When will the 8600 GS be obsolete?

When will it be?

 

tomorrow at 8am.

honestly, it depends on your needs..it might be for a year, or a few years. it depends on what you need the card to do. if your heavily gaming and want great FPS with all the eye candy, at 1920x1200 etc... then you may be looking at the wrong card to begin with.

I would suggest at least the 8600GT GDDR3, such as the one in the G1S. what is your budget?

 

Well if you want to get technical about it, the moment technology is released to the public it becomes obsolete, something bigger and better is always in the works but only select few will know about it . for casual gamers this will last a few years atleast.

 

Obsolete...well that would be as soon as the 9 series comes out.

As far as not being able to play the latest games...I think this time next year, you'll be playing at low-med settings.

 

The 8600 was underwhelming in the first place, so my vote is for 'now'. The 9600's should be quite the ass kicker though. Either way, depending on usage it should work fine. It can play current games on medium-high at moderate resolutions. (Wow... a while ago I had an ATI one of them...) Don't count my opinion (the 86 sucks!) for too much, because I'm pretty xcore into eye candy (see sig). But as Bona said, by this time next year (or even in a month, depending on what Bioshock or Crysis is like...) you'll be on low settings. Or high ones at really low res.

 

dude honestly, why didn't u just buy a desktop, lol.

 

The 8600M GS was never really the sharpest tool in the shed. I believe it is pretty much the equivalent the Go 7700, so it's not like it had much of a head start performance-wise. It does offer DX10 support, but I doubt it has sufficient power to run DX10 games enjoyably at native resolutions (1280x800 and up).

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41577

From the Microsoft standpoint, the 8600M GS and all current DX10 GPUs will be obsolete with the release of DX10.1. That is in beta right now and may be release before the end of the year. DX10.1 really doesn't bring anything new, just cleans up some stuff and makes some previously optional components mandatory. (Although I'm not sure how there could have been optional components in DX10 when there aren't compatibility bits to flag what features the GPU supports).

 

I plan on getting a laptop with the 8600 GS, and i dont care if i becomes obsolete. Im upgrading from a Geforce MX 440 w/ 64mb, this card cant even get 10 fps in cs 1.6 anymore. So im pretty sure ill be happy with the 8600 gs.

 

the whole mid-range 8 series is already obsolete. Its already been proven they can't handle DX10 games efficiently.

 

My 8400M GS will never become obsolete. I play Counter-Strike and MMORPGS because single player games just can't keep my attention.

(Yes, I've already quit playing Oblivion about 4 hours after I started.)

"Obsolete" is an objective opinion and will vary from person to person. Just ask yourself which types of games you play, and whether or not you think you'll like many upcoming titles.

 

I voted now because im tired of people asking to estimate the time till their graphics card is outdated.

 

No joke. If you want the newest and fastest, go ahead and get a desktop. The GPU in my 2 year old desktop is still ahead of anything in a laptop to this day.

 

Considering many games out there today will run on GeForce 4 cards if the game supports Dx8, then I think a Dx10 card won't have much issue down the road. I've read several articles discussing what games being developed today will have as the recommended sytem requirement. I believe the 8600 is being considered the median GPU at the moment for games coming out in another year.

I had super crappy (8MB!!!) graphics on an old Sony Vaio laptop but still ran stuff up until a few years ago. Granted everything had to run Dx7 and 640x480 but it still worked.

 

It's almost a given that a certain technology is practically obsolete the moment it's released.

I'm getting a laptop with the 8600 GS in it and I'm not worried as long as it sustains my Sims 2.

 

Even the 8600GT is obsolete. A true mobile 8800 is the only card that's current. The rumors say that Nvidia is releasing the new 9 series in the winter, but those will cost $700 and are only needed for extreme uses like 1080p playing resolution in DX10.

 

I have a question, is the 8600gs a bad card??? Because it seems like everyone always says how crappy it is compared to the GT. Thats obvious, but i plan on getting the gs.

My question is that is this a good card even? I dont plan on playing that many games, maybe some old games that came out like 2 years ago. The only 2 future games i would play are Need for speed pro street and starcraft 2. But thats occasionally. I like to watch videos in hd. Is this card sufficient for my needs???

 

Which DX10 game is that? bioshock is the first game in which the finished DX10 implimentation to a spit-and-shine level. None of the other games that have DX10 are really well implimented with loads of nvidia and MS support. Call of jerus and Company of heros just had a little update to sort of "Sandbox" DX10 in . i have the DDR2 8600GT and it can run World in conflict at full quality in DX9 mode and dont forget that at the time of the beta thier DX10 optimization was only half way done. when that game comes out it should be able to run fine on this thing.

just cus fine is subjective heres what i consider fine:
RTS: 10+ fps running at highest quality.
FPS: 30+ FPS running at least med quality
RPG: I dont play them.
MMO: Absolute highest quality.