BFG 8800GTS - Once amazing, now redundant (BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2)

Member Name: neillya1

Product:	BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2
Date:	21/01/09 (37 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Powerful card at the time (still relatively so)

Disadvantages: Huge - too large for some PCs, massive power consumption, lacks DX10.1 support

I bought this graphics card the day after it was launched, and I must say, it was rather pricey. £380, over half of what my ENTIRE PC build cost me.
But the main question, was it worth it?

Well at the times, YES, it most certainly was. This could could play anything that was out (assuming the rest of your rig is up to scratch), and even had Direct X 10.

The key here is that I wrote that paragraph in the past tense. What was once amazing is now almost redundant.

For starters, you can now get more powerful cards cheaper than this (8800GT), which is also smaller (This card was hard to fit in a large PC case, and took up 2 PCI slots), and has a lower power consumption.
Also, the newer cards (The 9 series) have DX10.1 support, something which this card lacks. I guess that's the price you pay for getting the first generation of something though.

I don't regret buying the card, it was amazing at the time, and still is pretty good, but there are much better alternatives out there, and at a fraction of the price.

My advice:

STAY AWAY! Buy it now and you are WASTING YOUR MONEY!

Summary: Once a "must buy", now most definitley an "avoid".

Processing/Quality:
Reliability:
Installation:
Installation:
3D-rendering:
Precision: