Originally posted by: Belles Toaster
Lets all get a sense of reality here. It has always been in video cards that a perceived
super dupper card will draw out the big bucks even though a reality check would point
out only a few frames higher. My interest is the dual slot cooler. Too bad we are all
being hosed for the this privilege. I have read that the pcb of the 8800GT is in fact
common to 7600 series. (this means that the manufacturers are really cheap)That an existing arctic cooler works. So buy a single slot card and spend another $50 to life insure it when all the manufacturer had to do was to make a tool-up decision to add a second slot ( a huge economy of scale i.e. less than a couple of bucks and perhaps all copper heatsinks! ) As for Future Shock, in a month this card will be $ 100 off and again so every three weeks thereafter. By the way,they advertise all nvidia cards from 7300 to the 7800gs
as " Superclocked "!
No it means manufacturers have cost in mind first. IF the 8800GT can get away with using a similar PCB to the 7600GT, it's smart because they will save costs.
It's not that shocking either, since the 8800GT is a much lower power consuming part with a 65nm node compared to mid-high end offering of the past.
My HD 3850 looks a lot like a longer, beefier X1950 or X1650XT. ATI can also get away with cheaping out on PCB/cooling on the HD38xx series due to 55nm.
You don't WANT massive PCB's built for transporting hundreds of watts to GPU's. It's simply a necessity sometimes, but ideally you want low power and high performance, which both the 8800GT and HD38xx series provide.
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