older 90nm GPUs required card manufacturers to add a separate display chip onto each card, but that functionality is now integrated into the GeForce 8800 GT. The GPU also includes an upgraded PureVideo processing engine.” – Gamespot
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I wonder if the 8800GT will reach us before xmas.
Can anyone tell me which is better, or a must have?
First I have a AMD 64 5000 BLK EDITION CPU with a ATI 3870 Graphic card. Please let me know which is better. I need to know b-4 I return one.
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