9800 Prices

SixDemons · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:37

nobody has comment upon this: 9800GX2 at €549 and 9800GTX at €399

this is madness...... NO, this is NVIDIAA!!!!!!!!! I meant Sparta!!!!!!!!!

skunksta · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:39

Ouch glad i never waited now if them price's are for real.

HeX · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:45

£300 for a mildly OC'd 8800GTS... gg

skunksta · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:48

OMG a new GTS also.

Gerard · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:51

new gts, probably an 8800gtx with a new sticker on the hsf and a bios crippling the clock speeds somewhat. =/

straxusii · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:54

A straight conversion from euro to GBP makes the gx2 £420+VAT!!!

That is insane, if that is the price why on earth have Nvidia bothered? The 3870X2 will just wipe the floor with it

peterattheboro · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:56

Having not been keeping tabs on current hardware... I thought you were talking about the Radeon 9800.

HeX · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:57

Yup, even if it is faster than an X2 (likely), you could still add another 3870XT for Tri-Fire and have cash in your pocket over the 9800GX2...

-iceblade^ · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:58

bad pricing move by nVidia IMHO; they should have dropped it... ATi will kill them this year if that happens...

not to mention R700

Lightnix · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:02

The card will cost €399 and it will have 768MB of memory.

And it has a 256-bit memory bus? Doesn't add up, it'd either have to be 192, 384 or 768-bit. Somebody somewhere is telling us all crap.

straxusii · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:05

HeX said:
Yup, even if it is faster than an X2 (likely), you could still add another 3870XT for Tri-Fire and have cash in your pocket over the 9800GX2...

Precisely what Im thinking, you can get that for £370 inc vat without too much trouble.

fornowagain · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:08

http://en.expreview.com/2008/03/06/9800gtx-will-hit-the-market-in-march-25/

Our source conformed that 9800GTX will hit the market in March 25. It is the second or third 9 series card by NVIDIA. While we can expect the 9800GX2 will be as high as 6XX USD, the price of 9800GTX still keeps unknown. We know a single 9800GTX only performs like its predecessor, but maybe it is born for 3-way SLI.

skunksta · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:14

When the end user gets the cards we will know the truth as to if or how much it beats the X2(think it will and i own a X2) but at them price's unless the GX2 is double the speed who will buy one other then fanboys.As for the new GTX might well beat the x2 but thats still a lot of money and i cant see it being much better than the current GTX.Sell old GTX for silly money to buy new GTX when a sli mobo and other old GTX would be better is sli and cheaper.

PS.now we know why the price's have droped so much on cards like the new GTS cause there making another one 3-4 months after the release of the 2nd gen GTS.

straxusii · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:16

There is no doubt the GX2 will be faster than the X2, the question was always about the price.

Robert · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:17

Sigh the GFX market is so dull right now.

We have cards using Xfire/SLI but that doesn't benefit us in every game gah.

Gerard · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:19

Yup the gfx market at the minute is very stale. Be nice to hear about true next gen cards instead of die shrunk cards.

sunlitsix · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:19

yeah, right now it seems that both nvidia and ATI are focusing on multiple-graphics solutions
ATI with CrossfireX and nvidia with tri-SLI

then there is ATI R700 and nvidia GT200 to look forward to :cool:

straxusii · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:25

Multi gpu is fine, once the game companies and MS realise this is the future the game support will be perfect.

Skeeter · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:45

straxusii said:
A straight conversion from euro to GBP makes the gx2 £420+VAT!!!

That is insane, if that is the price why on earth have Nvidia bothered? The 3870X2 will just wipe the floor with it

GX2 = £420
X2= £290
Difference = 44%

So if the prices work out at this, the GX2 will have to show atleast a 44% increase in performance to be a better option than the X2.....

I fear nVidia may have got this one wrong.

HeX · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:56

Skeeter said:
GX2 = £420
X2= £290
Difference = 44%

So if the prices work out at this, the GX2 will have to show atleast a 44% increase in performance to be a better option than the X2.....

I fear nVidia may have got this one wrong.

You can get X2's for less than that so the price gap is even larger...