good card for the money?

[epic]

well i got like a $200 budget and was looking at this card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133204) and wanted to know if it was good enough for the price of it

[jizzf0rjosh]

eVGA 8600GT 512MB, GPU is 100MHz faster and the Memory clock is 540MHz higher than that PNY you linked and its cheaper. They've got a great lifetime warranty plus you can trade it in towards the purchase of new card within the first 3 months through them.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130286

Personally I'd just wait, but seeing as you have integrated, get on that card NOW

[Winters]

8800 or bust. I've seen 8800GT's in the $217 area.

[jizzf0rjosh]

8800 or bust. I've seen 8800GT's in the $217 area.

Yeah theres an eVGA 8800GT for $214.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130314
Out of stock right now though

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814122044
Leadtek for same price, but not factory overclocked

[Negative!]

i have an 8800 GT now, wow buy one.

[epic]

well i was reading see if the GeForce 9000 series was gonna be released soon, but no word yet. so im thinking if i have enough money i will get the 8800 but its probably gonna end up buying the 8600

[Drunk Rifle]

I went with the 3870 ati. I like ati for some reason they never seem to disappoint me.

[Negative!]

i got dissapointed by ati.... now nvidea is the way to go for me

[leachyboy2001]

Agreed.

[Papa]

ati worked good when it worked.... never had a problem with nivdia cards.. 8800gts ftw... when the 9000s come out 8800s will drop... id wait a lil if u can...

[garmonbozia]

ati worked good when it worked.... never had a problem with nivdia cards.. 8800gts ftw... when the 9000s come out 8800s will drop... id wait a lil if u can...

I doubt the 9's are coming out any time soon, are they?? The 8 series isn't old by any stretch...

[Papa]

Nvidia is ready for its next-generation GPU launch. According to sources at graphics card makers, the company plans to launch its GeForce 9 series GPU after the Lunar New Year in February.
The first chip to rollout of in GeForce 9 family will be the D9E, a high-end product that adopts 65nm manufacturing. The new product will also support DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1, revealed the sources.
In addition to the D9E, Nvidia will roll out a mid-range GeForce 9 family product named D9P in June 2008. The new GPU will adopt 55nm processing, the sources pointed out.


from digitaltimes.com.... eh.. some sites are saying spring... some are saying Feb.

[epic]

yea the problem with a 9000 series now is there is still no real big competition with the 8800. so why release when they can make money of the 8800 and thers for longer then realease the 9000 when another card comes out that is somewhat competition

[Pat!]

I have been looking at some 8600 and 8800 so far it seems that 8800GT is worth the money but if you are on a budget, 8600GT can be found really cheap. You could also sli two of those and get some amazing results. Use pricewatch.com and zipzoomfly for good sales.

[Crono/HBK]

8600 will run any top game fine. If your on a budget just get it if not get 8800 =p

[epic]

well i just ordered the 8600 GTS 512MB off of newegg. should be in hopefully monday

[Papa]

well i just ordered the 8600 GTS 512MB off of newegg. should be in hopefully monday

I basically got my bro the same thing for xmas.. its a good card for the cash.... so he would stop bitching about how he cant play DOD cause his pc sucks, he got a new pc too...

usually intel, being the cocks they are, release chips they have already developed long before.. when AMD decides to release their latest and greatest. They did it around July 23rd... they slash their prices and release their latest products right before AMD... crushing AMDs release.... lol ... maybe ATI is going to be releasing a new card soon.. i dont follow it much...

[epic]

well just got my new computer.

Amd Athlon X2 Dual-Core 4400+ 2.29GHz
320GB Hard drive
3GB RAM

but still intergrated video card until my 8600GTS 512MB comes in

[Negative!]

hope you like your new pc, i got mine running qbout a week ago, from 8fps to 120fps, i was playing dods nonestop, perhaps you will too.

[jizzf0rjosh]

I basically got my bro the same thing for xmas.. its a good card for the cash.... so he would stop bitching about how he cant play DOD cause his pc sucks, he got a new pc too...

usually intel, being the cocks they are, release chips they have already developed long before.. when AMD decides to release their latest and greatest. They did it around July 23rd... they slash their prices and release their latest products right before AMD... crushing AMDs release.... lol ... maybe ATI is going to be releasing a new card soon.. i dont follow it much...

Not Intel's fault that AMD's chips aren't the best anymore. Its a business and they run it as such, if they can steal thunder then do it.

In other news (slightly old) Intel postponed releasing their new processors because AMD's next line up can't compare to it, and releasing now would steal sells away from their own current gen Intel chips

[Negative!]

AMD used to be good (i think) but the q6600 is godly for its price :D

[epic]

well jsut went to newegg and its on step 5 which means its been shipped

[epic]

YES! my 8600 finally arrived. hopefully i my power suply if good enough for it. had to use a splitter it came with becuase mine one had one power cable =/ but w/e happy its here

[Negative!]

hope it runs smooth.

[epic]

its running hot atm so gonna try to increase the fan speed to see if i can cool it down. running about 66 C while idle

[Negative!]

ouch, that *C?

[scruffman]

the 8000 series run fucking hot dude, my 8800gts is about the same.

[jizzf0rjosh]

its running hot atm so gonna try to increase the fan speed to see if i can cool it down. running about 66 C while idle

Sounds like poor airflow in the case

[Negative!]

as far as i can tell, my 8800GT is running around 35*c my cpu is at 27*c

[epic]

well i added a big fan( a real fan for like a room) and opened the side of the computer and its running about 52*C idle