8800GT Official Reviews

[takamishanoku]

Well a 1Gb 8800GT is also going to be released. Still though i think for crysis at those res, just wait for series 9.

[Ub3r-L33ch]

Well a 1Gb 8800GT is also going to be released. Still though i think for crysis at those res, just wait for series 9.

I just hope 9 series is out before my 90 days eVGA step-up option is over :\

[GoldenTiger]

I just hope 9 series is out before my 90 days eVGA step-up option is over :\

That would be awesome but I doubt it . Still, the thought of step-up to two 9-series cards for SLI is... (homer-simpson drool)

[aiya]

theres no word on when that will be though and some people (like myself) don't want to wait till Q1 2008 (rumored) for it. so if anything i'm waiting for the G92 GTS 1GB from eVGA and if nvidia releases their new highend in Feb 2008 i'll still be able to step-up to it.

[RPGWiZaRD]

CRT ftw, even on this 7900GTO it's barely playable @ 1152x864 very high with only shadow quality and postprocessing set to medium with no AA (GF7 doesn't support HDR+AA anyways) and doesn't look so bad. Sure would suck to sit with a 24" LCD.

I guess with a 8800GT I'll be able to play at same res or possibly 1280x960 with very high + AA4x.

[Soulburner]

Sure would suck to sit without a 24" LCD.

Corrected. 1920x1200 plays fine here on high and I find it hard to play on non-widescreen monitors now - it is just too cramped, I feel like I'm being confined to a little box and I can't see to the sides.

[Pacha]

hi guys

got mine BFG 8800GT OC today








CHIPSET : GeForce 8800 GT (G92)

MEMORY TYPE : 512 MB DDR3

MEMORY INTERFACE : 256-bit

GPU : 625MHz (vs. 600MHz standard)

PIXEL PIPELINES : 112 @ 1566MHz (vs. 1500MHz standard)

MEMORY MHZ : 1800 Mhz



tests tomorow @ watercooled

nice
please post your temps with your scores to see if it runs cool like some others do.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Corrected. 1920x1200 plays fine here on high and I find it hard to play on non-widescreen monitors now - it is just too cramped, I feel like I'm being confined to a little box and I can't see to the sides.

Well every1 got their own preference I guess, for me:

100Hz gaming > size+IQ

A 100Hz LCD 20 - 22" WS is what I'd want, no bigger though. But there's no such option yet so.

[Soulburner]

Tell me. What good is "100Hz gaming" when you can't game at 100Hz?

You aren't pushing 100fps in Crysis, that's for sure.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Tell me. What good is "100Hz gaming" when you can't game at 100Hz?

You aren't pushing 100fps in Crysis, that's for sure.

Sure, but in low quality.

But somehow I feel Crysis runs unusually smooth despite a low FPS, 50 FPS feels almost like 100 FPS in some other games. Would be nice with 40 fps minimum though, that's whereabout I think for me where the limit goes what I'd consider as perfect gameplay and somewhat unsmooth gameplay.

Nah Crysis is a game I want good IQ in too but many other games I'd rather use low quality to get high fps instead, like UT series is a must @ 100 FPS for me, I prefer low quality in UT3 demo anyday altho it runs at a quite steady 40~50 FPS with high quality settings @ 1280x960.

[aiya]

Corrected. 1920x1200 plays fine here on high and I find it hard to play on non-widescreen monitors now - it is just too cramped, I feel like I'm being confined to a little box and I can't see to the sides.

QFT

i was over at my friend's house to try out the crysis demo and also pick it up so i wouldn't have to download it .

he has opty 165 oc'ed to 2.6ghz/1GB/17" lcd w/8800GTX SC... that bastard . anyway he was running it on medium settings w/8xAA (yeah, my friend don't know jack about how game settings work. he thought it was like source games with small performance hit ). sure it looked good and everything but the screen was just too small for my liking. when i got home later that day, i ran it on my system. its just a totally different experience on a larger, wider screen even without AA.

[Pacha]

Well every1 got their own preference I guess, for me:

100Hz gaming > size+IQ

A 100Hz LCD 20 - 22" WS is what I'd want, no bigger though. But there's no such option yet so.

same deal for me, I won't change my 930SB for a glossy wide tv-like screen right now. I'd prefer to buy a 4/3 1600*1200 lcd 20" or 21" but there is almost none at an affordable price with very good specs.
and playing at 1280*960 isn't a problem for me, even if it's surely more beautiful at 1920*1200 it requires so much gfx power...

