Ya, I know what you mean.

What I meant was to get the 8800GTS as a temporary card while waiting for the 9000 series....... Of course it would mean spending more money!!!

Well, to be honest, having the game or not doesnt really bother me. Just whether the card performs or not is important to me in the first place.

Well guys, would like to know, for Nvidia 8800gts, which driver is the best?

currently im using 158.22, which seems to be the official driver in www.nvidia.com

apart from that, there's beta drivers as well.

Is there any significant difference in performance when we use beta drivers or sorts? anyone can clarify? which driver is the best in performance for now?

interesting...now i can hope 4 the GTS price 2 drop further to 700 perhaps n then sell off my new x1950pro

wah 9 series coming already, hopefully smaller die and better memory can reduce heat and power consumption..........

Oh totally understood hehe just like what i'd explained in 7series forum.. totally agree with you.. the amount that will be paying for upgrade will still be the same because at that time the price for new card drops, the selling value of our old card drops as well

Yea, it doesnt really affect those who selling their card to get an upgrade

Btw, the 9series cards, if its coming out, imo Nvidia wont be releasing that fast considering theres basically no threat from their competitors yet.

And yea, abt lower power consumptions.

Cheers

This post has been edited by TomatomanzSeedlezz: Jun 23 2007, 03:13 PM

mabe the nvidia wanna distance themselves even further from ati which is even more beneficial 4 us 2 afford 8800 series card at even cheaper price

By that time, people would feel that the 8series is a generation behind and start focusing on the 9series. Comments like, gosh, the 9600GT (for example) does not perform well etc etc..Besides that, more questions of whether i should get the DX10.1 (IIRC) or not will come out as well..For me, get whatever you could afford now, enjoy every last bit of it..It would still be some time before 9series would be here...

Geforce 9 series would be the first batch to use DX10.1 and WDDM 3.0 rite?

w00t!.. finally gotten my MSI 8800GTS 320MB OC EDITION!!!

And best of all it comes with 'Company Of Heroes'!..

Juz installed it few hrs ago, runs great and i gotta say its really quiet too, abt the same noise level as my 7600GT.

So far played RainbowSixVegas which runs great at 1680x1050res!!.. was playing at 1280x800res on my 7600GT, even that res oso laggish

And i benchmarked using COH, and i gotten
avg 73.1fps
max 137fps
min 32.9fps
and best of all it rated "GREAT" status... sweet gaming here i come!

Btw, first time using the latest drivers for 8series.. i noticed kinda different, like the part when i click to see GPU temperature, and it asked me to download nTune.

I gotta say nTune pretty big filesize comparing other 3Dcards utility softwares.

And heres the idle temp. readings i gotten from nTune :-
CPU: 36'C and GPU: 59'C
Good temp.?

Cheers

This post has been edited by TomatomanzSeedlezz: Jun 24 2007, 03:19 AM

Congratz for your great buy mr. Tomatoman



Wa... Dx10 games isn't out yet and there's already talk about DX10.1

Very fast meh...

Phoenixwunin : Thx man!

Btw, if u peeps wanna test stress yer card use this demo :-
http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/#Download

This demo was out few years oredi, if not mistaken.

Im sure u peeps seen this demo before rite?... supposed to be the first HDR demo at that time too.. lol

Cheers

This post has been edited by TomatomanzSeedlezz: Jun 24 2007, 03:38 AM

congrats bro....

what are the clocks u running? and what are the stock clocks?

and most important question... 3dmark05 score??

Bro.. Good news again the price is about drop or is already droping??? Source

This post has been edited by zeustronic: Jun 24 2007, 05:30 AM

wow... if drop again i feel tempted to buy 8800gts le.. See ur benchie i cannot tahan oleidi.

ya ya..tell us the stock clock of ur GTS...is it more than mine??

finally a words bout 9 series...hoping no delay...

this waiting game will never end, while waiting to get the 8series, 9series will be released pula.. and it'll always be like this..

great stuff...from 899 bux the 1st time its release until 599 bux is great 300 bux drop so that would b rm1.9k estimated 4 the card

You got a good deal there. How much you got it anyway?

For the COH, what setting you used cause i am getting average only on my com. Worried that it might be either my card or processor..

For the idling temp, i am getting roughly the same. around 58 - 61c most of the time. enjoy the card...