Nvidia renames 8800gs meet 9600GSO

[[XC] NetburstXE]

I disagree! Lately nVidia are very innovate with the products renaming.

I expect them to change their name into Renamedia.

[K404]

This is really ty. They could have cut the price on that card and maybe people would have bought them. But there is no reason in the world to just rename the card just to sell more. I think that a good argument for false advertising could be made in a court of law regarding this...

Sadly I suspect that the PCB revision makes it ok. Like... this years model of the Ford Mondeo or Vauxhall Astra- same **** with a few tweaks and a new price tag.

I wonder if two SLI connectors were left off the 8800GTS 512MB deliberately to help make a "new" card more appealing to the con(ned)sumer

[GAR]

I dont think nVidia cares about anyones little comments, such as the ones you guys are making, they are still king, it doesnt matter what they name their cards, if you want bad performance with AA/AF go ahead and buy ATi, and you can have a mid ranged card, if you want high end, nVidia is king and they sell, $300 for a 9800GTX is made to be put into tri SLi, thats why its so cheap, it was made to replace the 8800gts also bring triple sli.

[Yori1989]

I dont think nVidia cares about anyones little comments, such as the ones you guys are making, they are still king, it doesnt matter what they name their cards, if you want bad performance with AA/AF go ahead and buy ATi, and you can have a mid ranged card, if you want high end, nVidia is king and they sell, $300 for a 9800GTX is made to be put into tri SLi, thats why its so cheap, it was made to replace the 8800gts also bring triple sli.

If you really are that girl on the pic. I agree.
If you are not, i disagree.

Seriously, the naming of the Nvidia cards is just sad.
I'll be waiting for the RV770 or de GT200

[SafeFire]

Sounds to me like nvidia are trying to cover up that GT200 (or whatever is next) has turned out to be a poor chip. No?

[triple_A]

Lol i just got myself a 8800gs for my second pc..
Should have waited, then i would have got a 9600GSO..

[Sparky]

the O in GSO stands for "old"

[DeathReborn]

If you really are that girl on the pic. I agree.
If you are not, i disagree.

Seriously, the naming of the Nvidia cards is just sad.
I'll be waiting for the RV770 or de GT200

You are aware that both ATI/AMD & nVidia (hell even Intel) have a long history of renaming old technology to get better sales or keep it going longer.

[jbartlett323]

renaming old hardware is not the problem... its 50 different itterations of the same old hardware thats annoying...

[adamsleath]

Also, G92 will be reflashed with the 55nm processing in July. We can expect some new GeForce 9 cards will be launched with the new 55nm G92, which can lower the core temperature and rise the core clock.

http://en.expreview.com/2008/04/04/n...force-9600gso/

The soon-to arrive GeForce 9600 GSO will be a direct competitor to AMD's unreleased
Radeon HD 3830 graphics card and is alleged to fill the gap between the already existing 9600 GT and the upcoming 9600 GS.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/First...Up-84384.shtml

believe me when i say that consumers luv the illusion of choice....apparently