GX2 Rumours......

[Maverick2002]

Hi all

I’ve just started to build a new system and am looking to make it pretty future proof. I was planning on doing this by getting a geforce 7950 GX2 with a view to getting another a few months down the line when it starts to struggle.

Anyway, I’ve hit my first hurdle! The GX2 is out of stock pretty much out of stock everywhere I look! While doing some research I read an article that stated that the card was no longer in production by nvidia and that’s what is causing the stock issues. Anyone know if that’s correct?

Also, does anyone have any suggestions on an alternative or suggestions? Maybe wait for the 8 series cards being released on the 8th of Nov I believe? I don’t know much more about the 8 series other than its DX10 and out on that date

Thanks for reading

 

[FarFarAway]

Wait mate - it's not worth buying a card at this point in time.

 

[Maverick2002]

Is that because vista and DX10 are on the horizon?

 

[FarFarAway]

Is that because vista and DX10 are on the horizon?

Several reasons:

* DX10 cards will be very powerful

* DX10 and Vista on the way

* When DX10 cards come out the prices of DX9 cards will fall considerably

There's some more, but that's the gist

 

[Maverick2002]

Words of wisdom!

Cheers Kemp

 

[FragTek]

Just wait... only another week before G80 cards hit the shelves, speding money on a DX9 card for a new build right now would just just be ridiculous unless ur on a strict budget.

 

[Maverick2002]

know of a link where i can find more info about the G80? Thats has estimated price etc etc

 

[FragTek]

http://www.overclock3d.net/news.php...vidia_geforce_8800_specs_a_week_before_launch

There's a bit of info there. You can expect prices to range from about $600-700 during initial release I would imagine.

 

[NickS]

An 8800GTX can easily get 8k 06 @ stock. I'd wait for it.

 

[Rastalovich]

Frag - u`r gonna buy 1 aren`t u ?! I can see it coming >.<

 

[Ty07allstar]

He probably is. Go to wikipedia.com and type in the cards name and you can find some info on there about it.

 

[PV5150]

I'm gonna get one (G80); that's the reason I decided to cancel my 7900GTX order.

 

[Maverick2002]

will they need an nforce 680 motherboard, or will the 590 do the job?

and whats all the stuff about having 3 G80 cards installed at once?

 

[FarFarAway]

I expect that you'll be ok on any and all boards with a PCI-e x16 slot, though I don't doubt nVidia will tell you different

But yes NForce 680 with 3 PCI-e slots should be fun

 

[Maverick2002]

OK so....would it be possible to have G80's in SLI on the 590 board?

Sorry for all the dumba*s questions, still pretty new to this PC building thing

 

[Toxcity]

Sounds logical. :yumyum:

 

[Rastalovich]

U think the G8xxx will be the range that will-not see any 3rd parties create an AGP version anymore ?

 

[FragTek]

U think the G8xxx will be the range that will-not see any 3rd parties create an AGP version anymore ?

Nope, I think later on we'll have mad low-end G80 cards just for DX10, like an 8100 or something along those lines, which may very well be released in an AGP form. That's all purely guess-work however, maybe they won't. Maybe it's viva-la-PCI-E from here on out for nVidia.