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Re: NVidia confusion...



 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.) 

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