How many GTX 280's will you buy?

I'm finding it hard to believe that someone would spend $654 on a GTX 280 Or even more money on two or three of them.

I am doing this survey just to count how many of you would shell out that kind of cash.

I agree with you. So give me that vote of "no" please.

None whatsoever.
I'm quite satisfied with my 8800GT, and probably will be for a long while.

I'm having serious doubts that many people AT ALL will be buying GTX 280s once the HD 4870 and 4870X2 come out. The probability of the 4870, thanks to having gratuitously higher memory bandwidth courtesy of GDDR5, should be quite competitive performance-wise to the GTX 260, very likely beating it; on paper it should beat it, and performance results of the 4850 imply that it does, unless there's something wrong in the RV770 that means that it would not gain much from having a lot more memory bandwidth after ALREADY seeing a tremendous boost in shader and texturing power.

And with the $280US 4870 duking it at least within range of the GTX 260, $500US for a 4870X2 would pose a real monster of an opponent for the GTX 280; there's pretty much close to zero odds that it wouldn't best the 280, and by a margin that would definitely be visible... And hence be large enough to show across the board.

Of course, had I already a G92-based card, I'd probably be fine with it now. But as it stands, my X800XT's starting to really show some rusty spots on it, so upgrades are definitely on my mind.

This coming from a guy who SLI'ed 8600GT's. Maybe you can Quad SLI 8300GT's next.

9800GTX+? well, little performance increase over the 9800GTX, yet higher power consumption and higher temps, it won't sell good in my opinion.

Nice build.

Still, if it manages to fit both "more powerful than a 4850," and "cheaper than a 4870," then it'll have a spot. Maybe a very, very tiny spot... And of course, give a superior option to the GTX 260 for those with SLi motherboards.

SWEET...ATI makes cars ?! I bet they only come in chick red though...bummer !

I doubt it'll be a lot better than the 4850, so the spot gets tinier but still a spot at the end of the day, 99% thanks to fanboyism.

I haven't had an INTEL system since 1998. That makes me one of those Decade long Die hard ATI fanboys. I haven't been ignoring the performance of the INTEL Quad cores and I've narrowed it down to

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or

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With a

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield overclocked to 3.0 GHz (to be modest)
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Actually you guys are all so ignorant, the correct answer is that you would buy 6 GTX 280's and then figure out how fabricate a good 6-way SLI bridge and possibly use a server cabinet to house it all.

Then you would be set for the next 37264379 years. which in the long run is the name of the game, b/c future-proofing makes the most sense, right?

i will buy many as it takes...... ........to beat my new 4870x2 im getting x) ha!

lol I'm so glad I didn't go with sli since nforce 4 boards.... Unless you are running a screen bigger than 24" or playing at resolutions higher than 1900*1200-ish you do not need 2 of such monstrosities....even the gtx 260's....

"Only" one for more

As my wife said "what is Nvidia going to do if ATI has the better product and cheaper too?"

If the HD 4850 is on the heels of the GTX 260 or GTX 280. Then Nvidia has no hope of winning this round when the HD 4870 & HD 4870 X2 comes out.

That's why I can't understand why they would put a GDDR3, 512 bit bus, 1GB card that's as long as a newborn babies forearm at $640+. They must have spent the Domestic Gross Product of a small country to make those cards.

Maybe they can recover with the next series (what ever it will be called).

the 280 GTX is a waste of money per performance for now, but if you want top of the line, you can't argue

stop it, your making me drool.

And it's amusing in that article how they imply that nVidia still has an undefeatable lead by going on to mention a multi-GPU solution for the GTX 280, failing to note how much power that would consume, as well as failing to remember that the other two 4800 cards are designed to be vastly more potent.

It's actually quite impressive, and NOT fundamentally the same as nVidia's been doing; nVidia's fallen back, sorta, on their GF 3/4/FX era strategy of making the lower-end cards out of an older architecture, in this case, the G92. AMD's new approach is rather novel, in it appears that they're set to tackle a huge range of the market (pretty much the entire enthusiast and serious gamer sector) with but a SINGLE GPU; the RV770pro goes after the G92, while then the RV770XT should handle in the range of the GT200s, and then R700 would be the crown card. A brilliant strategy, given that it allows for a LOT of fault tolerance in production and adjusting for supply and demand. Meanwhile, this could actually hurt nVidia in a MONETARY fashion, since it threatens to eliminate any profitability they have in the enthusiast-level hardware that has historically been their core.

I will buy one when they drop to around $200.

good call

Thats what I did, I'll wait for a 280 Ultra or a 280 GX2

I just bought one (BFG OC), I haven't got the time to install it yet, but I am sure I will be pleased. I was going from a 6600GT so price did not really matter since I rarely spend money on computer parts. From what I can gather it has matched if not beat Dual GPU cards, which to me seems pretty crazy. If it is possible to find the exact same model in the future, I will purchase one or just upgrade it with the BFG service.