Topic: 8600GTS is here!

[Pugnate]

$200 and fairly OK performance! DX10 part so you can watch the slide show of Crysis. But yea not bad... oddly enough in older games like F.E.A.R. or Battlefield it is slightly behind the 7900GS and the X1900XT, in newer titles like Oblivion and Rainbow Six:Vegas it does a better job. Odd.

If you are interested I'd say wait till May 14th when ATi launch their own line. But for $200-$230, this isn't bad:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2970




Personally I'd recommend a 8800GTS 320MB, that Scottws picked up. It is twice the performance at another $50-75.

[MysterD]

Are there any plans for a card to be released that is somewhere b/t the GF 8600 GTS and a regular GF 8800?

[Pugnate]

There is the 8800GTX 768 at $500-600, the 8800GTS 640 at $379, 8800GTS 320 at $295, and then the 8600GTS at $220. Below that come the 8600GT and the 8500.

To answer your question the cards between the 8800GTX and the 8600GTS are the two 8800GTS cards.

Looking to build a new system D? Processors are particularly cheap these days heh.