Video Cards & GPUs - Page 471

Since the release of NVIDIA's 9800GX2 a couple weeks back, we've not seen anything too exciting in the way of vendors sprucing up the card over the reference design. I guess many felt it wasn't necessary to as the card boasts some pretty mean characteristics as it stands.

EVGA however have just come forth with a super duper offering they call the 9800GX2 SSC; this card's 1024MB of memory is set to run at 2100MHz with the GPU and 256 Stream Processors operating at 675MHz and 1674MHz respectively.

Word is circulating that just four short months after the launch of the 9800 GTX (set for launch tomorrow), Nvidia will welcome its new high-end graphics cards to the world.

ABIT was once a monstrous motherboard maker with an instrumental marketing machine and engineering team behind it who could do no wrong - except for of course, accounting.

Rumor has it that AMD is busily preparing a new graphics card in its Radeon HD 3800 series line-up.

Images have recently surfaced that pretty well conclusively confirm the specifications of Nvidia's upcoming GeForce 9800GTX graphics card.

The card which was exposed is called EN9800GTX and it features all the usual goodies - PCI Express 2.0, DirectX 10.0 (still not DX10.1) and OpenGL 2.0 support, 512MB of GDDR3 memory and triple-SLI. This specific card is based on the reference model from Nvidia which mean it carries default clock speeds. In Typical ASUS fashion, they will probably launch a factory overclocked "TOP" model sometime after the launch (April 1st).

At least on paper, it looks like nothing more than an overclocked G92 8800GT 512MB. The price tag is expected to be around $350 USD which is a reasonable price but if you were expecting a new card with ultra high performance improvements, it doesn't seem like that will be the case at this stage and from what we have seen and heard so far.

As you would expect, we have 9800GTX samples already on the way and testing will begin very soon!

Corsair were first up today to issue a press release announcing their newest DDR3 memory kit designed exclusively to work with Nvidia's recently released nForce 790i SLI Ultra based motherboards.

Corsair's DOMINATOR DDR3 TW3X2G2000 modules come in a 2GB kit and will work at 2000MHz DDR on 790i based motherboards and they also included EPP2 pre-loaded for optimal performance.

Shane sent me a link earlier showing that an EVGA GeForce 9800 GX2 has already popped up on eBay.

The seller has ended the auction now but had three units available for $629.99 USD plus $39.99 USD shipping charges.

"The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale."

The lads at PCOnline have chosen to jump the gun a little on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card, set to be launched in less than a week from now. They've posted up a whole bunch of benchmark runs with the dual-G92 monster in conjunction with an Intel QX6850 CPU at 3.0 GHz on ASUS' Striker II Formula motherboard and an early supported (ForceWare 173.67) beta driver.

It seems as if no graphic card is safe at the moment - there is no hiding - especially during the CeBIT trade show in Germany.

Curtsey of some folks from China, we get a up-close view of the upcoming Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card which should release before the end of this month if we are not mistaken.

Nvidia's upcoming single GPU monster is based on a 65nm G92 chip and will replace the current GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB as the fastest single GPU card on the market. There are no details on pricing yet but it is stripped naked for public viewing right here.

Enjoy, you perv!

AMD has released details about its forthcoming ATI Catalyst 8.3 display driver which is due out anytime now for users of Windows Vista. Keep an eye on the AMD Game website for more.