POINT OF VIEW, well known for its range of NVIDIA based graphics cards, is launching today a special version of the GeForce 8800GTX graphics card. The Point of View GeForce 8800GTX - EXO EDITION is factory-overclocked version of GeForce 8800GTX with 768MB DDR3 memory running at 1900MHz and a core clock of 600MHz. This card is available from today, please click here to view the complete card specifications.

You may not have final Vista drivers for your brand new GeForce 8800 video card, but you might be interested in this DX10 Cascades demo over at NZone. Minimum System Requirements: GeForce 8-Series, Windows Vista, ForceWare Drivers 100.64 or higher, 512MB system memory, 256MB video memory.

NVIDIA has released the following new GeForce 8800 Series drivers for use with Windows Vista 32/64bit version. For a full list of fixed issues, please view the release notes - 100.64.

Download: ForceWare 100.64 Vista 32bit (29.4 MB), ForceWare 100.64 Vista 64bit (41.9 MB)

NVIDIA's "ace-in-the-hole" is not a driver tweak: it's an unlocking of the G80 core. While the current offerings from NVIDIA using the G80 core, the 8800GTS and the 8800GTX, use an already impressive 96/128 unified shaders, respecfully, NVIDIA claims the G80 shipped with more. NVIDIA says that they will make the 8900GTX have 25% more shaders than the 8800GTX, meaning NVIDIA's DirectX 10 offering will have 160 shaders at it's disposal. The unlocked G80 core can be clocked at no higher than 630MHz on air, and 680MHz on water (according to NVIDIA). The Inquirer is guessing that this monster card will ship around the same time as ATI's R600.

Brea, California and Munich, Germany - February 12, 2007 - EVGA, a market leader and premier provider of high-performance graphics solutions and mother boards today an-nounced the release of two new NVIDIA e-GeForce 8800 GTS series graphics cards with 320MB of fast GDDR3.

EVGA is the first in the market to introduce the e-GeForce 8800 GTS Superclocked (P/N: 320-P2-N815-AR in the US and P/N: 320-P2-E815-AR in Europe). It has been carefully tuned and thoroughly tested to "Superclocked" at a blazing Core Clock speed of 576MHz and an amazing 1.7GHz Memory Clock. It has a recommended retail price of 349€ in Europe.

BFG Technologies, announced today the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB PCI Express graphics card factory overclocked to 550MHz core clok (vs. 500MHz standard) and GDDR3 memory running at 1.6 GHz. The BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB graphics card offers DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0 compatibility, HDCP and Microsoft Windows Vista support for a redefined gaming reality. The card comes backed with the legendary BFG True Lifetime Warranty, free 24/7/365 Technical Support and BFG custom T-shirt as part of this retail package. The BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB is available today at leading etailers and retail outlets throughout North America and Europe with suggested retail price of $349 USD.

If you haven't noticed, lots of NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB reviews have surfaced on top tech and hardware sites. Here's a list of all the major reviewers showing results from NVIDIA's new "budget" DX10 graphics card equipped with 320MB 320bit DDR3 memory.

[H]ard|OCP | Guru3D | Legit Reviews | MadShrimps | PcPerspective | iXBT (Russian) | AnandTech

TheINQ has a 8800GTS already and is willing to show us what it looks like before everyone else. The card looks quite similar to the 8800GTS 640MB. It has only 10 memory chips, each 32MB large. They are hynix hy5as573225a. It scores a solid 8800 points in 3DMark06

It seems that the recent trouble with NVIDIA's G80 driver is taking it's toll on more than just gamers. Dell was one of the first PC makers to promote the complete move to Windows Vista. However, it seems that all the PC's they sell with a G80 onboard, such as the XPS 7x0 series, still ship with Windows XP. This is a smart move on Dell's part, because they realize that their customers are not going to be happy with a beta driver running their brand new and expensive machine. This indicates one of two very bad things about NVIDIA's relationship with Dell. The first is that NVIDIA doesn't keep Dell "in the loop" about it's happenings, and will give Dell a G80 Vista driver when they make it. The second (and much worse) possibility is that NVIDIA keeps Dell "in the loop", and they themselves do not know when they will have a G80 driver for Windows Vista.

The picture below is Dell's high-end PC offerings, pay close attention to the operating system included.

Thermaltake Technology, world's leading brand in high-performance chassis, high-efficiency power supply and coolers, today announces the introduction of their first waterblock for Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX graphic card. TMG ND4 is a revolutionary product founded on Thermaltake's current TMG line of products to incorporate ultra-high performance with incredibly silent operation in order to achieve the ultimate gaming experience.

Many people are very unhappy with the lack of good/WHQL certified drivers for their very expensive G80 video cards. A thread on NVIDIA forums has been swarming with lots of flames and FUD toward the G80, and has been closed by one of their moderators. And so, instead of protesting the only (or so they are accusing) way NVIDIA really lets them, G80 users are trying to get enough research/evidence together to start a class action lawsuit against NVIDIA. Anyone who wants to help support this lawsuit, please visit NVidiaClassAction.org. NVIDIA Class Action wants evidence such as screen shots and box covers claiming Vista compatibility in some way.

The site motto is rather catchy.

The surprise we've all been waiting for - a $650 coaster.

NVIDIA today released new version of the ForceWare Vista 32/64bit drivers. This time the new BETA ForceWare version 100.59 should enable SLI support for DirectX9/OpenGL with GeForce 8800 GPUs. DX10 NVIDIA SLI support will be available in a future driver. Click here to read the full v100.59 Release Notes.

Download: ForceWare 100.59 Vista 32bit (33.4 MB), ForceWare 100.59 Vista 64bit (45.9 MB)

Finally, all GeForce 8800 users can download the latest Windows Vista 32bit/64bit BETA ForceWare drivers directly from NVIDIA. The bad news:
- DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available in a future driver
- DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available on January 31, 2007 in a new driver from NVIDIA

Download: ForceWare 100.54 Vista 32bit (29.4 MB), ForceWare 100.54 Vista 64bit (41.8 MB)

BFG Technologies, Inc., the leading North American and European NVIDIA supplier of advanced 3D graphics cards, motherboards, power supplies and other PC enthusiast products, announced today the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB Water Cooled Edition PCI Express graphics card. "Because of the huge cooling advantage offered by our custom water block designed by Danger Den, we are able to push this card to speeds faster than anything else on the market today." said Dean Brady, Sr. Director of Marketing for BFG Technologies. "To offer these speeds, every BFG Overclocked Water Cooled Edition graphics card is hand built and tested to ensure maximum performance and reliability."

G80 owners worldwide are probably wondering why they do not have even a beta driver for their high-end expensive graphics card. The reason is very simple: the driver is not stable. Games that are stable on any other video card using any other driver are great on Windows Vista. However, once the G80 was plugged in with the current driver, the test system was prone to frequent and unpredictable reboots. With Windows Vista launching in a matter of days, we sure hope NVIDIA can make a stable driver for the launch of Microsoft's brand new operating system.

The MC21 MOSFET coolers from Swiftech are small aluminum heatsinks designed to cool surface mount components such as mosfets. The product was tailored to fit the VCore mosfets on NVIDIA's G80 series graphics cards, but it can also be installed on motherboards mosfets, and any other IC application where passive cooling is desired. It is a perfect combination with Swiftech's VGA water-blocks and allows high-end graphic cards to operate cool and in virtual silence. The MC21 MOSFET heatsinks are available now for $9.95 MSRP directly from Swiftech or some of its retailers.

Munich, Germany - January 19, 2007 - EVGA, a leading provider of performance computing hardware, today announced the release of their EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX "BlackPeral" (P/N: 768-P2-E838-AR) NVIDIA technology-based 3D processor card. The new EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX "BlackPeral", in addition to EVGA's water cooling, is spec'd at an amaz-ing 626 MHz core clock with 2.0 GHz memory clock. The new graphics card will be avail-able at online retailers at a suggested retail price of € 799.

Finally, LaptopVideo2Go.com has leaked one of the most anticipated NVIDIA ForceWare drivers for GeForce 8800 Series working with Windows Vista 32/64bit. According to other users the driver performs really well, but be carefull because it is not WHQL certified. Use at your own risk. Click here to download the NVIDIA ForceWare X 100.30 Vista driver for 8800 Series of video cards.

According to VR-Zone, NVIDIA are set to release cheaper versions of their latest card, the GeForce 8800, during mid February. Based on the same core as the 8800GTS, the cards will run at exactly the same speeds but will only have half the memory size, with 320MB instead of 640MB. Because it is essentially the same it is likely to still be called the 8800GTS, but with a $100 price cut on this less powerful version bringing it to $299, it should be more capable of fighting back ATI's 1950 cards price-wise. Hopefully NVIDA will release its Vista drivers soon so gamers can take a look at DirectX 10.

NVIDIA has released an updated set of ForceWare drivers, version 97.92, for anyone using an 8800 based card on Windows XP. The official download is available here, there aren't too many fixes.

NVIDIA is demonstrating spectacular next-generation DirectX 10 gaming content running on NVIDIA GeForce 8800 graphics processors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. NVIDIA GeForce 8800 graphics processing units (GPUs) and NVIDIA nForce 680-series media and communications processors (MCPs) will demonstrate dozens of cutting edge PC games at the show including Microsoft's Games for Windows space in the Central Hall, Booth #7144, at CES.

Brea, California and Munich, Germany - January 2, 2007 - EVGA Announces new faster e-GeForce 8800's with ACS³ Cooling

EVGA, a leading provider of performance computing hardware, today announced the release of their e-GeForce 8800 GTX KO w/ ACS³ (P/N: 768-P2-N837-AR) and 8800 GTS KO w/ ACS³ (P/N: 640-P2-N827-AR) NVIDIA technology-based graphics card. The new 8800GTX KO ACS3, in addition to EVGA's patented ACS3 cooling, is spec'd at an amazing 626MHz core clock with 2.0GHz memory. The 8800GTS is spec'd at a groundbreaking 580MHz core, 1.7GHz memory. These new graphics cards will be available at online retailers at an MSRP of $649.99 for the 8800GTX KO ACS3, and $479.99 for the 8800GTS KO ACS3.

NVIDIA's new DirectX10 cards should finally have the potential to take advantage of their new technology after an announcement by the company that it plans to release a Vista driver for the 8800 cards towards the end of January. Because these cards have so far been unable to run DirectX10 applications, their performance in this area has been a mystery, but hopefully this will begin the next generation of Windows based gaming. The G80 driver has suffered two month delays and this should hopefully satisfy those who purchased the cards wanting to be DirectX10 ready - although they will still have to wait for the games to be released before they can reap the benefits it has to offer.

SPARKLE, the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today proudly announces Calibre P880+ OC Edition and Calibre P880 OC Edition, the world's first overclocked GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS graphic cards powered by high efficient TEC active cooler system. This new SPARKLE flagship card meets the need from PC enthusiasts who are looking for the next level of reality in gaming.

OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced their exciting return to the world of graphics cards. Leveraging a strong expertise in high performance overclocking memory and the unique needs of PC enthusiasts, OCZ is prepared to deliver a differentiated GPU solution to gamers and enthusiasts with the launch of the OCZ NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCI Express .