9800GX2

[exhumedye]

Why doesn't Overclockers sell them? I'm just curious as I've seen them on most other online retailers but not on here, are they not very popular? Or are they too expensive? Or what? :s

From what I've read, and seen from video testing, they're almost as good, if not just as good as the GTX260, or is it the 280, I can't remember ;p

 

[Happy]

They are end of line products now, so they aren't being made. Any other e-tailers are just selling old stock. Nvidia's new dual GPU single card solution is the GTX295

 

[thepeganator]

They're just old now, that's it.

Same reason you cant buy an 8800gts or 8800gtx etx.

 

[exhumedye]

I never knew they were old lol, I always thought that they were a fairly new card.


Would it not be better to stop selling the GTX+ and keep selling the GX2? Considering the GX2 from what I've seen, does infact out perform the HD4870, so surely having yet another graphics card out doing ATI would just be a bigger bonus for Nvidia surely?

 

[Lightnix]

I never knew they were old lol, I always thought that they were a fairly new card.


Would it not be better to stop selling the GTX+ and keep selling the GX2? Considering the GX2 from what I've seen, does infact out perform the HD4870, so surely having yet another graphics card out doing ATI would just be a bigger bonus for Nvidia surely?

Except that it costs something a lot like twice as much to produce than a 9800 GTX+ (given that it has two PCB's, two chips, two sets of memory, two voltage regulator circuits, etc.), the GX2 cards (inc. GTX295) are never very economical to produce so they generally try to limit their lifespans as much as possible.