the unsung hero...came in very quietly:hail the 8800GS

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dunno, the 9600 was hailed as a wonderful low cost card and this beats it for the most part overall. Other than it folds like a cheap lawn chair in Crysis but I wouldn't expect to play crysis on this anyways...

For the price its quite good. I wish my Dell M1330 laptop had this instead of the 8400GS, now that sucker is slow, and it can still run Crysis in Low, just don't look very pretty.

It only folds in crysis with fsaa which no single gpu card really remains all that playable. The mem hurts it, but it does much better than the 8800GT 256MB that really tanks. I was running some crysis tests on an 8800GS last night and played a bit. 12x10 it does pretty decent.

It would be a nice mobile solution for sure.

If i was on the cheap, I'd get the 8800GS. however i'd pony up the few extra bucks for the 9600Gt because it does better with AA and AF and I like CANDY!

I believe they are equivalent, possibly favoring the 8800GS, and to finish it off the 8800GS can be had for a very affordable $110 like the guy mentioned above. If you want details warm up the ol' google engine.

It'll last as long as the games you play allow it to, basically depending on your taste it can last a day or three years.

I think they were leaning towards closer prices to keep the price the control and have the performance be the comparable variable.

Getting a 8800GT with only 256MB however is like getting a Ferrari and putting 87 Octane in it

Yes because if you get a 8800GT 256 you may as well pay the $10 to get the 512MB. There is a significant price difference between the GT and GS.

guess what...im hovering over them too.my budget doesnt stretch that far to get the GTS.anyway, which one u bought?

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/0 [...] page6.html

theyve pitted the 8800gs with the hd3850 512mb!!!what do u think of that???

thats right,i doubt they would do it as the GS is as if almost doesnt exsist

are u serious??? r u really getting one???whats ur current rig?

Hey man, they had an overclocked version of the 8800 gs, and from some reveiews I read, can't remember where exactly, but if you google it, its there, that's where I found it. But when overclocked to like 650 mhz core, I think it was hanging with and maybe beating in some things, the 9600gt. Personally, for the money, I think later I'll be buying the oc'd version.

The 8800GS does overclock decently and can beat the 9600GT. BTW lol I'm not really going to buy one, I already own a nicely OC 8800 GT with a sexy Accellero S2 cooler on it (with the turbo module fans). But If a friend had a pci-express slot open and was hard on cash but needed a nice fix I would recommend him the 88GS.

Like I said, I'll probably pick one up later for the money it's hard to argue with. Looks like it gives decent performance, and being married with a full time job and all, don't have the time for games like I used to. So seems it would be a good fit.

who me? i have a 17 samsung lcd so its just 1280x1024.back to the card,yup ive made my mind im gonna thrash my sapphire HD3850 256 for this one.but then again maybe not,ill give the sapphy to my cousin(sell it of course).hehehe

1 thing to note is that at 1280x1024, the differnce is hard to tell!

nah....that was a defective card..artifacts! lol.i just wanted a better bang for the buck

I already did a small review in my sig.

I would say they are about equal. 8800gs is usually the better raw performer than 9600gt including AF. With AA though that's where 9600gt usually wins out because of more bandwidth and extra 128mb of vram. We are talking about 5fps average here though or some ridiculous settings you can't really play with either card . Nothing to sneeze about. Either way you should be good with either card.

20-22" monitor I would go with 9600gt but would be better with a 8800gt.

19" monitor it really doesn't matter if you go with 9600gt, 3850, or 8800gs.. I would go with whatever is cheaper and right for your needs.

I even played Crysis @ very high detail on my 19" monitor using the DX9 very high detail hack. It pulls 25fps on the GPU test which is decent enough.

all right.im gonna get it at a local store.
@ marvelous, u have a point, if he?she can afford a 22'' monitor,for sure he/she want to get the 8800gt. otherwise,its just a waste!

You should get the EVGA model because they all have 1ns memory rated for 1000mhz.

The OP link has the 8800GS, HD3850 256MB and the 8800GT 256MB. With performance and current USA prices the 256MB 8800GT makes no sense. It tanks at 12x10 in some games, especially with fsaa enabled.

The only thing about this is that it's comparing the 384 MB version. I honestly wonder how the even rarer 768 MB version would have done. It's already substantially higher clocked than the 384 MB version, and is much closer, maybe even better than the 9600 GT at stock. On top of that, it can overclock even higher. Honestly, I really wish that card was put out there more.

You can easily clock the 384mb version much higher than 768mb version. Everyone should overclock these days. Even 3rd party manufacturers do it and cover on their warranty.

s the hynix 1.1 memory chips good for ocing??