Geforce 8600 Details Revealed

Just read this on engadget...very good news!

If you want to join the ranks of the cool kids with one of those nifty DirectX 10 cards for promoting Vista shenanigans, but don't want to sell any vital internal organs to purchase a GeForce 8800 GTX or one of those upcoming ATI R600 cards, then you might be happy to hear that the price of entry is about to get a whole lot cheaper. Details of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 8600 series have been revealed, with the 8600 GT going for roughly $150 and the 8600 Ultra demanding a $180 pricetag. Considering the fact that an 8800 GTX will cost you about $600 at the moment, this is good news indeed. The specs aren't anything to sneeze at, either, with both 8600 cards being built with an 80nm process and 300 million transistors. The GT runs at 350MHz, with 256MB of RAM to call its own, while the Ultra sports a 500MHz core, with 512MB of memory. The launch is supposedly timed to coincide with the R600's launch, will certainly steal a bit of ATI's thunder.

The only downside to this is that ill have to wait a couple more weeks to build my new system because these cards arent due out until early march.  Well worth the wait though.

Full story:http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/nvidias-geforce-8600-series-brings-dx10-without-breaking-the-ba/

Source: www.endgadget.com

7600U will not be serious threat... its performance will be arround 7900gt. R600 core will totally demolish G80 if the spec are right and that ATI have tweaked the drivers. tutejaa

7600U will not be serious threat... its performance will be arround 7900gt. R600 core will totally demolish G80 if the spec are right and that ATI have tweaked the drivers. tutejaa

[QUOTE="tutejaa"]7600U will not be serious threat... its performance will be arround 7900gt. R600 core will totally demolish G80 if the spec are right and that ATI have tweaked the drivers. 9mmSpliff

Just read this on engadget...very good news!

If you want to join the ranks of the cool kids with one of those nifty DirectX 10 cards for promoting Vista shenanigans, but don't want to sell any vital internal organs to purchase a GeForce 8800 GTX or one of those upcoming ATI R600 cards, then you might be happy to hear that the price of entry is about to get a whole lot cheaper. Details of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 8600 series have been revealed, with the 8600 GT going for roughly $150 and the 8600 Ultra demanding a $180 pricetag. Considering the fact that an 8800 GTX will cost you about $600 at the moment, this is good news indeed. The specs aren't anything to sneeze at, either, with both 8600 cards being built with an 80nm process and 300 million transistors. The GT runs at 350MHz, with 256MB of RAM to call its own, while the Ultra sports a 500MHz core, with 512MB of memory. The launch is supposedly timed to coincide with the R600's launch, will certainly steal a bit of ATI's thunder.

The only downside to this is that ill have to wait a couple more weeks to build my new system because these cards arent due out until early march.  Well worth the wait though.

Full story:http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/nvidias-geforce-8600-series-brings-dx10-without-breaking-the-ba/

Source: www.endgadget.com

 

 

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Your link to the article on how Lvl505 got a R600 and benched it has been proven false.

[QUOTE="tutejaa"]7600U will not be serious threat... its performance will be arround 7900gt. R600 core will totally demolish G80 if the spec are right and that ATI have tweaked the drivers. habitat

[QUOTE="tutejaa"]7600U will not be serious threat... its performance will be arround 7900gt. R600 core will totally demolish G80 if the spec are right and that ATI have tweaked the drivers. 9mmSpliff