NVIDIA 8600 GTS arrived at OcUK Today!!

jrodga2k5 · 13 Apr 2007 at 19:58

I read that at the time and it so didnt dawn on me, just made me laugh cos it's what everyone is thinkin!

Cyber-Mav · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:00

Ulfhedjinn said:
The X1950Pro doesn't cost more.

Edit: Unless you were agreeing with him, it's hard to tell with you sometimes.

im agreeing with him, why pay more for the 8600gts and get less performance. :confused:

Cyber-Mav · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:02

Tute said:
I'm shocked at the price of these, I honestly thought they'd be closer to £100 to at least give them a chance of selling, but I really think they'll struggle at that price.

exactly what i was thinking, i thought they would be going for 100 quid bang on. but they not worth it. if they were 65nm then for the low power consumption htpc users would be more into it with the hdmi etc.

Cyber-Mav · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:04

Tom|Nbk said:
Any company that sells products in relation to what OcUK sell's regardless of prices are still regarded as a competitor.

ahh, like harrods vs tesco's. same crap but rinser prices. i know where i would go.

Tom|Nbk · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:06

Cyber-Mav said:
ahh, like harrods vs tesco's. same crap but rinser prices. i know where i would go.

As long as yer dont get your petrol from tesco's thats good thinking, but thats a completely different matter

Cyber-Mav · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:10

Tom|Nbk said:
As long as yer dont get your petrol from tesco's thats good thinking, but thats a completely different matter

hehe they been watering it down again have they?

easyrider · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:13

Yeah I would just get the x1950 pro.

At least that way you have better DX9 performance.

And lets face it,at this moment in time thats what counts

LoadsaMoney · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:17

*faints*

fornowagain · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:19

Cyber-Mav said:
you call those guys competitors??? like they can really compete with ocuk

A competitor isn't necessarily competition.

LoadsaMoney · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:20

Im going back to specsavers tomorrow, the ***** have gave me a duff pair, im seeing things now, either that or im ******

Tute · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:26

Ulfhedjinn said:
It was an on-topic reply and not intended as trolling.

Doesn't matter - Gibbo said stop it entirely, and i'd hate anyone to lose their account over anything petty.

Cyber-Mav said:
exactly what i was thinking, i thought they would be going for 100 quid bang on. but they not worth it. if they were 65nm then for the low power consumption htpc users would be more into it with the hdmi etc.

Plus that's not even factoring in drivers. If the past few months are anything to go by, you're going to be waiting ages for some good drivers anyway.

I'm really shocked, I thought nVidia had this mid-range thing nailed down, after all the 7600GT was an absolutely stonking card, fantastic value for money and good performance, slightly better than X850XT/6800U IIRC.

Darkwave · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:27

Tute said:
Doesn't matter - Gibbo said stop it entirely, and i'd hate anyone to lose their account over anything petty.

But I wasn't being argumentative, just discussing the cooling required to overclock it to 1GHz.

*Sends Jack Bauer to get you.*

Tute · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:29

Ulfhedjinn said:
But I wasn't being argumentative, just discussing the cooling required to overclock it to 1GHz.

*Sends Jack Bauer to get you.*

No point in even trying to run then.

*sits there and waits for the inevitable*

Darkwave · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:32

Tute said:
No point in even trying to run then.

*sits there and waits for the inevitable*

Tom|Nbk · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:42

easyrider said:
Yeah I would just get the x1950 pro.

At least that way you have better DX9 performance.

And lets face it,at this moment in time thats what counts

*Wipes eye* , *Sits in disbelief*

Cyber-Mav said:
hehe they been watering it down again have they?

Nope small thing about contaminated fuel though.

,

Sean_UK · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:47

Raikiri said:
Wow, like I said it could have been a good card. Shame about the price.

Needs to be a lot less (around the £90-100 mark) for it to be worth while, will still sell though because it is DX10.

Agreed, i thought it would cost between £125-£150 once it hit the shelves, which in my opinion is too much.

V|per · 13 Apr 2007 at 20:56

I was really looking forward to this card, as i have always been a user of NV's mid range cards... (66gt, 76gt etc) once again they have proven themselves with a mah00sive core clock, with fantastic clockability (heh, i invented a word

) but when i heard about the memory bandwidth, i just knew what was going to happen

This card really had potential to be great, big shame that it clearly isn't as good as it should be...

Looks like im going to have to either stick with these 76gt's or think about getting an 8800gts (as there is clearly no point in NOT spending the extra £20 on them) or perhaps (dare i say..) i should be thinking of finally using ATI....

Tom|Nbk · 13 Apr 2007 at 21:04

Anyone that is after a card and considered the 8600gts, check out MM and you'll find a few 8800gts for a tenner more

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JediFragger · 13 Apr 2007 at 21:10

Slagging off nV *never* gets old

And they really dropped the ball with this one

X1900XT for £50 off MM f.t.w.

(512mb too)

furnace · 13 Apr 2007 at 21:12

It got old for me when my second ATI card b0rked