9800GT in stock at newegg

looks like only the Gigabyte model is a 55nm version

Might consider it if they were in the $120~130 range
 
Another thing is to stop the 8 and 9 series coexistence... I would rather see a full 9 serie with no 8 series in the mix to confuse users. This is rather a nice move.

 
Xilikon said:
Another thing is to stop the 8 and 9 series coexistence... I would rather see a full 9 serie with no 8 series in the mix to confuse users. This is rather a nice move.

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Agreed, they have saturated the market with too many different video cards in which performance wise in are in the same range.
 
wow this is a waste of R&D and shelf space. Why release this when the 9800GTX+ is available as well at the same time?
 
BX_TECH_GOD said:
wow this is a waste of R&D and shelf space. Why release this when the 9800GTX+ is available as well at the same time?
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Did you ever consider that these are trial runs for Nvidia on 55nm tech ?

Take old and tested technology, put it on 55nm tech to practice for the new tech i.e. GT200's transition to 55nm, so that there are no problems later.


@needmorecarnitine - How do you know its 55nm ?
 
needmorecarnitine said:
Supposedly only the 55nm versions are HybridPower compatible
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Naw... nVidia is just limiting it to their more recently released cards to try to encourage people to buy them.

According to nVidia, all of the following cards support HybridPower: GeForce GTX 280, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce 9800 GT. Of these, the GTX280, 9800GX2, GTX260, and 9800GTX are known to be 65nm.

All of the 9800GT cards should support HybridPower. It's a shame that nVidia won't allow it on 8800's just because they want people to waste money "upgrading".
 
dhc014 said:
Naw... nVidia is just limiting it to their more recently released cards to try to encourage people to buy them.

According to nVidia, all of the following cards support HybridPower: GeForce GTX 280, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce 9800 GT. Of these, the GTX280, 9800GX2, GTX260, and 9800GTX are known to be 65nm.

All of the 9800GT cards should support HybridPower. It's a shame that nVidia won't allow it on 8800's just because they want people to waste money "upgrading".
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You both appear to be right. What appears to going on here is this. There are going to be two 9800GT's in the beginning, at least until the old G92 cores dry up. Some of the 9800GT's will be just rebranded older 8800GT 65nm G92's which don't have Hybrid Power support and it's not because they can't. That's just the way they were engineered. Then there are the 9800GT 55nm G92b Core cards which were built to support Hybrid Power. That's what I've got out of a few things I've read on it anyway .....

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Nvidia_First_55nm_Desktop_Graphics;_GeForce_9800_GT/5714.html
 
how do these hold up against the 4850/4870?
i do like the ASUS 4850/4870 due to the cool heatsinks though much nicer then those
 
So I see the 8800 and 9800 GT has the same specs, except the 9800 GT only supports Open GL 2.1 which is very disappointing and is priced higher than the 8800 GT. So far the GeForce 9 series has been very disappointing, why did NVIDIA even bother doing this.

If you have a 8800 GT and want to upgrade to 9800 GT then don't bother, you probably won't even see any difference at all.
 
Why is it not just called 8800GT+ ?

Why must nVidia persist with this stupid STUPID naming system.

 
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