Nvidia 8600 - DX10 without breaking the bank

[mzkhadir]

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[A554SS1N]

Looking good!

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Old news?

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Old news?

It was posted on Engadget today, but the story linked says Jan 16 on Guru3d, I dont know about BearEyes.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
It was posted on Engadget today, but the story linked says Jan 16 on Guru3d, I dont know about BearEyes.

Think there was a link to it last week or before on here.

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[secretanchitman]

definitely getting the 8600 Ultra for my new build this summer. 256bit with 512MB of memory? smells like 7950GT/7900GTX/7900GTO performance with directx10!

 

[gamepad]

This smells very nice.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

8600 Ultra looks like the one to have

64 shaders, 256bit memory on a mid range card....very very nice


why buy the GT, for $30 more you get 16 more shaders, 150mhz more clock speed, 128bit more memory bus, 256mb more and faster ram.

for only $30 thats hella worth it

with any luck ill be able to score a decent second hand S939 X2 and one of these to update my brothers rig.

 

[Piano Man]

Thanks for the post. I'm definitely gonna wait for this to come out before building a new rig.

 

[agathodaimon]

I'm betting the Ultra will cost more than that.
Seems to be an awfully big price gap between the GTS and the Ultra.... HUGE gap.

 

[blatherbeard]

wow, just wow. Now i really need to get rid of this pc for Pci-e capeable rig. DAMMIT! lol

 

[otispunkmeyer]

yeah i reckon it might be more like $200

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
yeah i reckon it might be more like $200

Same here,I hate to be leery, but I don't think that it'll be that low. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
8600 Ultra looks like the one to have

64 shaders, 256bit memory on a mid range card....very very nice


why buy the GT, for $30 more you get 16 more shaders, 150mhz more clock speed, 128bit more memory bus, 256mb more and faster ram.

for only $30 thats hella worth it

with any luck ill be able to score a decent second hand S939 X2 and one of these to update my brothers rig.

N/m

 

[R3MF]

i am somewhat dubious about the 300 million transistors claim.

the 8600U has half the shaders of the 8800U, but a large proportion of any graphics die is taken up by other video functions, not just raw parallel pipelines, and the 8800U was 684 million trannies to start, without including the external chip.

i would have guessed that the 8600U would be closer to 400 million transistors, maybe even 450-500 if the integrated that external chip from the 8800U.