Geforce 8600gts and lower out tomorrow?

It wouldn't surprise me. ZipZoomFly already has MSI 8600GTS' in stock and on sale. The same goes fro some Best Buys. It could be entirely possible.

It really is too bad they dropped the 8600Ultra. It was supposed to have a 256-bit bus and would have been a real mid-range screamer. As it stands now, just about all they have going for them is DX10 support. And, IMO, that isn't a selling point if the card won't be able to use the new graphics at playable frame rates.

The 8600's are indeed on sale now. They are about $250 at the local Best Buy, so I'm waiting for ATI's cards to come out.

Yeah, what I am hoping for is a price cut on the 8800 640 meg so I can finally afford one.

Yeah and it seems that's the only thing it's good at compared to a GF7900GTX, 3Dmark.

In actual gameplay early leaked benchies have been showing it lackluster.

If I were anyone considering one of these, I'd wait for in depth tests from the likes of Xbit Labs, TechReport, BitTech and [H]ard|OCP.

I have a feeling that the 8600GTS is going to struggle aganst it's sub $250 rivals and FPS/$ will be relatively low. And for DX10, I'd say spend the slight extra money for a GTS-320 instead.

The GF8600GTS needs to be well below $200.

PS, I voted 'dissapoint' because I like seeing severed heads, dunno why, but they're cool.

scratch that, it was earlier today, but prices were raised again

hey guys, check out these benchies 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)


http://www.vtr-hardware.com/articles/a9823_0.html

all in gibberish though, but the info is there

Eh, estie de tête carrée! It's not gibberish you provincial B00B !

Anywhoo, kind proves the point, the only game(s) the $250 GTS does well in compared to the $120 X1950GT is the nV-centric Quake 4 and Splinter Cell, everything else is equal or better on the X1950GT.

Not a compeling reason to spend twice as much money! 8O

I suspect we'll see the GTS come down to mid $150-170 very shortly.

I have a feeling something similar will eventually come (although likely GF8700 knowing nV's naming strategy in the past), and it will be like ATi's X1650XT a much later after thought once they realize the dog they had on their hands in the X1600 compared to what was expected, and then the competition of the GF7600.

IMO a GF8600U/GF8700 would come late this year at best IMO, like an Xmas product. Just my feeling about it.

Nothing solid on either the GF8800U or GF8900.

I suspect there's something in the wings, but I also suspect that nV are waiting until the R600 launches to decide whether or not what they have waiting next is worthy of being the GF8900 or if they'll skip it and go to something else. alot depends on the XTX IMO, and once that shows in all it's finery then nV will pick it's counter product, and based on yields, and timing, etc pick it's launch date. At this point I'd say not even nV knows for sure.

All I wold recomend is to wait to see what comes out next week and then decide on that, with the idea that any nearterm refresh from nV add ~10-15% to the performance of the GTX, and likely no GTS refresh, just a drop in prices of all 3 cards.

That's just a guess on my part, but I don't expect a major refresh near term. I suspect whatever comes soon will be only a mild boost, and then they decide how big to make the next leap (more = more time IMO).