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Affordable DX10 - GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-bit-more-than-nine dept.

mikemuch writes "While ATI still hasn't released a DX-10-capable graphics card, Nvidia today already released its affordable SKUs, in descending price and performance order the GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce 8600 GT, and 8500 GT. The GTS costs $200-230, the GT from $150-170, and the 8500 reaching down to the $90 range. The architecture for the new GPUs is the same as for the 8800 line, but with lower clocks and fewer stream processors."

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  1. DX10? What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why are we still designing GPUs for Windows? It's like the Slashdot crowd hates Microsoft for everything but still clings to them for their computer games. Screw DX10, ask for Open GL 3.0 already!

  2. Who cares? by GuyverDH · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why would we want DX10? It only runs under Vista at this time, and there's no way any serious gamer is going to switch to Vista. It's too fucking unstable, slow and DRM ladened to the point that you can't manipulate files without waiting for days to finish.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/vista_fore nsics_2/

    days to delete files? lucky vista didn't corrupt the drive? looking for drm bits on every file access? good god, what kind of fucked up shit is this?

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    Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?