Re: NVidia confusion...

["Stephen Adler" <user=65@nabble.blu.org>]

 You are right, I do have my eye on the 8800gt, but right now it looks 
like the card is pushing 300... (i.e. $299 at tiger direct etc.) 


Mark J. Dulcey wrote: 
> Matthew Gillen wrote: 
>> 
>> Depends on how much money you want to spend.  The 8800 is by many 
>> accounts 
>> orders of magnitude better in terms of performance.  However, I can't 
>> justify 
>> $300 for a video card (plus I have a dinky power supply that I was 
>> nervous 
>> about stressing too much).  ~$100 for the 8600 was a bit easier, so I 
>> got that 
>> one instead (and the particular one I got only required a 300W PS). 
> 
> He was asking about the new 8800GT 
> (http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/geforce_8800_gt/), which is 
> only around $200. It's also not as fast or as power-hungry as the 
> other 8800 family members. And I must correct my earlier post; the 
> 8800GT DOES include hardware HD decoding, unlike the older 8800 cards. 
> (I suspect that means we will see the rest of the 8800 line get an 
> update soon.) 
>