I've been waiting for things like Canon SED or Nec LED screens, very promising technologies outperforming lcd by far in many points, but it looks like these screens will never show their ing ass to the market someday.

[Soulburner]

I have gamed at 60, 75, 85, and 100Hz. I understand the difference in mouse response and fluid play. However most games feel just fine to me locked at 60, therefore I don't have a problem with modern LCDs. This may be personal preference but I do not feel hindered at all playing at 60Hz - which is actually what the game developers design games for. Since physics calculations and other things are run at certain fractions of the framerate, some games behave differently and can give you an edge playing at 100. Quake 3 comes to mind, not sure about newer titles.

same deal for me, I won't change my 930SB for a glossy wide tv-like screen right now. I'd prefer to buy a 4/3 1600*1200 lcd 20" or 21" but there is almost none at an affordable price with very good specs.
and playing at 1280*960 isn't a problem for me, even if it's surely more beautiful at 1920*1200 it requires so much gfx power...

Technically you aren't restricted to 1920x1200. My BenQ FP241W is actually very flexible in this regard - it becomes essentially a 22" if I wanted to run 1680x1050 and its centered in the screen with black area around it. Sure I can stretch it to fill, but why? It just ends up looking like garbage.

[aiya]

unfortunately, my 24" can't do 1:1 pixel matching so if i set it to a lower res than native, it stretches.

sometimes i feel like getting a 26" 720p HDTV to replace my dell as my main and have it as a secondary.

[revogamer]

Ill be receiving the Palit 8800GT in the next few days, it has a aftermarket cooler and it has a 3 phase power http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=9055&cid=6.

[BrowncoatGR]

Ill be receiving the Palit 8800GT in the next few days, it has a aftermarket cooler and it has a 3 phase power http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=9055&cid=6.

Looks like a vf900-cu to me

[revogamer]

all the better, its already $10 cheaper here in New Zealand than any other model, ill do some testing and show results when i get it.

[Pacha]

Technically you aren't restricted to 1920x1200. My BenQ FP241W is actually very flexible in this regard - it becomes essentially a 22" if I wanted to run 1680x1050 and its centered in the screen with black area around it. Sure I can stretch it to fill, but why? It just ends up looking like garbage.

downscaling without adding black stripes in order to use only a portion of the lcd matrix cannot look anything else than garbage, interpolation related. that's the problem. I'd prefer having a real quality full screen mode.
Anyway, I'd prefer a 4/3 ratio, I'm not keen on the 16/10 aspects.

[kemo]

all the better, its already $10 cheaper here in New Zealand than any other model, ill do some testing and show results when i get it.

and how do you make sure that this is the one with better cooling not the reference coz both have the same product code and listed on the same page on palit website

[VETDRMS]

For those looking for these. Best Buy seems to have the BFG OC brands in stores. There were 4 on the shelf at a Best Buy near me last night for $279.

[adamsleath]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...orce_8800_gt/6
some world in conflict scores.

[revogamer]

and how do you make sure that this is the one with better cooling not the reference coz both have the same product code and listed on the same page on palit website

i asked the retailers im buying them from that it was the one in the picture on there website, and they said yes.

[RPGWiZaRD]

all the better, its already $10 cheaper here in New Zealand than any other model, ill do some testing and show results when i get it.

Lucky!

I wonder why they decided to use 3 phase power though, it's not normal to see a variation like that. At best we usually see some custom cooler design and their usual own sticker but an extra mosfet? I hope it would show a difference in clock results too though.

[revogamer]

Lucky!

I wonder why they decided to use 3 phase power though, it's not normal to see a variation like that.

yea i hope it helps, ill post temps, overclock and some benchmarks and see how noisy this thing is compared to my old 2900XT. it should be here either tomorrow or the next day, hopefully.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Prices have started dropping quite a bit now, it's a miracle I see the Club 3D 8800GT card listed for even 221 EUR here in Finland (of course not in stock though). But that's a price I never expected to see here in this country where all hardware prices are like minimum $40 expensier. Hope the price stays cuz I'd really wanna see if the Palit version is worth waiting for first.

I wonder exactly how long we have to wait until the availability is even decent, I don't feel like testing my luck picking from a random site.