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Sunday Comics: Dead Island I’ve raved about NVIDIA’s 8800GT chip before. For less than $200, you can get yourself a 3D card with comparable performance to the company’s top-of-the-line $400-$500 offerings. Bang, meet buck.
Hardware review site HardOCP decided to put the 8800GT, along with newer models like the 9800GTX and 9600GT, against Funcom’s recently released MMO Age of Conan. The game is one of the prettier online titles available at the moment, so concerns about aging video cards is certainly warranted. If you bought a GeForce 8800GT back when supplies were low, is it a purchase you should be regretting now?
If you’re looking to give your PC a bit of a jolt in the 3D accelerator department because you can only play Crysis on “Looks like arse” mode, don’t buy anything just yet.
NVIDIA’s just released the 8800GT, which is essentially a refresh of G80, the main chip that powers the current range of GTX and GTS cards. The new hardware in the 8800GT, dubbed “G92″, comes complete with a die shrink to 65nm, which means less heat and faster clocks. In fact, the GPU and RAM run faster than the top-of-the-line GTX.
Early benchmarks show the card coming very close to the performance of the GTX, which is pretty impressive for a refresh. Price-wise, 8800GT cards will be cheaper than the GTS (and about 1/3 the cost of a GTX), making the card even more tempting a purchase. Over in the US, cards are retailing for about $US 200-250.
There’s nothing on the Oz market just yet, but give it a few weeks and they should start appearing.
UPDATE: Scratch that, a few eagle-eyed readers have spotted stock in the following places: PLE Aus PC Market
Going rate seems to be $350-400, which reeks of that awesome kind of madness.
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT: The Only Card That Matters [AnandTech]
