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Old Oct 29, 2007, 09:49 AM   #1
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DH Review: Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT's (Asus, MSI, XFX, Zotac)
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Today we have not one, but four new 8800GT's in our test labs from some of the leading manufacturer's. We will be giving the card a thorough analysis in all the leading DX9 and DX10 games, including Crysis.

The big question on everyones lips? Is the 8800GT the new class leader as the best "bang for buck"?

Read our review and find out.
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Nicely done. Almost certainly my next upgrade (though I doubt Crysis was tested at 1280x786 res )

This is the mid-range card that was MIA for a year now. And just imagine the revised GTS will be even faster (@around USD300, I anticipate).
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Old Oct 29, 2007, 10:35 AM   #3
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What a card from nvidia ! im going to order the Zotac card after reading that, what a bargain.

Also major kudos to DH, the Veridian and Zardon reviews are amazing, I read about them on OCUK forums when I went to buy a processor and ive bookmarked the home page of DH. Great informative reviews without being boring, and they look like a magazine. Lovely work guys, thank you !
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great review DH. all I needed to know. Where the hell are AMD lately ?!

I wish we had some competiting AMD/ATI parts, fingers crossed they do a lot more in 2008.
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Impressive cards! HardOCP has learned though that the 8800gts 640 will be relaunched 112 shader processors, making it faster then gt....
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This is the mid-range card that was MIA for a year now. And just imagine the revised GTS will be even faster (@around USD300, I anticipate).
I see an EVGA 8800GTS Ssc in stock for $410.
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I wonder if that will be a bios upgrade or will it require new silicone
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I see an EVGA 8800GTS Ssc in stock for $410.
The revised one should be nowhere to be seen yet
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The revised one should be nowhere to be seen yet
Nevertheless, this card is currently in stock here.

edit: To attempt to stay vaguely on topic, the card looks nice. The price might actually tempt me to pick one up if I get any recent games to play.
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Why are we talking about a pretty normal overclocked GTS in the GT review thread? Apart from anything else the GTS is more expensive which means its not in the same class as the GT...

... of course you will get more performance if you pay more...
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Why are we talking about a pretty normal overclocked GTS in the GT review thread? Apart from anything else the GTS is more expensive which means its not in the same class as the GT...

... of course you will get more performance if you pay more...
We're talking about new stuff. I was just pointing out that even if 8800GT is absolutely brilliant, something even faster is in the making. And hoping it will still be reasonably price.

Anyway, I want a 8800GT, even if I'm not going to use DX10 anytime soon. Of course, I expect nvidia to quickly come up with Linux drivers, too, as usual.
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Guys, about the temps, 90C stock?
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Guys, about the temps, 90C stock?
Worth mentioning that cooling solutions for other 8800 cards don't fit on the 8800 GT, I believe that coolers for the 7900 line fit though.
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Those temps are insane! You can add 5-10 degrees to that for the average persons case and that would be an unacceptable 100 degrees load.

Maybe using Rivatuner to manually set the fan to 90% or higher would help.
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Sure tempting to do an SLI config...to bad I hate non-Intel chipsets.
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another great review, thx guys!
that temp could be a problem for sli setups though. any way for us to get measurement on the differnce in case & cpu(if any) temp with these cards?
great bang for the $$ anyway you look at it.
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great review, but how does it compare to a 640MB 8800GTS card? that's what i was really interested in seeing.
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great review, but how does it compare to a 640MB 8800GTS card? that's what i was really interested in seeing.
I second that.
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great review, but how does it compare to a 640MB 8800GTS card? that's what i was really interested in seeing.
We can address that later. We did this review in 48 hours over the weekend (with very little sleep!) so were limited in the time we had to use the cards we needed.
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We can address that later. We did this review in 48 hours over the weekend (with very little sleep!) so were limited in the time we had to use the cards we needed.
alrighty. as long as a review comparing the 640MB 8800GTS and the 512MB 8800GT is in the near future, it's all gravy then .
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