8800 What? For how much you say? $999?

[Atty]

NVIDIA has one more hurrah on the "G80" processor

Shortly after the mid-range GeForce 8000-series launch (http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6825), NVIDIA has another trick up its sleeve: the GeForce 8800 Ultra.

Roadmaps provided by NVIDIA reveal the 8800 Ultra will launch on May 1 with a price point of $999. The company would not reveal further specifications about the card, other than it is based on the same G80 core found in the GeForce 8800 GTX.

The $999 price point suggests the 8800 Ultra may actually be two 8800-series cards in one package. NVIDIA launched the multi-PCB initiative GeForce 7950 GX2 last year as the last high-end push on the GeForce 7000-series GPU.

The GeForce 7950 GX2 was actually two GeForce 7900 GT processors on two PCBs in an SLI configuration. Running two of these cards in a PC was essentially the same as running Quad-SLI.

NVIDIA likely added the card to its roadmaps to combat the upcoming Radeon X2900-family GPUs (http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6138). The ATI R600 GPU was scheduled to launch in late March, but soon after the company canceled its launch events and moved the official date into Q2 2007.1 Grand...

[Limited]

DAMN thats gonna be like £2,500 here. sweet mother of god wow...

[flibitijibibo]

Hm. From what I see, its a DX10 version of the 7950 GX2. Wish I hadn't splurged on the 7950...

[legionaire45]

From what I see I miss the days of sub $400 highest end video cards.

[flibitijibibo]

Heh, I remember those days....

"All new video card with 32 MB of VRAM! Only $400!"

[Zeph]

All new cards are expensive when they first come out. It allows the enthusiasts to blow their money while the company can get away with it because of aggregate demand.

[flibitijibibo]

All new cards are expensive when they first come out. It allows the enthusiasts to blow their money while the company can get away with it because of aggregate demand.



*Cries* It's true, it's all true! T_T

[legionaire45]

All new cards are expensive when they first come out. It allows the enthusiasts to blow their money while the company can get away with it because of aggregate demand.
yes, but this is close to a doubling in price. I don't see too many people (even hardcore enthusiasts) able to shell out that much on a single video card. I can understand for those who want the power of SLI in a single x16 slot (if it is indeed dual 8800 cores) but this draws an extreme line in cost, power consumption and heat. Heh, if you have the money to blow, by all means buy the thing. I'd rather spend it on a faster CPU, ram and another 8800 GTX when the prices dump through the floor.

[Spnkr]

Can you Quad SLI these? That would be like having... eight 8800s o.0. Oblivion will be nothing more than Minesweeper to them!

[Zeph]

Can you Quad SLI these? That would be like having... eight 8800s o.0. Oblivion will be nothing more than Minesweeper to them!

They should be able to run in Quad SLI once AMD rolls out more 4x4 solutions, assuming there's an extended atx motherboard housing them. You wouldn't be able to fit much of anything else and cooling would be a bitch. You might even need dual power supplies. Mega tasking needs mega power. Throwing four dual 8800s in along with it would be outlandish.

[Rosco]

They should be able to run in Quad SLI once AMD rolls out more 4x4 solutions, assuming there's an extended atx motherboard housing them. You wouldn't be able to fit much of anything else and cooling would be a bitch. You might even need dual power supplies. Mega tasking needs mega power. Throwing four dual 8800s in along with it would be outlandish.


And yet people use these monster machines to play halo or whatever, and people like xet decide to lock frames at 30...:downsgun:

[Xetsuei]

D:

[Varmint260]

Jesus... I just want something that'll even play H2V at 30FPS! Remember, I've got low standards; I play HaloPC at 20FPS (that's on a good day, lol!). With one of these, I might be able to play at some decent FPS. Hey, but isn't H2V having more work done on it, so it should be a better port than Halo1? Hope so. I will NEVER have the loot to put one of these in my computer unless they go down to two hunnerd bucks. Ain't happening.

As for Quad SLI, yeah... I think that would be one way to cause your computer to melt into a puddle of components without a couple water cooling systems lol

[Amit]

They should be able to run in Quad SLI once AMD rolls out more 4x4 solutions, assuming there's an extended atx motherboard housing them. You wouldn't be able to fit much of anything else and cooling would be a bitch. You might even need dual power supplies. Mega tasking needs mega power. Throwing four dual 8800s in along with it would be outlandish.

That would be nothing less of rape to your computer, house(power consumption), bills, bank, and life.(it's morally wrong)

[legionaire45]

That would be nothing less of rape to your computer, house(power consumption), bills, bank, and life.(it's morally wrong)

and Crisis at more then Silky smooth frames xD.

[Jelly]

Do any games currently make use of Quad SLi? Or DirectX 10?

Actually, there's probably some tech demos that do, but anyway, unless a game supports Quad SLi, you won't see a performance increase. But it will make your specs list look very nice.

[flibitijibibo]

Do any games currently make use of Quad SLi? Or DirectX 10?


