personally i don't think the 8600GT will sell well
if the prices are $179 for U and $149 for GT then it's only an extra $30 for 16 more stream processors, fast core clock, double memory and moderately faster ram

nagging feeling is that the numbers presented are probably off

$179 for a card with 512MB? seems unlikely somehow, unless it was perhaps if it was DDR2 but I don't think they will use that anymore on the new chip.
I have doubts about these specs/prices, although seeing it's a chinese site perhaps those are the prices in china, and not in the west.
But we'll see.

Sign me up for 2 of those 8600 Ultras...as long as they have similar power reqs to a 7600 (ie no PCIE power cable needed). Hopefully they will be following suit and making this one a 256-bit card...I've noticed that the 8800s were using memory interfaces that were 1/2 the ram bit wise. 768 had 384, 640 had 320...etc(the new 8800 lite does not fit).

mmmmm x600 series, memory clocks a little low, might buy one if its significantly faster than my 7600GT or enough DX10 games are out or should I wait for the R600?

According to those price lists, either the 8800* prices are about to crash (at R600 launch?), or there are more models yet to come. While the 299$ 320MB 8800GTS is decent stopgap, it still leaves two pretty big windows between the 179$ 8600U, the 299$ 8800GTS lite, and the 500$ 8800GTS full.

I'd bet that we will see the 320MB GTS, but at somewhere more like 250$, and we'll see the 8800GTS and GTX come down to ~350-400$ and ~450-500$. These launches/cuts would probably be organized and timed to let the air out of AATMID's R600 launch.

Hey hey, it's the return of the 'Ultra' moniker!

I hope NVIDIA fixes their 8000 series DX9 drivers by the time these cards are released so we can also do folding on them! With NVIDIA's lower power use (preliminary numbers for the ATI/AMD cards seem to be quite a bit higher) and 64 process stream thingies, hopefully the 8600U will be a mainstream powerhouse that is also great for folding.

Wow they really hit the ground running with the G80. I'm looking forward to a good single slot cooled card.

Any Passive cooling? Hopefully eVga could pull that off on the 8600, then I may bight.

;o) Any chance of these being 65nm? Hopefully with less complexity these would be 'normal' cards even if they do end up sticking with 90nm. I'm assuming the 8600 will use 256bitDDR while 8300 will use 128bitDDR, if so relative speed would line up something like so ...

$180 8600U core=100% RAM=100%
$150 8600GT core=53% RAM=86%
$95 8300GT core=50% RAM=43%
$75 8300GS core=38% RAM=36%

:o) While the 8800GTS and 8600 would line up like so:

$400 8800GTS_640 core=100% RAM=100%
$300 8800GTS_320 core=100% RAM=100%
$180 8600U core=67% RAM=70%
$150 8600GT core=36% RAM=60%

Let me know when I can softmod one of those bad boys into a 8800. I doubt it but this being Nvidia you never know.

Interesting stuff. Just please don't let me get the "itch". Wait, forgot I've got Step-up opportunities if these hit the street soon enough. Woot!