ASUS GeForce 8800GS 550MHZ 384MB for $38.24 AR+$17ship

[Whipped]

I know it's not the GTX280 but it's still a great card for a low price. Link

 

[Schmide]

$17.28 shipping to the US? Ouch

 

[quadomatic]

Urgh....I just broke my 9600GSO...I could replace it with this. But now I'm all hyped up about the HD4830, especially since a simple bios flash will fire it past the HD4850.

But I don't think this card would be as fast as my 9600GSO was.

 

[Capitalizt]

Put $17 shipping in title.

 

[Schmide]

Originally posted by: quadomatic
Urgh....I just broke my 9600GSO...I could replace it with this. But now I'm all hyped up about the HD4830, especially since a simple bios flash will fire it past the HD4850.

But I don't think this card would be as fast as my 9600GSO was.

How can it not be as fast? It's the same card except for the name.

 

[sjwaste]

Does this beat a 7900GT for 1900x1200 gaming?

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: sjwaste
Does this beat a 7900GT for 1900x1200 gaming?

2x as fast

 

[OCNewbie]

NCIX's pricey shipping makes this less of a deal.

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: OCNewbie
NCIX's pricey shipping makes this less of a deal.

$55 total is a fantastic deal for this card. It's nearly 9800GT performance for $40 less.

 

[Tempered81]

how do these perform in sli? about like 9600gt sli?

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
how do these perform in sli? about like 9600gt sli?

I would assume so. They'll still start falling apart at 1080p or above simply because of the narrow memory bus.

 

[jlin101]

8800GS uses better pcb board than the identically spec'd G92 9600GSO. The recently revised G94 9600GSO switched to 48 shaders, 256-bit 512 MB memory, but performs even worse than either 8800GS or old 9600GSO. 8800GS's overclock very well--most have no touble hitting 700/1050.

 

[nsiderTalon]

How much of an upgrade will this be over my X1900XTX?

 

[Schmide]

Around a 33% better performance or your card performs 25% worse. Give or take.

 

[HamHam]

Anyone know the PS requirements for this card? Will it work with a 400 watt PS?

 

[Andrew1990]

Originally posted by: HamHam
Anyone know the PS requirements for this card? Will it work with a 400 watt PS?

The 9600GSO I had ran fine on a 400w PSU made by Hipro. It has 2 12v rails with 15a on each rail I believe.

 

[OCNewbie]

A 400w PSU is plenty for this card, assuming the PSU isn't a total POS.

 

[Schmide]

Card uses about 9a total

 

[frankqfrank]

This is the best you can do at the moment for $55. Rebate goes to tempe, AZ and is done with http://www.status-now.com. Haven't dealt with them before. Good deal!

 

[PG]

These are nice cards. I have one that has been folding for a few days now at 721/1836/1600 with no problems. I used the ASUS Smart Doctor for overclocking.
According to Fahmon it's at pace for 3850 ppd on WU 5757.
I have an Antec 300 case and I installed the optional twin 120mm intake fans, but I left the side fan out so that is just open.
This ASUS card is running at only 54 C even overclocked like it is.
Also note this ASUS card seems to have an extra voltage regulation power phase compared to EVGA and other brand cards I have seen.
Look at the picture with the heatsink removed here: http://www.digital-daily.com/video/asus_en8800gs/
See the 4 large gray things to the right of the memory chips? Most 8800GS or 9600GSO cards have 3.
I believe that having 4 means it has 3 phase power. One of them is for the memory, for the 4th.

 

[pinenuts]

What kind of shipping is it?

 

[Tempered81]

i paid $23 to ship two cards

 

[SimMike2]

Originally posted by: pinenuts
What kind of shipping is it?

The pony express.

 

[RBC]

Says not available for me but when I click the check stock button is shows plenty in the BC warehouse.