Wednesday, March 12th 2008
GeForce 9800 GX2 Goes on Sale
NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card is now available to pre-order from shopblt.com, for a price of $598.41. Although the release date is still unconfirmed, the site has an estimated time of arrival as 03-22-2008, which could well be the official launch day. The actual card being listed is from PNY Technologies, although no extra details are given.
85 Comments on GeForce 9800 GX2 Goes on Sale
They look at another 150-200 to do the SLi route, and add 150 for a cheap quality SLI board to 500 and you get 650, thats why Nvidia can charge it because those without SLI boards equals the vast majority
from tomshardware, id trust this myself, at least he has seen the product already and the papers ect for it
Most boards dont have full 16x slots for whatever reason (16/4 8/8 etc)
i follow the best - i dont give a hoot who makes the board or what chipset, as long as it OC's my hardware. i prefer Nvidia atm, but i cant SLI on an intel board can i.
Its simple - Nv wants licensing fees for any chipset that can use SLI, and for max profits they want to own the chipsets too.
honestly think about it, if you could run SLI on a Intel board, would anyone still buy Nvidia chipsets on their mobos??? For stability and OCing Intel boards far surpass anything that Nvidia can do. I honestly think that if Nvidia opened support for SLI on a intel chipset, Nvidia wouldnt be making chipsets anymore
EDIT: after lookin around for awhile, it seems the only hacked drivers were released for the 965/975 chipsets only. People pretty much gave up after that.
Also id by an Nvidia board over any other chipset, just because I love anything Nvidia, heck i bought an Nvidia coffee cup for 40 bucks because it said Nvidia, but im sure im the minority, but if anyone else is wearing a custom Nvidia t-shirt let me know, cause mine is black with the Nvidia logo on the back and the way its meant to be played on the front :D