NVIDIA’s new flagship GeForce 9800 X2 graphics card, has seen a lot of buzz lately. But it’s bad advertising because it’s been associated with lots of system crashes. Bit-tech tested it thoroughly and the results are simple: “a number of heat-related crashes, hard locks and instabilities”. Apparently because of heating (90+ degrees Celsius), the motherboard enters an automatic self-protect mode.
In January there were rumors of a new NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2, that was supposed to work on 65nm technology and should support Quad SLI. The same rumors were expecting it to be 30% faster than a 8800 Ultra mainly because of the 1GB frame buffer, two PCBs, two 65nm GPUs and 256 Stream Processors.
Today we got some sort of a confirmation to all these, because packed nicely under the Albatron logo is the new GeForce 9800 GX2. It was spotted today during CeBit 2008 but no one from Albatron cared to give us more info regarding price or availability. We’ll update soon with more info.
via Engadget
Gamers around the world with no budget for a SLI system should be happy to know that NVIDIA released a new line up of graphic cards and the first to be announced is NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT that offers the best performance for the $189 price it’s going to cost.
GeForce 9600 GT is an upgraded version of the 8600 GT, that improves the core speed from 540MHz to 650MHz while the memory clock speed went up from 1.4 GHz to 1.8 GHz and doubles the onboard stream processors to 64. It will ship with 512MB of video memory and dual dual-link DVI video outputs and should be already available today.
This is a great solution for gamers that can’t spend that much on a graphic card.
