Tuesday, March 10th 2009
NVIDIA OEM GeForce G 100 Series Cards Launched
NVIDIA today stealthy placed on its website the rebranded cards that are going to take over the old GeForce 9 series in the OEM market. Announced without big PR, and not available for individual purchase, the OEM GeForce GTS 150, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GT 120 and GeForce G 100 series are the well known GeForce 9800 GTX+, GeForce 9600 GSO, GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce 9400 GS under new names. All cards are DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1 compatible, and use PCI-Express x16 interfaces. The GeForce GTS 150 has a 256-bit memory interface, 1 GB of GDDR3 memory and 738 MHz/1836 MHz/1000 MHz core/shader/memory clock speeds. The "new" GeForce 9600 GSO has a 192-bit memory interface, 768 MB of RAM and 500 MHz/1250 MHz/ 500 MHz core/shader/memory clocks. Тhe 9500 GT resembling GeForce GT 120 sports 128-bit memory interface, up to 512 MB DDR2 config, and 500 MHz/1400 MHz/500 MHz core/shader/memory clock speeds. Finally the GeForce G 100 look-alike features 64-bit memory interface, 512 MB DDR2 memory and 567 MHz/1400 MHz/500 MHz core/shader/memory clock speeds.
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39 Comments on NVIDIA OEM GeForce G 100 Series Cards Launched
But yes... very silly...
i would bet you that you see these cards online for sale OEM then within a short time some companys start selling them "retail" as happened with the tnt vanta and tnt2 m64 cards(both where orignal to be OEM only cards)
Yeah i guess you are right, though that thought did cross my mind, its only a matter of time before someone sells the cards as "the brand new geforce series!"
and this happens horribly with all the crap cards, the radeon VE was orignaly ment to be OEM only(horrible cards!!)
gonna lulz at the MORONS that "upgrade" to a "new card" and then get the same or worse perf and cry online about it :P
not everyone is a computer nerd like you and me
like my buddy who "upgraded" his 8800gt to a 9600gt because 9600 is higher then 8800 ofcorse ROFL
99% of the people who buy this know jack-shit about the techical details. Because thats just how they are, and they just dont really want to give a damn. Thats not in their interest. This is what Nvidia is taking advantage of, instead of actually innovating.
Regardless nvidia (and subvendors) get their money.
Nvidia -> :nutkick: <- consumers
people who cant be bothered to learn anything about the computer they use/buy, they just want it to work and treat it like a magic box.
they should all get mac's then they could blame apple when it breaks :D
Was fun bashing Nvidia for rebranding the 8800GT.. twice.. now I just dont care anymore about them or their marketing.
The 8800GS which was renamed the 9600GSO which was replaced by the 256bit is now being replaced by the 192bit original
WTF, its got to be a error
why would they have even bothered doing the crappy 256bit version of the GSO then, to get some quick money.
its like a circle of doom T.T
and ANOTHER 9800GTX+, I mean, I have seen some stupid stuff, but heavens sake, I guess this is so vendors can slap some new stickers on and say, lets sell this.
Nvidia is coming out to ATI and saying, we got nothing, we can't compete with you on the low end.
and Nvidia cannot compete with ATI with any of their cards under the 9600GSO now, they just can't,
and whoever said that the GTS250 was different than the 9800GTX+ lied, cause they're on newegg now, and the nearly every single one of them is the same as their 9800GTX+ equivalents PCB and all, a few even cost more than their 9800GTX compainions and the prices on the 1GB+ version all suck.
Nvidia better shape up soon or ATI is gonna run all over em just like Nvidia did to ATI a while back.
www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048%20106793024&name=GeForce%20GTS%20200%20Series
Prices are ok too IMO, $159 for a slightly overclocked 1GB card seems about right to me. $10 cheaper than the average HD4850 1 GB, while at the same time is faster.