Kinda like buying a formula one for 10 millions.But you can't go at 300 mph in a city.You flash and that it

800 dollars for a video card .I just don't get it.I have the money and could purchase it.But the technology advance so quick it's useless spending so much for a video card.That kind of card seem only for people wanting to *flash*.Or just brainwashed.

Running a video game at 200 FPS or 30-40 FPS.It's still the same thing.It's very playable in both case and the graphic are the same.Even if you card can count 1 trillions whatever baziilion of ballion pixel.IF the game you play don't have that ammount lol . THan it's fucking useless

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Nvidia expects Ultra prices to start at roughly $829

Ridiculous. Might as well buy a 360, a Wii and some games.

Final words of article "intended prey".....Does this imply the Ultra will Eat the HD 2900 xtx???

When will the NDA be lifted and the real story told?

What a steal.

(As in, nVidia is doing the stealing.)

Edit: Oh yeah, in 6 months these cards will be obsolete again, and they'll probably be $400 cheaper.

I've just ordered two. Gonna SLI 'em up. / goofy, not to be taken seriously tag

I have several friends that buy the highest end stuff..

For a couple of em thier systems wind up 4000 anyway due to custom cooling rigs and various other things... multiple high end hdds max high eed ram... so adding even an 800 buck card isnt a big deal.

Anouther friend of mine is just MANIC about framerate. He gets motionsick very easy so he is obsessed with speed to prevent it.. seems any kizzups trigger it. For him watercooling and so on are baseline...

Then there is that guy... we all know em.. He OBSESSES on every detail and is VERY obseesive compulsive. He has the best for the same reason his garbage disposal is the most powrful made and his car gets exactly 6 zillion mpg and so on.

And not to many of them are RICH they just spend alot of what they have on thier obsessions.

You'd have to be an idiot to buy this card. Nvidia's gone nutz.

Hector Ruiz, with his need for celebrity and power, has brought two companies, ATI and AMD, to their knees, allowing the competition to do whatever they please. At least intel is not raping us blind --far from it actually. Too bad the same can't be said about Nvidia. Nvidia chose margins over volume, which is far from optimum for those of us who would be willing to spend a small fortune, but not everything we have, on a very high end card.

I yearn for those times when I read shootouts between ATi, nVidia, Matrox, S3, 3DFX...

Yeah, I think we all do, even though any of the choices out there in the midrange market from red or green are good ones for the average user, and for them, fewer choices = easier computing/gaming.

Maybe Intel's performance graphics entry next year will bring something new to the table...

7950GX2 still looking good, especially when bang/$ comes into it.

That GTS SLI arrangement is pretty close, though. It's just those few outlier titles that beneift 0% from SLI that still make me leery, that and giving up FOUR slots to graphics hardware.

Wake me when Newegg are selling these for $159 *yawn*

8800 Ultra = factory overclocked 8800GTX for another $200. It is meant to spoil HD 2900XTX's thunder, but 8800Ultra will end-up being another 6800UE (cherry-picked GPUs = very limited quantities).

8800GTS 640MB utterly crushes it for performance/price in the high-end segment.

8800GTX can overclock just as high without too much trouble.

as my asus 8800gtx runs with 670 clocked GPU who any problems with the regular stock cooler i have no need to buy a Ultra, and the 10% more clock in the Pixel shader dosnt make that big difference.

Most of us reading this review think the same as 200+$ can be better invested :)

In my opinion, Supreme Commander is pretty awful, graphics wise. The art is surprisingly low-poly, there are simple shadows for units, and there's some generic terrain and water.

As far as the graphics engine goes, I think GasPowered Games has one of the most poorly implemented. Other game developers can do better with the hardware available.

I expect some rather good overclocked cards will pop up with 1.4 ghz ram and say 2 ghz shaders...

I was going to say something witty. About the high price, and the e-penis, but it looks like everyones probably said it already...

Damage, you seem to be getting a little jaded on this whole "bigger/badder/faster/harder" thing that the H/W manufacturers are pushing. ;)

I get the feeling that the overclocked cards aren't going to be overclocked by that much. If this is for bragging rights only to counter the new AMD hotness, which will apparently be rather good, then Nvidia can't be able to reliably clock these much higher IMO.

Course, they could also be allowing themselves some wiggle room for future releases should AMD's stuff absolutely destroy them, and/or for the overclocking manufacturer crowd...

would have liked to see a quick comparison of XP numbers on 1 game or something to see how the drivers are shaping up since Vista release.

You know with all the crying isn't the 2900XT beating the GTS (which is the tops most want to pay for a card). If the 2900XT can hit that $200 - 250 mark the GTS hits then we have a winner.

This card is just to poop in ATI's cornflakes.

However, there are plenty of people willing to dish out 1K for a CPU so some of these will probably sell.

I was hoping for a little more performance increase for a $200 price increase. At least the 6800 super-ultra edition had a good bit better performance.

This card is just to poop in ATI's cornflakes. --PRIME1

That's a fist full of sand in the face and then a kick straight to the nuts. --flip-mode

first two comments I saw on the comments page, had me laughing here. Very good guys :lol:

Very good article, too. When are we going to see a review of some card that isn't ATi ATI AMD or nVidia NVidia NVIDIA Nvidia? I know it isn't up to you what gets produced, but I yearn for those times when I read shootouts between ATi, nVidia, Matrox, S3, 3DFX...

It's monumentally disapointing to me that HD video processing available on the lower end cards isn't a part of this super-high-end card's profile. That's a fist full of sand in the face and then a kick straight to the nuts.

FWIW, I'd much rather be reading a TR review of an 8500 - you know, something a few of us will actually buy.

This is just a press stunt to make the green bar bigger than the red bar when the R600 is released.

That Nvidia felt a jump from 575 to 612mhz was enough to put them ahead of AMD - when almost any 8800GTX with the standard cooler is good for 650 and they could have cherry picked out 675mhz if not 700mhz for this card if they had felt the need - suggests that along with awfully late, R600 is going to be awfully disappointing in performance as well.

AMD is so dead.

Wow...quite underwhelming. Very pleased with my BFG 8800GTX OC2 purchase last week--even moreso now.

I heard that 8800 Ultra consume less power than 8800GTX, is that true ?

Where is the news about GPU market shares??? It's missing from,the front page.. just disappeared :-?