8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

[IndianScout]

stream processors
88ultra 64
86gt 48

core
88u 500mhz
86gt 350mhz

mem
88u 1400mhz
86gt 1200mhz

mem size
88u 256/512mb
86gt 128/256mb

256bit

price
88u usd$179
86gt usd$129

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

wow.. 8600gt for $129. nice

[camper.]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

I am ON the Ultra. Or maybe when the 8800 gets cheaper...

[megawhompertoo]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

nice info.

taking a wait-and-see. i think prices should fall through the floor on high-end dx9 hardware just prior to the release of crysis, and once there are mainstream dx10 cards on the market. none of the e-tailers will want to be stuck with large stocks of 79xx's and x19xx's, so it might be a great time to score a deal on that x1950xt that has been lusting after my electrons.

besides, the e6420's with double the cache ve6400's will be on the market this summer, for the same price as their 2mb cache cousins.

i just--ha-ha--went the other direction, though. bought a nice refurbished socket 478 mobo and another gig of used pc3200 for cheap on ebay, and a new cooler over at www.SVC.com

they aren't price competitve with newegg most of the time, but their sale/clearance prices on cooling components and cables rocks.

[Supermario]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

the 8600u isnt that good my 7800 GTX is better.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

the 8600u isnt that good my 7800 GTX is better.

And what do you mean by better?
Faster?
DX10 Compatible?
More RAM?

Wait, say again how it's better? I'm all ears. I really want to know.

Counting MHz is for chumps. That's like saying a 3.0 GHz P4 is better than an AMD 4000+.

[Supermario]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

MHz does count though. Obviously a core clock of 600 MHz is better than 350MHz (not true info just an example)

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

MHz does count though. Obviously a core clock of 600 MHz is better than 350MHz (not true info just an example)

So my 7800GT overclocked higher than a stock 7800GTX is better?
Even though it has less pixel pipelines and less RAM?

[Death Merchant]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

8600 ultra seems same as my 7900gs just with 512mb memory and dx10

i expected a little more seeing how good the 8800gtx was

[[Expletive Deleted]]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

Look at the clock speeds of the 8800GTX and compare them to the 7900GTX. Then see how the 8800 spanks a single 7900, and SLIed 7900s in some benchmarks. The stream processors must be doing something right, I guess.
Pure clock speed is not all there is to performance.

[lonegunm4n]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

Pure clock speed is not all there is to performance.

Think of this like P4s and A64s. Higher clockspeed doesn't always mean better.

[ZDOOBY]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

theres more in fo on the new 8600 GT and GTS also has there prices listed :)

http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=4683

[Bloodsport]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

The 7800 GTX has more pipelines = faster card. Clock speed means sh!t if it hasn't got the pipelines to back it up. Period.

[solofowaffles]

Re: 8600 Ultra and 8600 GT Pictures

the ultra looks pretty good:)