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Thread: 8600 Series Officially Launches: Discuss

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    Reviews are here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=139323

    Well, looks like I owe Perkam a cookie. He won the bet pretty soundly. In my defense, I made that claim when everyone still thought they'd have 64 SPs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cybercat View Post
    Well, looks like I owe Perkam a cookie. He won the bet pretty soundly. In my defense, I made that claim when everyone still thought they'd have 64 SPs.
    Send him one with green M&M's

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    Why does [H] OCP seem to get cards to run games at a much better level than anyone else? They make it sound like the 8600 series are fantastic performers, while Anandtech, tweak, and others all seem disappointed at best?

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    Quote Originally Posted by xVeinx View Post
    Why does [H] OCP seem to get cards to run games at a much better level than anyone else? They make it sound like the 8600 series are fantastic performers, while Anandtech, tweak, and others all seem disappointed at best?
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    They should have been named 7600GTS and 7600GT OC...

    The GT loses to an x1650xt in some games. It's a good thing I went the notebook route this upgrade season.

    Cybercat will not be getting the following title: "I Make Bets I Can't Win"...seeing as the GTS is still a solid contender as its overclocking potential in SLI is quite impressive.

    I will wait for 8900GS and HD2900XL.

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    a graphics card with power gpu and weak memory subsystem

    only factory OC will help it to become popular

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    They are definitely not that much appealing.

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    8600GTS is no more than a 7900GS wit light OC I love my 8800 for 06 10500Mark look @ my rig
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    Quote Originally Posted by HamidFULL View Post
    8600GTS is no more than a 7900GS wit light OC I love my 8800 for 06 10500Mark look @ my rig
    + DX10
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    Yeah hopefully performance (i mean framerates) will be better in dx10 mode
    thats what dx10 is all about in the first place, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SaFrOuT View Post
    + DX10
    -1/4 memory bandwidth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by triple_A View Post
    Yeah hopefully performance (i mean framerates) will be better in dx10 mode
    thats what dx10 is all about in the first place, right?
    Well if performance in DX10 is up. Then my 8800gts on the way will defiantly be smoking .
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    In my opinion, ATi has, and will continue to have a better mid-range lineup.


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    Integrated HDCP on silicon, woot
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    65nm for less power hungry, cooler running cards


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    These cards will run DX10 like the FX5200 runs DX9 -mark my words

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    Quote Originally Posted by irev210 View Post
    In my opinion, ATi has, and will continue to have a better mid-range lineup.


    RV610/630 will have-

    Integrated HDCP on silicon, woot
    Integrated sound for HDMI
    65nm for less power hungry, cooler running cards


    The rest has yet to be seen... but so far so good.
    Still 128bit memory though.
    HDCP on chip gives 0 performance increase & there are HDCP 8600's.

    Only good point on HD 2600 is the 65nm, otherwise it's pretty much as disappointing as the 8600 seems to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KoHaN69 View Post
    These cards will run DX10 like the FX5200 runs DX9 -mark my words
    and that is what holding me from buying the sweet 8800gts 320mb
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    i am so getting the 8800gts 320mb asap...unless the 8900 series is to be released real soon.
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    And why do we have an Official 8600 Series Review Thread when we never had one for the 8800?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Soulburner View Post
    And why do we have an Official 8600 Series Review Thread when we never had one for the 8800?
    Times are a changin'

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    Still 128bit memory though.
    HDCP on chip gives 0 performance increase & there are HDCP 8600's.

    Only good point on HD 2600 is the 65nm, otherwise it's pretty much as disappointing as the 8600 seems to be.
    Erm... info on HD 2x00 series should all be taken with a grain, sorry bag of salt.
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    What a waste of space/time.

    Is NVidia going to release a card with 64 Stream processors? Funny how a $200 card only has 32 SP's while a $300 card has 96...somebody screwed up.

    These should be released as 8200's and 8300's. Not 8500 and 8600...Will NVidia come out with an 8700 series with 64 SP's?
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    1. $200 cards are their biggest market segment.
    2. These cards give the least for the money.
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    Quote Originally Posted by breakfromyou View Post
    What a waste of space/time.

    Is NVidia going to release a card with 64 Stream processors? Funny how a $200 card only has 32 SP's while a $300 card has 96...somebody screwed up.

    These should be released as 8200's and 8300's. Not 8500 and 8600...Will NVidia come out with an 8700 series with 64 SP's?
    you mean 200vs $250

    or did the 8800s go up once everyone saw how much the 8600s sucked and all those who had been holding off we're effectively like " this "

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