bulk only at rm900 now... if u can wait.. then 8800GT as we can see so far...... future till march/april = dont know.... only nvidia knows

its a never-ending goose chase to wait for this and that. By the time you're ready to get the card at your expected time, another will appear and make you doubt ur decision and makes you wait longer.

I also same boat as you. Can't be bothered to wait for 8800GT. Need to play DX10 games NOW oredi, so got item 3 from bulker. The wait is killing me.

Assuming benchies are fairly true, 8800gts 320mb oc does well against the 2900xt. Plus my max reso is 1280x1024 so maybe no need the 512MB vram.

xfx 8800gts 320mb faster than gtx? perhaps. U sure u wanna oc the card with that stock hsf? there's another RM300 for a HR03 plus with a decent fan...

But if you can wait just wait till end yr la, see what they offering then.

AoiNatsume is right. theres no point waiting. technology is just advancing too fast. if im you, i'll grab it, enjoy it for a year or 2 before starting another round of gc hunting again.

wow my speculation for the 8800gt spec is true

damn look at the shader clocks!!!

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/516165/+620

no wonder the fella can get those high scores 2250!!!!

8800 GT cannot do triple SLI

We've learned a quite disturbing fact. The soon to be launched, Geforce 8800GT won't feature support for the upcoming Triple SLI.

This will be a feature reserved only for the high-end cards but we have confirmed a few details for the this and will follow up on this one as soon as we can. It looks like Triple SLI will be a high-end card feature only and it won't work on slower cards.

You will need a new 780i chipset to get Triple SLI operational and this chipset comes in November.

Source : http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=c...d=3607&Itemid=1

Not too suprising cause 8800GT only comes with 1 SLI connector.

Errr... the link is to this page....

hmm the shader could be even higher as gpuz doesnt detect seperate shader clocks...

it just follows the ratio of original clocks and then it multiplies with the core...

hmmm TRIPLE SLI... omg........ DUAL SLI also cant afford d..... dont care about triple or quadraple SLI also

If that's the core can still push futher to 1Ghz, we will have 2500 shader clocks speed. Ok that's insane.

as long as it can play crysis in smooth n nice..den it should be a good card..

This post has been edited by nonamekid: Oct 16 2007, 12:11 AM

dont think this card will hack it.
heck for that .. short term concerns would advice to look forward to ati new gpu solutions.

the fact is now that DX10 is not properly optimized yet. Easier way to understand is, most dx10 games uses more of the gpu power that it supposed to. Investing alot on extreme GPU solutions isnt worth it as of now esp when your main purpose is to "optimize" DX10 games. DX10 is not matured yet and alot of patch/fix will be released soon for games and DX itself. Just imagine spending RM5-6k on GFX itself only to know that you need only half of its power to run in the future. Then a year later your RM5-6k investment is only worth RM1-2k, worth it?

Future? no, no way. you can't even talk for future value in technology since it changes very fast. only can say whether the current product fit your purpose in that moment, if yes then just get it, if not then forget abt it.

is 8600 GTS a good buy for midrange card? I dun need all the video goodies, decent graphic is good for me. currently using the 6600GT.

Thats weird.. according yer specs u shld running LostPlanet very smoothly, esp. considering my rig oredi runs smoothly on it with max details at 1680x1050res.

What o/s are u running on?... if yer gaming on Vista, u shld get the latest patch of LostPlanet, coz it increased it DX10 mode performance alot, or if yer on XP like me, no probs here, running great till i juz finished the game yesterday.. lol

Cheers

if u feel 6600GT is enuf for u....... then 8600GTS will be more than enuf..... good....
how much ur GTS is??... go for 8800GTS if possible at rm900 range.....

yea, thats seriously weird. Something must be wrong somewhere, check my siggy below, able to run Lost planet rather smoothly(min 30fps average 50-60fps), and not to mention, its an AMD rig. Everything max out only shadows are set to low.

This post has been edited by AoiNatsume: Oct 16 2007, 05:45 AM

dunno much about dx10... but i played on dx9 on my old com last time....... pentium 4 3.2ghz... 2gb DDR400.... 7800GS Extreme Edition AGP8x...... can even run nearly everythg on high with HDR and 1280x1024..... with playable framerate....

sumthg must be going totally wrong... maybe driver issue or others..

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Added on October 16, 2007, 6:23 amwah AoiNatsume..... ur xfx 8800GTS 320mb OC at 650/1625/1100

normal version??? OC version or xxx version?...looks like its a good card...

This post has been edited by vincentlaw: Oct 16 2007, 06:27 AM

Nah, mine also same. Max out the settings(check my rig in siggy)
1 word = Lagnesss