Hmm, what can we expect from the G92 nVidia cards?

We've been hearing a lot of speculation on how the new G92 architecture is going to go, when it comes to the "facelift" on the 8800 cards. However, what will this mean for performance as opposed to the current line of 8800 cards on the market? Will they really be faster for the price, or will we still wish that we'd regret not going for the first-gen 90nm cards that we have now? What can we expect for these last-minute GeForce cards?

Well one thing thas a cert is that the heatsinks will weigh a ton and most motherboards/systems will have thing in the way that will stop installastion of the dam things. So it will be a case of buying the mother board to fit the card.

It's a guarantee they won't live up to the hype!

sorry to be off topic when does intel price drop in what month?

I would get GEFORCE 8600 GTS 1GB for now

I dont know about GEFORCE 9800 but I guess it would be quicker and little better graphics

Intel just dropped prices, Q6600 is now £160.

Everything I've seen indicates that the new Geforce 8800GT will be somewhere between a current 8800GTS and 880GTX. Probably at a reduced price, which will make the 8800GTS, GTX and Ultra a bit cheaper. The next gen stuff comes in 2008 apparently.

Bit of a shame really - ATI cards just can't compete with Nvidia at the moment. I've a feeling that Intel will be jumping in as a competitor soon though... maybe a year or two away though.

G92==8800GT is coming November 12th.
8800GTS is End of Line.
8800GT will be somewhat replacing it, model-wise and performance-wise.
8800GT is 512MB and is supposed to be around 200-250$US.
The haven't announced any price drop for the GTX and Ultra models.

G98 is supposed to come on around either Q1 or Q2 2008, and is rumored to be either the 8900 series or the 9800 series.

Sometime People who just cant keep up with the Graphics techology or computer techology( for example there always new motherboard that come out better than other m/b or new cpu that are better than other cpu!)

there is always room for improvement. Been playing with shaders a lot recently, and theres no reason you shouldn't have the material flexibility of a regular renderer for pre rendered output. Better GPU's mean you can make more complex shaders, blend more kinds of bitmaps to produce nicer surfaces and transitions.

Been playing with sub surface scattering and ambient occlusion with hemispherical lighting a little. It's awesome stuff but combined it's not really for current gen hardware in games. Allthough I could see simpler cool casual games using it.

Drivers that don't work.

Large power bills :)

"Large power bills :) "

I'll drink to that :)

I've got a rich relative with shares in the power utility companies and I'm in the will :-).

Heh, well, now that they've announced that it's a PCI-E 2.0 card, that's bad news for those who spend $200+ on a 680i mobo, or $150 - $200 on a P35 mobo.

Heh, way to go Foxconn, expose the card to the world before it's really supposed to be revealed. I'm most certainly not looking forward to such a rushed card. Think I may go with an EVGA on this one, if Foxconn is this quick to release info.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/8365/index.html

Most certainly dumb for someone like them to do this so soon on us. Seems like Foxconn'll be one brand to avoid, if it's gonna go down like this.
May regret getting that P35 mobo from them, which I did.