GeFoce 9800 Series

Apparently this series will come on market in Feb - March. I was wondering if I should ride out the temptation of buying a 8800GT now and wait until drop in price? Do you think it would be worth the wait or will there not be major price cuts as I have noticed the 8800GT is really popular.

If you are waiting for the 9 series to come for buying them then yes do wait however if you waiting for the 8800GT's price to drop i really doubt it will happen for some time.The 9 series cards would be something like $450 atleast so i dont think that the GT will be affected by that.

Alright probabaly in my price range, the 8800GT would be sufficient enough for me. Also how long do you think it might be until this card is out of date. I had the 6600GT for 3 years and now it doesn't meet the minimum requirement settings for Crysis. bigbros2

that is true but after seeing my friend play crisis on high, it has sort of changed my perspctive and really thought I would be missing out on alot of things if i didn't upgrade.

Everything moves fast in this industry, you cant keep waiting forever for the next best thing, because it will never end.hacker_xyzzy

So true.

that is true but after seeing my friend play crisis on high, it has sort of changed my perspctive and really thought I would be missing out on alot of things if i didn't upgrade.

bigbros2

I see that you have the xxx edition, what's the difference from that and the Alpha?

I see that you have the xxx edition, what's the difference from that and the Alpha?

bigbros2

yh I think I will because games like FEAR, Battlefield 2 games like that, I had to settle with low settingsbigbros2

how long do you think I would have to wait? at least 2 or 3 months?bigbros2

Alright so same time scale, 8800GT decently will last for some time. cool. bigbros2

I dunno guys, if you read the latest info about AMD they state that they won't be releasing any new GPU technology until 2009! What does this mean? Nvidia could just keep making 8800 revisions and make $$$. I can't see them releasing the Geforce 9 without any competition. Ramadear

same scenario as when 8 series came out.

DO NOT WAIT, you won't anyway. Waiting for the next best thing is kinda like waiting for Brittany Spears skirt to fly up, when you finally get done waiting, it really wasn't worth the wait.

Xipo

Personally, I would just get the 8800GT, the price drop after the next gen cards come out wont be that much, prob around $50 or more.hacker_xyzzy

You need to wait until you have a game you feel needs the upgrade, and then get the next big GPU release close to that game.

Hold on - before the "but why not wait forever?" people jump in. Let's take a look at Crysis. Now, if you bought an 8800gtx a year ago, and are now enjoying it with Crysis, you got your money's worth. If you bought it a month before Crysis came out "in preparation", you honestly wasted money - the 8800gt provides similar performance for significantly less money - going SLI with a pair gives you *more performance for the cash*.

So the right answer to the question is "do you have a game (or games) you're looking to get more out of?" If the answer is a confident "yes" then you needn't think a second longer, push the "buy it now" button and enjoy. However, if the answer is "no" - then wait. There's no sense jumping before you have a reason.

I dunno guys, if you read the latest info about AMD they state that they won't be releasing any new GPU technology until 2009! What does this mean? Nvidia could just keep making 8800 revisions and make $$$. I can't see them releasing the Geforce 9 without any competition. Ramadear

Are you sure?

http://www.dailytech.com/AMD+Announces+R680+RV620+RV635+Graphics+Cores/article10033.htm

by the end of Jan08.

yeah the same on fuczilaa

yeah the same on fuczilaa

if you can ... wait 1 year ... in november december (just like this year) a 9800 or 9900 will be release, surpassing all others for really cheaperwaza000