Warm? 8600gts w/hdmi output and cable 104.99AR +free ship

[BrokenArrow]

Sounds like a pretty warm deal since the card has a built in HDMI connector and comes with the HDMI cable.

LINK

What do you think? HTPC for someone who wants to play games too? Fan might be a little loud for some though.

 

[zig3695]

bah! just bought a 2600pro for my htpc. oh well, i paid half that after rebates and i dont think the 2600pro is less then half as fast....

 

[hans007]

hot deal! we know from best buy that an hdmi cable is a $60 retail value.

so this is like $45 AR!

 

[nyker96]

why the HDMI cable so expensive?

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: nyker96
why the HDMI cable so expensive?

Conspiracies and marketing. It's nothing but copper; and quality of the cable does not matter because this is a digital link (0 or 1) we're talking about and the EMI from the copper wires is nowhere near strong enough to flip a bit in another copper wire. So basically, a $5 cable that you built yourself would work just as well (as long as your solder connections are good) as a $200 cable.

 

[cubeless]

i got one of these a week ago for $119 for a linux box... i am having trouble getting the hdmi to output sound... there's a loopback cable for the sound (spdif to vid card), and i get sound out of the spdif, but hook it into the vid and no sound... the disk that comes with the board has no manual or driver on it... ther driver install ahs a link sto nvidia's web site!!!

the good thing is that, when direct hooking it up to my mitsu with hdmo, there's no lag like when i hook up the 8800gts via a dvi-hdmi adapter...

 

[zig3695]

is there lag with all dvi-hdmi adapters?

 

[cubeless]

i only ran with 8800gt...

 

[NamelessMC]

HDMI cables are a joke. Wanna know what the cost of them is? Like if you worked at a retail store and got them at cost?

I can get a 18 feet signal shielded gold plated MONSTER HDMI cable for like $20. They're like $150 retail lol.

How do these cards fare against 3850's?

 

[v8envy]

In some games they could approach half the performance of a 3850. Most of the time the 3850 will be much much much faster though.

Compare the specs:

http://www.gpureview.com/show_...hp?card1=546&card2=512

Still, half the price for half the performance. A good deal IMO.