GeForce 8800 GT Gets Top Marks from GFW

I found my December issue of Games for Window in my mailbox a few days ago. It arrived just five short days after the November issue, which should give you a pretty good idea of the quality of service my local post office provides.

There’s lots of juicy stuff inside the December issue, most notably a review of Nvidia’s most recent videocard, the GeForce 8800 GT. GFW gave it a ten out of ten, noting the card’s benchmarks perform almost as well as the beefier 8800 counterparts, but costs significantly less. All the performance for a fraction of the price.

Well, almost. Even though Nvidia trumpeted the 8800 GT as selling for around $200, the review notes that no one can actually find a card at that price. Sure enough, I did a newegg.com search and found most of the 8800 GTs to be hovering around $300. There are a couple priced between $209 and $250, but only the ones with 256 MB of onboard RAM.

Creative marketing on the part of Nvidia aside, the 8800 GT seems a great card to consider if you’re in the market.