Any news on the release date for the Geforce 9 series?

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/...rce_9m_series/

Nvidia Posts Specs Of GeForce 9M Series

Wolfgang Gruener
February 8, 2008 12:06


Santa Clara (CA) - Nvidia's next-generation mobile graphics aren't officially announced yet, but curious minds can already find some technical information about the new GPUs on Nvidia's website.
The company has listed brief specifications for the 9300M G as well as the 9500M GS. The lower-end will get you 16 stream processors, a core clock of 400 MHz and a memory clock of 600 MHz. The chip can be combined with up to 256 MB memory. Step up to the 9500M and then you'll receive 32 stream processors, a 475 core clock and a 700 Memory clock with up to 512 MB of buffer. If you look closely, you will notice that these specifications exactly mirror those of the 8400M GS and 8600M GT.
Asus apparently couldn't wait for Nvidia to announce these new GPUs and today unveiled two notebooks integrating these chips. The 9300M G replaces the 8400M in the company's 12.1" U6S model; the M51SN 15.4 notebook is available with the 9500M GS GPU.
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I'd like to see some impressive 9 series figured rather than the low end stuff

Does this date hold?

http://en.expreview.com/?p=223

9600GT launch date push back

January 23rd, 2008 by Jeff Graphics, NEWS, NVIDIA
9600GT launch date will be push back to Feb. 21. According to our sources, the delay is because some 9600GT in the shipments have voltage offset issues “during certain applications”.
NVIDIA need some extra time to fix the bug, so they decide to hold the shipment for a while. What’s more, the China-based factories now are running into Chinese New Year holiday so the launch date have to push back a week, to Feb 21st.

Looks like the 21st still stands. The 9800GX2 will be sometime in March.

:d

http://www.hothardware.com/articles/...3Way_Shootout/

If the blockbuster successes of games like World of Warcraft and Counterstrike, compared to the lack-luster reception of ultra-high-end titles like Crysis, have taught us anything, it is that the vast majority of PC gamers are not running games which are incredibly graphics intensive. As low-cost gaming consoles continue to steal many of these casual gamers away from the PC, component manufacturers for the PC platform are starting to think differently about how to approach the gaming market. As of late, we’re seeing a significant and refreshing shift towards lower-cost components for the mainstream market. Getting more performance for your dollar is now more exciting than getting the largest amount of raw performance, no matter what the cost.


This isn’t an entirely new concept, as CPU and GPU makers realize that their high-end components only make up a fraction of the total available market (TAM), and that the real money is made in large volume OEM deals for mid-range components. However, they’ve continued to push their high-end components in the same formula before, releasing high-end products first than letting the technology trickle down to varying price points over time. For this launch, something in the air might be changing, and NVIDIA feels there’s no bigger showcase of this change than the card we’re looking at today, the new GeForce 9600 GT.
The new GeForce 9600 GT is the first release of NVIDIA's GeForce 9 series that we’re taking a look at today. Typically, when NVIDIA launches a new lineup of graphics cards, we see a high-end component released first, which blows away previous benchmarks and instantly makes your current graphics card worthless. However, with the GeForce9 lineup, we’re seeing NVIDIA take a drastically different approach, releasing a mid-range card first. The first (and only) member of the GeForce9 series is, at the moment, available at a sub-$200 price point. While this certainly shouldn’t be perceived as NVIDIA giving up on the high-end of the market, the sea change we’re seeing in the PC gaming space simply cannot be denied.
The GeForce 9600 GT is a card that NVIDIA is promising will hit a sweet spot for gamers, offering excellent performance while simultaneously being easier on the wallet. In short, this is what the vast majority of gamers perennially ask for - rather than a massive three-way SLI setup that requires a kilowatt power supply and a small army of fans to keep cool. This, in our humble opinion, is where the industry should be heading; getting the most power-efficient performance possible, while keeping price and environmental aspects as primary concerns, not afterthoughts. Let's meet the GeForce 9600 GT.

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sooooooo............. should i buy a 9600GT or should i wait and get the 9800gtx?

i figure my choices would probably be 2 9600GT versus 1 9800gtx (pricewise that is, i figure the 9800gtx would be around $400?)

the evga step up plan might have been a good option except because of my location shipping costs are prhibitive...

I think you'd be better off going with the 9600GT for now ... just one. Then, when the 9800s come out ... you can decide whether or not you want to upgrade or get a second 9600GT.

do you know though if this card uses directx 10 or 10.1?

Nvidia Readies Dual-Chip, Single-Chip High-Performance Graphics Cards.

Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce 9800 GT Approaching
Category: Video
by Anton Shilov
[ 01/03/2008 | 10:34 PM ]

Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest designer of discrete graphics processing units (GPUs), reportedly plans to update its lineup of expensive graphics cards with at least two new offerings later in the quarter. The most powerful of the novelties will carry two graphics chips, whereas another will feature single-chip designs.
The new top-of-the-range graphics card by Nvidia is called GeForce 9800 GX2 which is based on two yet unknown 65nm graphics chips with 128 unified shader processors inside. The board, according to [H]ard|OCP web-site, will be 30% faster compared to Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra and will enable 4-way multi-GPU configurations. The novelty will have 256 stream processors in total, but will rely on driver support to demonstrate its potential, just like any multi-GPU solutions.
The least expensive solution – Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX – is projected to be released in late February or early March and is claimed to be based on one GPU. The new model 9800 GTX will replace existing GeForce 8800 GTX, thus, should offer performance on par with GeForce 8800 Ultra and support 3-way SLI configuration. In addition, there will be a the least expensive version of GeForce 9-series called GeForce 9800 GT and due in March or April.
Based on information reported earlier, Nvidia GeForce 9800-series graphics processors will support DirectX 10.1 feature-set along with powerful video encoding engine and post-processor.
Even though the new GeForce 9800 GX2 is projected to offer performance only 30% higher compared to Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra, whereas the new GeForce 9800 GTX should outperform the 8800 GTX by a similar margin, the new lineup represents a great threat to ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2.
At present Nvidia sells GeForce 8800 Ultra for $849 in retail, whereas the GeForce 8800 GTX costs about $549 - $649. Provided that the new solution by graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices offers performance of the GeForce 8800 Ultra, AMD’s new dual-chip graphics card will have to cost the same amount of money as the new GeForce 9800 GTX. Unfortunately, dual-chip configurations offer performance advantages over a single-chip ATI Radeon HD 3870 only in cases when its driver can take advantage of multi-GPU ATI CrossFireX technology. Therefore, in all other cases the GeForce 9800 GTX will be faster compared to ATI’s dual-chip solution, making it very hard for ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 to finds its place on the market.
Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.


http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...ics_Cards.html

why didn'tthey make the 9600gt 3-way sli capable, that is so annoying

Yep - NVs way of making mad money from power users.

don't know too much about sli as yet, but shouldn't it be possible to do some kind of software mod (bios/driver?) to allow it to be made 3-way?

No. 3-way sli has to be built (hardware) into the cards.

Look at the pics of the GT you posted. At the top of the card, there is only one sli connector. A card must have two of these connectors to 3-way.

oh...
ah well. i bought one evga 9600 gt to tide me over till the 9800s get out. i don't want 3way as yet but i want the option for future upgrade as i have a p5nt deluxe board