Who bought an 8800?

They arent for sale yet here in Holland. And if they where, i wouldnt buy one anyway. Why buy a €600,- card while my x800gto also plays everything. And the card is just overpriced, i would never pay that amount of money just for a graphics card.

I prefer to spend 600€ for a holiday in a european city with parties and chicks, rather than on a GPU

I bought a gts. I stepped up from a x800 xt which I thought was just getting dated. I thought it was a good investment for the future, dx 10 and kills everything right now. I've always been an ATI guy so we'll see how this goes. I also only have a 19" monitor so the performance around those resolutions was just the nail. While I'm stepping up to this I'm getting a e6600 and 2 gb ram and coming from a 3700+ and 1 gb. If I had a SM 3.0 card right now I probably would have waited but whatever.

I have a friend who will probably buy one these week now that they're out. He's a stay-at-home dad who married into money... why not have the best toys if you're home all day and not paying for them yourself?

amen rodney and couger i hate you......

Yeah the 8600gt most be going to be great .

From the 6 series on the *600gt always was a verry good deal

Nope. I'm going to try to make an educated decision once I see ATI's offerings.

I bought a 8800gts on the way home from work yesterday. It rocks and is night and day faster than my highly o/c'd 7900gt. I run a matrox triplehead setup and need all the power i can get to pump out that 3840x1024 resolution. Upgrading to a kentsfield as soon as i can find one some place. I'm still on an older 3.6 P4 now so i didn't want to go with the gtx due to power reqts that this box doesn't meet. I will most likely step up to the gtx when i get my kentsfield box built.

I didn't but it, and I'm not planning to.

My plan is to get a new video card next fall, along with Vista, and more RAM, so I can enjoy DX10 games.

DX10 games will probably start showing up in the summer, so I think my plan is pretty good.

It's too f*cking big to fit in my Antec P180!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Running on a x1900xt I picked up for under $300 CAN anyway, so no hurry

Hopefully, PCI Express Gen 2 won't be out before then

Agreed! Sounds familiar... oh yea, the PS3!!! Has last gens gfx and is coming out this month. LAME!

I'm happy with my 360

Agreed!

Plus, I have an 975X chipset that supports crossfire

It's about 1 inch longer than the X1950XTX. Should fit fine.

Yea, 8900s should be out, and R600s. But 8800s will still be pretty darn good.

Could be. But current PCI-E 16X cards will work on it. It (PCI-E 2.0) should have (so I read somewhere) backwards capability.

Ordered a new rig with one in it... Should have it next week. I want to play Oblivion at 1600x1200 with all the pretties and 30fps, instead of 800x600 with none of the pretties and 15 fps (like with my 6200...)

1. Thats actually not a very long time
2. Yes, most likely
3. Yes, y front creamingly good
4. Yes, im such a sucker as well.
5. Naughty boy
6. And Yes, fair play, at least its a cheaper hobby than modding crap cars

NO

because

1) way tooooooooooooooooooo expensive
2) power-hungry
3) big as hell, will not let you plug in anything under it and may interfere with the hard drive
4) games not ready for dx10
5) runs hot in most cases

and the most important

6) if you want one, you will have to make sure you have a big case and the right power supply and if you dont, those $650 (or $450) will not stay in $650, will go over $1000!

I got a BFG 7600GT and it does and will do everything I need it to do for the next couple of years I hope. Besides if I spent that much on a video card my wife would want that much in jewelry.....so it would cost me around $1200 LOL....

Me too

Grrr... if Intel does another socket change, I'll kill the part of my brain that loves computers!

JEEZ INTEL/AMD/NVIDIA/ATI!!!! LET THE SOFTWARE CATCH UP!!!

I just got a Core 2 Duo and now Quad Core is out within four months?! 8O

*sighs* Computer technology is getting ridiculous! Before you know it, we'll have environmentalist on our backs about resources for computer parts (if the environmentalist haven't started already! 8O )

no because I use AGP! Both ways, I would never buy something like that until I got comparisons to the r600. I'm not gonna repeat my mistake with the GF 5200.....

That puts it all into perspective, really! It made me nearly laugh myself off my chair.

Only a hardcore enthusiast with money to burn (or with a credit card and no self-discipline ) would buy one of these cards as you're paying a very hefty 'early adopter' premium. Within a month or two there will be cards out that perform the same but cost half the price, run cooler & quieter and use far less power. The first iteration of every new gfx generation are always noisy, expensive power-hungry monsters.

Besides, if I told my wife that I'd spent over 300 quid on a graphics card she'd have me sectioned.

When dx10 becomes the widespread standard, ATI has a counter offer, I've seen lots benchies, and the price drops to $200, I'll buy one then, though it may not be the 8800.
There is no way I am going to pay $600 for a video card, or for that matter ever rush ahead to buy brand new technology of any kind. It's always a total waste of money.

Not buying DX 10 yet. It's too expensive and I am happy with my setup for now. Also, this purchase would also force me to buy a high end PS which would add probably another 200.00 $ to the deal. I am sure I will upgrade somewhere down the road but right now it's not the time for me.

i think that the 8800 is a poor design physically and am waiting for the next line of nvidia cards (8900)