No. It's just Crysis from what I see, and that isn't even out yet. In fact, I don't even think Vista uses anything from DX10. I mean, it had DX10 day 1 (duh), but I haven't really found anything on the OS that uses it...

[P-Thunder.]

DAMN thats gonna be like £2,500 here. sweet mother of god wow...

Um, actually its £500.00 = ]

[Atty]

No. It's just Crysis from what I see, and that isn't even out yet. In fact, I don't even think Vista uses anything from DX10. I mean, it had DX10 day 1 (duh), but I haven't really found anything on the OS that uses it...Crysis, Hellgate London, and a whole mess of other games (most of which I can't remember, there was a DX10 trailer featuring a few games.) They are all in development right now.

[P-Thunder.]

Speaking of directX 10, iam picking up my Geforce 8600 within the next few days.

[Techno Dude]

Just got mine, they work wonders lol.
HALO 2 HERE I COME!!

[Patrickssj6]

Image of rig?

[Atty]

Just got mine, they work wonders lol.
HALO 2 HERE I COME!!Since Halo 2 doesn't require anything the 8 Series offers (all it requires can be achieved with 7 Series cards) I don't quite understand your statement.

Oh and he can't be talking about the Ultra, Patrick, it's not released. He may be speaking of the G86/4.

[Amit]

I'm still waiting for there to be word in Canada about the nVidia cards cept 8800 series. it's all ATi over here since ATi world headquarters is in Markham, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.:p

Yo sick guys, check out what i just found: http://bestbytecomputer.com/catalogue.php?sku=841163014394

Now i never have to worry bout my X1950 Pro sucking up too much power. But the website shown there is a local store around my town so don't count on trying to find it here. You most likely will find it in other stores in the U.S. and online stores.

http://www.businessvision.net/edge/Stores/bestbytecomputer/ProductImages/thermaltake_purepower_250W.jpg

[Atty]

It's not even powerful enough to run a X2k series in CF. :lol:

[P-Thunder.]

Thats pretty weak, 200W!

[ImSpartacus]

yeah, for quad SLI, u need around 300-400 watts just for the cards, then 500-600 for the rest of the system depending on how many hdd's and such.

i wouldnt bat an eye at this PoS card. the g80 core is already a power sucking scrambled egg cooker, and eventually 4 of them in one pc is just stupid. u dont need mroe than one to get a playable fps on almost any settings as long as u keep the res down.

i will likely get a 7950gt and that will play BF2142, ET:QW, H2V, and Bioshock when they all come out.

There is no need to waste money on the early generation of cards that suck power and in general suck.

its comparable to a 6800 ultra in its day.

by the time more than 2-3 good games start coming out, there will already be a new core out that can play dx10 games and refrain from cooking u breakfast.

[Atty]

yeah, for quad SLI, u need around 300-400 watts just for the cards, then 500-600 for the rest of the system depending on how many hdd's and such.

i wouldnt bat an eye at this PoS card. the g80 core is already a power sucking scrambled egg cooker, and eventually 4 of them in one pc is just stupid. u dont need mroe than one to get a playable fps on almost any settings as long as u keep the res down.

i will likely get a 7950gt and that will play BF2142, ET:QW, H2V, and Bioshock when they all come out.

There is no need to waste money on the early generation of cards that suck power and in general suck.

its comparable to a 6800 ultra in its day.

by the time more than 2-3 good games start coming out, there will already be a new core out that can play dx10 games and refrain from cooking u breakfast.

Your post is entirely incorrect, please delete and try again. :)

[FRain]

May 1st.


Umm.

May 1.

My CENSORing birthday.

[Emmzee]

One grand? Fuck it, at least until they get about half as expensive.


Maybe.

[Atty]

They won't be one grand and it is rumored to be non existent (just like the 2900XTX), we'll see though.

[Atty]

Well the $999 price point was dismissed but here is a benchmark:


But not this time: The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra is an utter waste of money.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2979&p=1

[Xetsuei]

Go Evga.

[Aero]

I wonder how it'll overclock.

[Atty]

:x


http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=25430&stc=1&d=1178248799
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=25431&stc=1&d=1178248737It's not mine, I'm not stupid enough to waste money on two of those POSes.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=25429&stc=1&d=1178250307

[leorimolo]

holy shit, that must be a fast computer, its a overclocked rig with 2 of those freaking video cards
:drolls:

[CtrlAltDestroy]

fuck you and your computer things atty :(

[Digikid]

IMHO only a total fool would spend that much on that card when the 8900 is just around the corner.

okay I JUST saw Attys pics....you win a lottery or something Atty? HOLY Cr*P!!!!!

[Xetsuei]

He got the pix from here (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=90860).

[Digikid]

WTF???? - 9 Celsuis on his CPU temp!!?!?!?!?!?!?!

:o

[Atty]

He's got a very...well I don't want to explain it, but it's a very adequate cooling set up.