9800 Gx2 $450.nice Pics!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlindChild]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/...force_9800gx2/

The expected price: around $449 US. Expected announcement date: February 14, 2008.

[96redformula]

Bah, we need a new generation cards, not two old cards joined with a SLI bridge.

[BlindChild]

Ya I know,theres a serious lack of innovation going on in Nvidia HQ these days..........Well execpt for adding an optical out and some form of HDMI/Display Port

[nike]

theres a little misspell in that article or am i totally wrong? below the last pic it says"7950GX2 quad sli setup" but the cards are deffo not 7950gx2s but rather the 9800gx2?

[BlindChild]

theres a little misspell in that article or am i totally wrong? below the last pic it says"7950GX2 quad sli setup" but the cards are deffo not 7950gx2s but rather the 9800gx2?

Ya deffo a mistake.Gold Star for you in the post

[BulldogPO]

Old news.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Well at least $450 is a decent pricetag, which probably come from:

8800GT - $249
(+$100)
8800GTS - $349
(+$100)
9800GX2 - $449

I had guessed it could well have gotten a MSRP of $499 too since compared to a 8800GTS (G92) it looks a bit better bang for the buck card as the GTS is only barely faster than GT by roughly 15% or so, making it also barely faster than a 8800GTX usually but is at least 10% or a bit more slower than 8800 Ultra. Provided the 30% faster than 8800 Ultra claim is true it would be a good 40%+ faster than the GTS and 65%+ faster than a 8800GT which is a good thing even when comparing 8800GT SLI which would be slightly expensier too and taking into account GX2 is only "one card solution" (physically, as you don't really get 2 separated cards). That remains to be seen if the 30% over Ultra claim is actually true and I'm pretty sure it won't be true for every title.

[squilliam]

Well at least $450 is a decent pricetag, which probably come from:

8800GT - $249
(+$100)
8800GTS - $349
(+$100)
9800GX2 - $449

I had guessed it could well have gotten a MSRP of $499 too since compared to a 8800GTS (G92) it looks a bit better bang for the buck card as the GTS is only barely faster than GT by roughly 15% or so, making it also barely faster than a 8800GTX usually but is at least 10% or a bit more slower than 8800 Ultra. Provided the 30% faster than 8800 Ultra claim is true it would be a good 40%+ faster than the GTS and 65%+ faster than a 8800GT which is a good thing even when comparing 8800GT SLI which would be slightly expensier too and taking into account GX2 is only "one card solution" (physically, as you don't really get 2 separated cards). That remains to be seen if the 30% over Ultra claim is actually true and I'm pretty sure it won't be true for every title.

toooo many percentages... I stopped reading mid-paragraph. Too early man. Just too early.

[OBR]

welcome to the last week .... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=171860

[systemviper]

Man, I don't know about anyone else but I am excited, i love the idea of the 9800gx2 especially in SLI. Yea next gen or not, if it's fast and not super expensive, then count me in..... Think i might just sell my 2 PNY 8800 GTS's 320 right now while they are at their peek to get me one when they come out.....

[JamesAvery22]

Ya I know,theres a serious lack of innovation going on in Nvidia HQ these days..........Well execpt for adding an optical out and some form of HDMI/Display Port

Hard to blame them. If the competition just isn't there then its pretty bad business to rush new products out only to push your old ones out of the lime light. If I were nvidia I'd keep my R&D going at full steam but hold back innovative products until it someone else came along and beat my current product.

[Cooper]

I beleive it's optical in for HDMI audio output.

[Shaggy]

I'm excited about this.

Does announcement day = release day? This card will be released right at the time of my stepup end.

[disruptfam]

can u run these in tri-sli and quad sli???

[AliG]

Bah, we need a new generation cards, not two old cards joined with a SLI bridge.

totally agree, I mean the r700 also looks interesting, but still, that's just using a two gpus (and I hear the design will be based off the rv670's design ). I want to see g100 and what that can do, that should be promising

[ak_47_boy]

Display port is HORRIBLE, i mean 100% garbage crap. It is no better than HDMI, same garbage style connector to. We will just have another terrible useless digital video format infected with useless DRM. At least UDI supports a higher resolution.

Just to force you to get new hardware, what a scam. Nothing but a scam.

[Fixxxer]

Bah, we need a new generation cards, not two old cards joined with a SLI bridge.

QFT.