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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.) >
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