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***** NVIDIA GT 240 Launch *****

How do you figure that?
I've always liked low price cards that aren't totally ****. Wonder how they OC?
A cheapish upgrade for friends with integrated/rubbish cards... Well, could do with a few £s off on every model.

Edit: If you were buying one of those, absolutely no reason to go for the Gainward ones at all? :confused: Strange pricing?
Lol, the 1gb Gainward... You could just go out and get a 4850... :D
 
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Better price than I was expecting. A very good upgrade from onboard or for a HTPC/light gaming machine etc. I don't really care about PhysX.
 
Rroff said:
They are updated 200 series 40nm DX10.1 cores - performance wise slightly faster than the 9600GT.
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They look to be a little slower than the 9600 GT overall from here.
http://techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GeForce_GT_240/30.html

Although they do catch up to it in Vantage for all that's worth:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-geforce-gt-240-review-test/13

Still, not too shabby for the price (compared to the GT220 at least), although some of the models do come a bit close to the comfortably faster 4770, 4850, 9800 GT and GTS 250 products.
 
Martini1991 said:
It's cards like these that prevent the 5870's being rin more supply.
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Yep, it sure looks like Nvidia are being smart here. Chuck out 40nm variants with minimal work needed to get DX10.1 out the door and flood TSMC with orders for them, so that no capacity to make ATI's chips.

That way can delay people buying them until own product is out. Wander if Nvidia have bough TSMC's capacity to allow them to get a real launch of the next cards out the door.?
 
Rroff said:
Weird they were supposed to be about that much faster than the 9600GT not that much slower...
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I think it's just a case of the cards being clocked too low. I mean given their specifications, they're more or less 8800 GS's, allowing for some discrepancies.
 
mdjmcnally said:
Yep, it sure looks like Nvidia are being smart here. Chuck out 40nm variants with minimal work needed to get DX10.1 out the door and flood TSMC with orders for them, so that no capacity to make ATI's chips.

That way can delay people buying them until own product is out. Wander if Nvidia have bough TSMC's capacity to allow them to get a real launch of the next cards out the door.?
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Isn't that anti competetive?
 
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ATi have been hoarding all the chips for their 5970's though, so what about that, as surely thats wrong as well, upping the prices of their 5800's saying they couldn't do em, when they could, they were just keeping the chips for their 59's.
 
Nvidia are preventing ATI from manufacturing chips.
ATI were keeping cores for there flagship (Which still hasn't been confirmed, nor has pricing)
 
Martini1991 - Give it a rest. If you've nothing constructive or relevant to say then please say nothing at all!
 
Nvidia are bringing out 40nm GPU's which give no performance increase over current cards?
Come on..
The second one's rumour, it makes business sense, but it's bad for the consumer, unless the price is right, which would mean enthusiasts would be happy, still a bad move.
 
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