GeForce 8800GTX and 8800GTS headed your way

Forgive me if it's been posted already, a little scoop on the retail G80 cards.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4441

Hard launch second week of November.

8800GTX - 575MHz core, 768MB 900MHz GDDR3, 384-bit mem interface, 128 Unified Shaders clocked at 1350MHz.

8800GTS - 500MHz core, 640MB 900MHz GDDR3, 320-bit mem interface, 96 unified shaders clocked at 1200MHz.

Doesn't matter as everyone will be using the betas released shortly afterwards.

Nope, but I'd guestimate probably a little out of my range for the GTS and alot out of my range for the GTX.

so any of you guys going to buy them when or shortly after
they come out? or wait til say feb or march?

i have been debating on buying a dual core to replace my s939 3700
and upgrading to a 78 (heyyou27 is probably going to sell his two)
i talked to him about it but decided to maybee go with a new 79 series
but now i am thinking my 68gt,s will work til spring of next year.

i guess ill wait til then. on the gpu,s
now on the s939 cpu,s i will have to buy one soon before they go back
up in price.

lol yeah you will probably need a current sli supported psu
to power one g80 card

Well with a bit of luck quad SLI on these things might get you an okay frame right on oblivion at max settings. Still, i'm quite happy with my present expensive system E6600, X1900XT etc, once i've completed my mission on silencing it then i might conisder an R600 - as for the G80s, i can't ever see me owning one of them unless their performance is amazingly good.

yeah with both of them being dx10 compliant
who knows how close performance wise they will be
or how hot and power hungry

No, not expected until January or February next year.
http://www.chilehardware.com/modul [...] =0&thold=0

well one thing to consider is ati will probably be better prepared
for dx10 with a later release as m.s. will be releasing vista
which will have dx10 around that time

nvidia hopefully will have driver updates for the early launch of
the g80.

or nvidia may come out with a whole new line of cards around
the time of vista and dx10 launch.
which would kinda suck for anyone who buys the g80 right when they come out next month.

edit; did this post make any sense lol

Being the SLI addict I am, I'll be stepping up to 8800GTs or GTXs in December of this year.

Considering I just got two eVGA 7900 GTO's, I'm planning on using the step up program for two 8800 GTS's. After step up, it should come to about 400 clams I'm guessing. Building a new PC around that time so...what the hey.

I should be fine with my OCZ GamerXstream 700W. I'm betting the "recommended 800W" for SLI applies to the higher end of the spectrum (i.e. 2x 8800 GTX's). This was the case when nVid released specs on the 7800 series way back when anyways - they quoted a recommended spec of 600W for those cards.

Well to a certain extent, more power generally = more heat. Regardless, im interested to see when they actually are going to put it on a 65nm die. Do you have any clue as to when that may be?

No "love" for SLI although it has treated me well and not caused and headaches for me *knocks on wood, throws salt over shoulder, make the sign of the cross*

I really wanted to go ATI in this build, but timing is everything. i.e. do I spend money on two cards soon or piddle it away on beer and women until R600 comes out, and then not be able to buy anything? I consider it "preemtive negotiation" with myself.

Enermax Galaxy. Every review i could find on it gave it a must buy. It has 5 12+ rails at 17a and it weighs 10 lbs so it sounds like it's high quality and should do the job with no problems.

Yeah i've had good experiences with enermax. So you should be in the clear.

I've used Enermax PSUs in systems in the past and have never had a problem with them. It better be good though for $360.

Sounds Sweet!

And i'm quite sure the R600 is going to do very well. The predeccesor was very good, so good in fact that it makes me angry i got my 7800gt and didnt just hold out for an x1900xt. Oh well. . . Its going to be an interesting few months when these new cards are released and vista comes out.

You said power wasnt a concern for you and heat was, but the two are really hand in hand. I figured i would point that out.

True. Also power consuption. Not everyone can get a $500 card with a $200 PSU. But I don't think it's really a big issue though.

Yep, heat is going to be a issue, 800watt to 1000 watt, start cutting holes in the psu and case, add 14-120mm fans, god dam will the psu get hot. I guess my blower box dont seem to be that bad of a thing. I can see it now. Talking about migrating electrons, holyee, the electrons will be bouncing around like wusy giving advice about cooling.

1000 watts/120 volts = 8.3amps holyee thats if my conversion table is correct wusy can help here or 1000w/12V=83amps holyee 83 amps on the 12volt rail. Wow going to upgrade my power outside to 100amp service.

Never would have guessed....