GeForce 8800GT Best Prices / In-Stock Listing

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slightlyhuman

slightlyhuman

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Originally posted by: math20
Originally posted by: DerKaiser
Just got my new 10/12% coupon in the mail from Best Buy and they have the 8800GT in stock at my local BB... but sadly, I can't use the coupon until the 16th.
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Do you have a scan of that coupon? :)
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pretty sure that coupon is over:(
 
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etrin

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gibster lots of people are going to aftermarket on the cooler.
Seems that it is marginal and if you want less noise and more cooling you will have to go aftermarket.

 
gibster

gibster

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Originally posted by: etrin
gibster lots of people are going to aftermarket on the cooler.
Seems that it is marginal and if you want less noise and more cooling you will have to go aftermarket.
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Yeah, I saw some people getting dramatically lower temps with better coolers, no surprises there. I would hate to have to go to 2 slot cooling solution though, I like my 1 slot card ;)
 
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PingSpike

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I read a few people had good luck just removing the cooler cleaning the thermal goop and reinstalling. I guess at least some cards came with a metric shit ton of thermal paste all over them which hindered cooling. They had to be careful to save the memory pads though because the cooler isn't flush to those chips and needs them for heat transfer.
 
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Ewiz is pretty good in my experience. I'd bought my first order from them back when they were called knowledgewave or something like that, which was probably like 5 years ago now. I think I had a bad item in that and they refunded or replaced it without incident. They changed to ewiz a little while later. I've been happy with all the orders I've played with them since. They're slower then the egg but nothing terrible, they're just a smaller company I think. Their website has improved a lot.
 
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zetachi

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Originally posted by: Zulu342
Call Best Buy to check availability. It showed unavailable in all stores in NYC but when I called and had them go through their system, they located some.
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Where in NYC? I just came back from the one on 5th and 45th and they don't even have a label on the shelf :(
 
child of wonder

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Just got my shipping confirmation from ncixus.com for my 8800GT SC! It'll be here tomorrow! And I've got to work from 8am-9pm. DAMN!!!
 
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Cuhulainn

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Or wait a little while and get two 8800GT's.

Stop paying these prices, people! They won't lower them until people stop paying!

Hold out for MSRP, at least!
 
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LOUISSSSS

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u guys think its a bad idea to buy one @ retail price + tax from BB and then return it then rebuy it with the 12% off coupon from BB on the 16th?
 
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jeffjones66

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On the cooling issue, my experience thus far (I got the BFG 8800GT OC from BB):

Stock HSF, mine has been idling around 58C, with the fan at 29% (default). When I game, I've been manually turning the fan up to 85%, using Ntune, and have been around only 65C, but I have also exited a game, immediately checked and seen it in the upper 50's. Not bad at all.

on overclocking: my BFG OC came stock at 625/1800, and I've ran it in Crysis at 650/1900 for over an hour without a problem.
 
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Originally posted by: child of wonder
Just got my shipping confirmation from ncixus.com for my 8800GT SC! It'll be here tomorrow! And I've got to work from 8am-9pm. DAMN!!!
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:( Man...I wonder if I'll ever get mine from them. I ordered on release day too! I'll stick with it since the price is just too good (pre-low supply price! yay). They seem to be going by an order number queue so hopefully my order will be up soon.
 
slightlyhuman

slightlyhuman

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Originally posted by: jeffjones66
On the cooling issue, my experience thus far (I got the BFG 8800GT OC from BB):

Stock HSF, mine has been idling around 58C, with the fan at 29% (default). When I game, I've been manually turning the fan up to 85%, using Ntune, and have been around only 65C, but I have also exited a game, immediately checked and seen it in the upper 50's. Not bad at all.

on overclocking: my BFG OC came stock at 625/1800, and I've ran it in Crysis at 650/1900 for over an hour without a problem.
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my bfg from bb is running happily at 700/2000
 
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jeffjones66

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Originally posted by: DP

my bfg from bb is running happily at 700/2000
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I'll give that a shot. Are you getting decent temps?


edit: tried 700/2000, unfortunately, I got large artifacts in Crysis.
 
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imported_docsparky

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I'm hoping that the two new cards from ATI will take some of the pressure off of the 8800 GT. If ATI has the volume up and price down, then we should see the 8800 GT start coming down soon. It looks like ATI has a nice card in the 3870, but I still want the 8800GT.
 
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MadScientist

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I thought this was a "Geforce 8800 GT Best Price / In-Stock Listing" thread. It keeps getting bumped up by posts that should be in the Video Cards and Graphics category. Let's try to stay on topic.
 
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