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NVIDIA 790i Chipset and GeForce 9800 GX2 Launched

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-eat-these-chips-with-dip dept.

MojoKid writes "NVIDIA has launched their next generation desktop chipsets for the Intel platform today, now known as the nForce 790i and 750i SLI families, along with a new high-end graphics card dubbed the GeForce 9800 GX2. The new motherboard chipset offering brings support for DDR3 to the NVIDIA platform for Intel's Core 2 processors with 1600MHz Front Side Bus support, as well as Gen2 PCI Express for multi-GPU graphics and NVIDIA's new ESA health monitoring/control functions. Performance with the new platform looks fairly impressive in both workstation and gaming scenarios."

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  1. Re:New toys! by Nichotin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are still getting a lot of bang for the buck by going 8800GT or 8800GTS instead. 9800GX2 performs much better, but I mean, the price seriously does not justify it this time. Heck, even the 9600GT will give you decent gaming performance these days, and that is a card almost anyone can afford.

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  2. in financial news by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Interesting

    NVDA shares are down over 50% and are trading at 14 times earnings. Their balance sheet is beautiful, though. No debt on the books!

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=nvda

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    1. Re:in financial news by Crazyswedishguy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No debt is not always a good thing. Healthy debt (good interest rate) is an indication of a stable company with a growth strategy. Most large companies have debt, even if they have lots of liquid assets (cash) lying around. Debt is the (usually cheap) way to raise capital without diluting ownership, and capital is necessary for growth, especially for a company like Nvidia that most likely has a lot of R&D.

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  3. New cards are great and all... by pathological+liar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... but hey NVIDIA, when can we get purevideo support for Linux? I appreciate you folks fixing the black window bug and all, but having accelerated x264 would be incredible.

  4. As is the names of cards wasn't confusing enough.. by ZipR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now Nvidia has taken the name of one of ATI's best and most memorable cards, the 9800. Is it intentional?

  5. Re:Will it run... by Kelz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    50FPS at high settings with a resolution of 1920x1200. I'll bet it'll run decently on very high with 1280x1024.