7800GT specs & price

[Soccerman06]

This is only new if you havent looked at Anand homepage: Link. Guess its an OCed to. MSRP at $450. I see Nvidia pulling a x800pro with 4 pipes less and lower clocks than the higher-end card its based on. If ATI comes out with a 32 pipe x900pro with lower speeds, or even a 28 pipe card might be able to dominate this gen of cards (maybe).

Sorry for all you hopeful AGP people because this is PCI-E only also.

 

[Munky]

It's news to me 😀

But the specs are pretty close to what most people were expecting.

 

[hans030390]

I'm assuming this will be able to unlock pipes and OC to a gtx? I'd assume so, the way cards usually work.

$450 does seem...a little overpriced...but, i'm assuming also that prices will drop fast on these too, like they did with the 7800gtx.

i think there's a bird in my house...

 

[Soccerman06]

Maybe, maybe not hans. It takes work to turn the x800pro into a x800xt/pe, and only a VIVO. I would not be willing to throw away $450 dollars on something I could mess up. But hey thats me.

Anyways Im looking forward to the 3rd card Nvidia is going to release with the "power of 3" advertising.

Who wants a

 

[JBT]

Havn't we seen some deals for 7800 GTX's for like 470 already on Dell's website? I can't see this price lasting long.

 

[gunblade]

Hopefully, the bios strap quad unlocking way of rivatuner still works as well as the 6 series.

 

[blckgrffn]

They'll have to tweak Rivatuner first, but we can hope 😀

 

[Munky]

Maybe it can be unlocked, maybe it can't. So far I have not seen any pcie cards that can be unlocked, only agp.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: JBT
Havn't we seen some deals for 7800 GTX's for like 470 already on Dell's website? I can't see this price lasting long.

I think that price was like 447 bucks in early July.

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: munky
Maybe it can be unlocked, maybe it can't. So far I have not seen any pcie cards that can be unlocked, only agp.

true, but why is that?

 

[R3MF]

my 4000MP fillrate and 16GB bandwidth 6600GT is exactly half the power of a 7800GT, sounds like a great upgrade provided i can pick one up for around £250..........

 

[Bona Fide]

It's gonna drop to sub-$400 REAL quick.

And since that one was an OC board, I bet the real one is 400/1000 or 400/980.

 

[xtknight]

If it is out soon, it probably will be unlockable because it would have taken another couple months to "tape out" a new chip.

 

[imported_Kensai]

It looks pretty good. Let's hope it drops alot more.