8800 Ultra Already Available?

Not worth it to pay that kind of money for an overclocked GTX with a fancy fan.

Yeah but if it manages to cool better then it might make it a little more worth while, especially if you don't care about money

7800gtx512 take two then. people were daft the first time to buy that and they will be daft to buy this.

I was going to buy one ... but then I realized the "rich uncle" who had died and left me all his millions was really just a phishing scam.

At least this thing came to market for $170 below the rumored price, this may bode well for reasonable pricing on the new ATI cards. Then again, the ATI cards may be forcing the nV cards' prices down. Either way, I win.

It is mighty convenient that the EVGA superclocked and ACS3 GTXs went out of stock right as this thing arrived...

At least the 7800GTX 512MB was a considerable boost in clockspeed, where the 8800GTX is well within spitting distance of this card.

At that price, forget it.

Oc the ultra? You've gotta be kidding me, I highly doubt the memory will go much farther even on water, and the core perhaps will reah around 650mhz tops unless you want to drain another few hundred on water. I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but I personally would rather take an r600 and a 24" monitor. Since the r600 has a special dongle for hdmi, that means for any hdmi 24", guaranteed high def or at least excellent picture, plus I can't wait to see the looks on the 8800ultra's buyers faces when they compare dx10 performance, something just kinda tells me the 320shaders might just come in handy there in dx10, where software can actually use all of them, unlike dx9. But since I don't have near that kind of money to randomly drain, i will stop talking now and just get back to work on planning my phase change

I knew I was going to get flamed for it, everyone here has a different opinion, some people keep saying the r600 sux, while others say wait to see what it can really do, and quite frankly, I'm seriously hoping for amd's sake the r600 has some true potential to unleash, and either way, I like the integrated sound idea and have always wanted a 24"

So that means if you get lucky, you could be getting some very nice memory for your ultra, but didn't fudzilla say that it still doesn't provide as much bandwidth as the r600 though?

I wonder how far the gddr4 chips in the xtx will go, do you have any thoughts on those?

What a bargain!

I'm a bargain hunter and haven't spent over $350 on a card for myself.

$350 R600XT I'm hoping.

$350, yes, that would be very nice. Though I personally would wait for the xtx to drop in price because of power consumption, though the performance won't be much different. then again, I'm broke, and am pooling up money to build something special right now, so an r600 for ali is out of the question

Is that before or after Bill sends you $5.00 for everyone you forwarded that e-mail to.

Bah, a stock 8800gtx is definitely faster than an x1950xtx, but don't go around spreading fud that it's twice as fast, that's just bullshit, I can see 1.5times working though

Here in Europe they have a price range of $850-1050...
...which is a lot

Perhaps, but I would only get the ultra if you 100% guaranteed to recieve the higher grade memory, I would take a pair of gtx(s) over a single ultra anyday, or a single gtx with a modded phase change/chiller, that would work very nicely too