8800ultra benchies

Expected. The Higher clocks will of course bring more performance. I see this card selling for 50-70$ more than the 8800GTX just for the higher clocks.

Simply if you got the money to blow to say "i have SLI'ed 8800's ULTRAs"
then by all means do so. The rest of use will use the Plain ole 8800GTX/GTS and OC those for the price OF NOTHING.

Haha, the Ultra is a waste of money.

Anyway can overclock their GTX to 612Mhz without a single problem.

ROFL 8)

what a complete waste of space, they aren't Ultra benchmarks, they're "we overclocked a GTX to what we think the Ultra will be at"

granted, if the specs being bandied about for Ultra are correct then Ultra itself is a complete waste of space anyway, but even so, must have been a slow day in the office for these guys to waste their time and webhosting on such tripe

the card is projected to be $999 at release, basically the card is a status symbol


what a waste of money, just buy a gtx and OC it

and in case you are wondering, they did OC the shaders

Sheesh, that card is the biggest waste of $999 that I've seen in quite a while. I feel a great amount of pity for anyone stupid enough to buy that card, but I'm sure some of the filthy rich will pick it up.

"Yawn"

Wait a minute, nvidia expects people to pay $1k for that? No way are they going to get anyone with a half a brain to do that. And will it have a better cooler? I can definitely forsee heat issues too.

IMO, people are far better off building a chiller and a custom case for it then wasting money on 8800ultra, but that's me. I would go for an antec p190 with a single gtx and oc that, so you have an awesome case with plenty of expansion room **cough cough**internal chiller**/cough cough**, I would be far happier with my chip and cpu at -30c oc'd to the max then one powerful card, of course, plenty of people build their own custom cases for this purpose, but the p190 comes with a dual psu setup which is one reason why I mentioned it.

Exactly what I'm thinking, at least the r600xtx is 65nm for lower power consumption AND it should perform very well in dx10. Quite frankly, I think that if you simply oc'd the shader clock from 750mhz to a more comparable 1ghz to the least, or the 1.35ghz/1.55ghz the gtx/ultra have, the r600 would be pwning in both dx9 and dx10, gonna check that out at xs once people start ocing the hell out of the card when crysis comes out

The 8800 Ultra is just a (marketing) joke.

Other than clocks, there is nothing new. Could it be that nVIDIA doesn't need anything more to hold the performance crown? :?

I'm still waiting to see the R600 official performance numbers. No more FUD.
IF it performs like we have seen, then AMD is facing a VERY rough future.
We'll wait and see.

But they won't be by that much though, at the lowest I'm assuming $900, I mean bfg's oc waterblock gtx already costs over $900 already. And this expensive heater better come with better cooling than the stock gtx, otherwise I don't see anyone beyond the "I have $12k to spend because I have too much money so I'll just buy whatever costs the most" n00bs buying it

I think so, but the whole point about it will be what test gets you the crown? Top 3Dmk06 score?

Like before both AMD and nV will claim to have the #1 top card based on XYZ benchmark that shows them favourably.

I think it's guaranteed that both will be king in their own mind/PR, the question is what the web concensus becomes.

I expect the street prices to be lower.

I heard the street prices for you were cheap too.
Depends on what.

Cores are higher memory is the only thing slower, but they are the same memory chips, they're just over volted in the Ultra (you can volt mod the GTXs to match).

:?:

In my opinion this cards a total waste of time.

All that extra mula for what, an extra 4fps in 2142, an extra 2 fps in Call of Juarez.

Unless theres a 15-20 or so fps difference, a new cards really not worth buying.

Saving money and waiting for the DX10.1 cards whenever they are released makes far more sense.