We have got some news from Nvidia about the next gen. mainstream card,the 9600GT.

The first gen. Directx 10 Gpus,the G80,G84 and G86 will have finished their EOL process in February and the production will be stopped.

The 9600GT will be produced in 65nm process and is based on the ''D9P'' Gpu.It's expected to be announced in mid-February.
The card will be clocked at 500mhz/2000mhz (Gpu/Ram),and is expected to have 96 SP units and a 256bit wide memory bus.This mainstream card will have only one SLI connector,so it won't be supporting Triple-SLI.

It is also said that 9600GT will be pin compatible with the current 8800GT,this means the same PCB used with 8800GT can also be used with the 9600GT.This lowers production costs.

The performance of 9600GT will be somewhere between 8800GT and HD 3850.

The high end cards of the Geforce 9 series using the G100 Gpu (9800GTX) are expected to be announced in late March or early April.