Who else thinks the 8800GT sucks?

[deerhunter716]

The 8800GT is a DAMN GOOD card. I downgraded from a GTX to a GT (if you want to call it a downgrade, lol) and have not experienced any decrease in performance that I personally can see at all while gaming at 1920x1200 on my 27" monitor. The key word is I cannot see to the physical eye any difference at all. Sure some benchmarks may state otherwise -- but while gaming in COD4 and the Crysis demo I see no drop at all.

 

[piasabird]

There is always SLI!

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: jjj807
the 8800gt is doing what the radeon 9700pro did back in the day.

9700pro wasn't a refresh and it had performance crown for 2 whole generations. If anything 8800gtx is more like 9700pro but 2x the price. :wine: 8800gt will surely get eaten alive when the new high end cards get here which isn't too far off.

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: Azn
9700pro wasn't a refresh and it had performance crown for 2 whole generations. If anything 8800gtx is more like 9700pro but 2x the price. :wine: 8800gt will surely get eaten alive when the new high end cards get here which isn't too far off.

At what cost?

Of course there are upgrades "just around the corner" but what I've found is that these upgrades are priced out of the budget of many people, or at least my budget.

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: Azn

Originally posted by: jjj807
the 8800gt is doing what the radeon 9700pro did back in the day.

9700pro wasn't a refresh and it had performance crown for 2 whole generations. If anything 8800gtx is more like 9700pro but 2x the price. :wine: 8800gt will surely get eaten alive when the new high end cards get here which isn't too far off.

so what was the first card to take the crown from the 9700 pro? and yes i do agree with you from the standpoint that the 8800gt does not take the crown today, but it does the same thing to the companies that the launch of the 9700 pro did back then. it just throws ati deeper into the muck than nvidia whereas in the past it was the Geforce fx that was crap. From a marketing standpoint its quite similar. Ati's next few product releases will net less money due to the existence of the 8800gtx gts and gt, just like the dozen releases that nvidia made after the 9700pro.

 

[MrUniq]

it was only a matter of time before these companies switched to dx10 performance as the determining factor for these card prices...the 8800GT is a good start for acceptible performance like the 9800pro was(after a period). But yea..the next generation and their refreshes should perform significantly better.