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DEAD!!! (Orders cancelled!!!) PNY 8600GTS for $79.99 (no rebate) from PCClub.com.

Engineer

Engineer

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Edit: Orders being cancelled! 🙁

Credit: pulverizer @ SD and kingofighter @ FW.

Edit: LOOK OOS NOW! 🙁

Click me!

Seems like a very good deal.

Thoughts?
 
1 on its way for me! Thats a $200 card most places isnt it???? I tried to look it up on new egg but the sites been hosed all evening for me.....

A GT is $100+ isnt it?
 
Going to give it a shot, my X800 is definately feeling it's age & the Wife is fairly happy with her 8600GTS...

Miah
 
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
This better than an X1800/X1900GT?
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From Tom's charts, it's about on par with an X1900GT. Just a tad slower in the "overall" benchmark (1172 vs 1127).

It depends on the X1800 model. It's between the GTO and the XT (1800XT smokes it).
 
whoa! I am so tempted right now to buy this and sell my 6800GS. Hmm... Will it be that big of an upgrade?
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: GML3G0
whoa! I am so tempted right now to buy this and sell my 6800GS. Hmm... Will it be that big of an upgrade?
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Tom's didn't have a 6800GS on the charts, but I compared it to a 6800GT...

Whipped it's ass. 😀
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Now why did you have to go ahead and post that? 🙁 Looks like I'm in for one...

Thanks, Engineer!

The Hot Deals forum is not conducive to saving, but rather spending. 😀
 
Well, thanks for the heads up OP. I ordered one... But, I am thinking these orders might get cancelled. The card cannot be had anywhere else below 149.99... I am guessing they made a mistake and priced it at 79.99 instead of 179.99 which might have been their intent. If this goes through, I will be one happy camper. I gave my Dad my 8800GTS 640 when I built his new machine, but didn't released the GT's 3870's would be so inflated. So I am stuck using his old computer. Can't wait to run my rig again.

Cross your fingers fellas!
 
I have a 8600GT. Is it worth it to upgrade to this? I am really waiting for the 88GT's to be in stock and for MSRP $200. What do yu guys think of PCCLUB? I go to their b&m since it's closer than fry's.
 
I don't think the deal is completely outside the realm of possibility, especially for a black friday weekend. Microcenter had the EVGA 8600GTS for $99.99 after mail-in & I saw a couple other passably similar deals advertised here & there.

Nothing really wrong with the shipping either, people just need to get used to the fact that with gas prices the way they are & all the carriers raising prices + adding fuel surcharges....the days of $5-8 anything are ENDING.

Miah
 
Originally posted by: AgentUnknown
I have a 8600GT. Is it worth it to upgrade to this?
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No.

Btw, if you change your shipping method to something else and back, it seems to recalculate the cost down to $9. 😛
 
Originally posted by: AgentUnknown
I have a 8600GT. Is it worth it to upgrade to this? I am really waiting for the 88GT's to be in stock and for MSRP $200. What do yu guys think of PCCLUB? I go to their b&m since it's closer than fry's.
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If the 8600 GT isn't doing it for you, the 8600GTS will probably not keep you happy.
I'd save for the 8800GT.

The only differences between the 8600GT and 8600GTS are faster RAM clocks,
and faster shader clocks also, assuming you're talking about two 256MB/GDDR3 boards.

So if you overclock the 8600GT a bit you're already getting close to 8600GTS performance,
and if iy's way too slow in some games you care about I doubt the 8600GTS will be
wholly satisfactory though obviously this is a decent upgrade deal for those with a much older
model video card.

Proportionally this has HALF the memory bandwidth, and one QUARTER the shader
processors of an 8800GT whereas this is around 1/3rd the price of an 8800GT, so
if you use shader-heavy games i.e. high quality modes, use AA/AF, etc. the 8800GT
is actually a better deal in that it has four times the shaders (and faster) for only
three times the price, and of course twice the AMOUNT as well as twice the
BANDWIDTH of RAM too.

 
Would this make a good HTPC card? Been thinking about the 2600xt, but this, of course, is a better price...
 
whooo, according to Tom's chart one (let alone two in SLI) 7900GT whoops this card's butt. Just saved $80.
 
Originally posted by: amheck
Would this make a good HTPC card? Been thinking about the 2600xt, but this, of course, is a better price...
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I believe either this or the 2600XT would be good candidates for HTPC cards.

Anandtech et. al. have some interesting and informative articles about real world
video playback / decode processing on NVIDIA and ATI cards for high definition
HD video as well as DVD playback.

The 8600GT(S) at this price is probably the best HTPC candidate card from NVIDIA
as long as it performs to your satisfaction for any gaming you may also do.


http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3047
HD Video Decode Quality and Performance Summer '07
AMD and NVIDIA have recently released hardware and drivers that raise the bar on HD video quality and performance. Here's how things stack up.
July 23, 2007, 62 comments

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2977&p=1
NVIDIA GeForce 8600: Full H.264 Decode Acceleration
Date: April 27th, 2007
Topic: Video Card
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi


One concern with any such actively cooled card may be whether the fan is too noisy
for you, though I suspect that it'd be OK during video playback, and you could use a
utility program to decrease thefan speed to a level that's quieter and still maintains good card / PC temperatures.

I remember seeing an article recently that went into more detail about the video
quality performance for various card models for HDTV playback. I'll see if I can dig
up that link. But it certainly seems to get good reviews for HTPC use in the recent
AT article reviews I listed.
 
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