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Originally Posted by ian209
well the Geforce 9800GX2 is gonna be $600+, and it's not much difference from an 8800Ultra from what i've heard
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I'm willing to take a little heat from you guys and venture into the conspiracy theory realm. I'm going to say that maybe nvidia is purposefully weakening the card, just like intel purposely keep the clock low on the 8000 series cpus by cutting the size of the heat sinks in half.
Point 1: They are forbidding the various card manufacturers from overclocking the fairly moderately clocked 9800GX2 yet some manufacturers are going adhead and doing it.
Point 2: Nivida absorbed 3DFX and all its SLI and multi gpu on 1 board experience, its patents and far more of 3DFX engineers than ATI. Also the team writing the Nvidia drivers for the most part superior to ATI's, Especially of late.
Point 3: By keeping the new gpu weak it doesn't make their previous card lineup obsolete. Once the marketplace has sold more 8000 series cards (particularly the g80 8800GTX, Ultras and OLD GTS), they can lift the ban on Superclocking the cards, and release far superior drivers that give huge performance increases for the 9800GX2 card. This is a great idea business wise as it lets them sell off their old cards for big dollars still.
So am I smoking crack or do any of these points have an inkling of sanity?
Last edited by PCXL-Fan; March 11th, 2008 at 05:31..