[TheLonelySwedish]

I read the review at tbreak (sorry don't have the link, check [H]), and was pretty interested. If anyone has any news I'd really love to hear it. Thanks.

[assen]

Originally Posted by TheLonelySwedish

I read the review at tbreak (sorry don't have the link, check [H]), and was pretty interested. If anyone has any news I'd really love to hear it. Thanks.

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[Tim]

Originally Posted by TheLonelySwedish

I read the review at tbreak (sorry don't have the link, check [H]), and was pretty interested. If anyone has any news I'd really love to hear it. Thanks.

I think it is OEM only.

[TheLonelySwedish]

Actually, I don't use google that much, so I didn't, thanks for the tip. So no official release date or whatnot?

[Sxotty]

The card looks pretty nice, but it would look nicer at <150 I am hoping that a card that performs equally to the 9800 pro will be at <$150 price point soon.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Tim

I think it is OEM only.

I thought I read somewhere that nVidia was going to allow it into the retail channels.

[jimmyjames123]

Originally Posted by Sxotty

The card looks pretty nice, but it would look nicer at <150 I am hoping that a card that performs equally to the 9800 pro will be at <$150 price point soon.

Keep in mind that the 6800LE does seem to have a more robust feature set than the 9800 Pro, presumably with full support for SM 3.0, FP16 blending, etc. Also, most likely it has generally faster shader performance than the previous generation of cards. And it probably can be overclocked to match the performance of a stock 6800 Non-Ultra. So in this sense, $199 seems like a great deal, although $150 would be even nicer of course

[jvd]

Originally Posted by jimmyjames123

Keep in mind that the 6800LE does seem to have a more robust feature set than the 9800 Pro, presumably with full support for SM 3.0, FP16 blending, etc. Also, most likely it has generally faster shader performance than the previous generation of cards. And it probably can be overclocked to match the performance of a stock 6800 Non-Ultra. So in this sense, $199 seems like a great deal, although $150 would be even nicer of course

Hmm a 8 pipe line 6800le would not perform much better than a 9800pro and i doubt it will drop to 150$ that quickly .

Not like the 9800pro is going to be around that much longer

[TheLonelySwedish]

If you look at the review at Tbreak the LE is right on the 9800XT's tail the entire review and beats it in one or two benches I believe. They overclocked the core from 300 to about 400 or 425 and the memory to 800 mhz from 650. AT 400/800 it ran as fast as a 6800nu and pretty much owned the XT. So I guess that does beat the Pro, and I would actually expect the price to drop quickly. You can buy an 9600XT off of newegg for about 150 these days. I'm excited either way.

[assen]

And this is without Doom3 and its love for the NV4x core.

[jvd]

Originally Posted by TheLonelySwedish

If you look at the review at Tbreak the LE is right on the 9800XT's tail the entire review and beats it in one or two benches I believe. They overclocked the core from 300 to about 400 or 425 and the memory to 800 mhz from 650. AT 400/800 it ran as fast as a 6800nu and pretty much owned the XT. So I guess that does beat the Pro, and I would actually expect the price to drop quickly. You can buy an 9600XT off of newegg for about 150 these days. I'm excited either way.

I highly doubt your going to see 75 mhz out of the ram on normal bases unless they put on very very good ram.

As for doom3 its one game. I don't know if i would base my purchase off 1 game.


Right now you can get a 9800pro for 175 new. 125 used. I would find the 9800pro most of them are the r360 core which is the xt core and are doing about 430-440mhz