The first wave of Radeon 4850 boards is already on store shelves, with prices that already are below the MSRP of $199. In Europe, we have seen prices of 130 Euro – which is about $200 and quite surprising, as prices in Europe always have been higher than in the U.S. in the past.
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A very smart man at Intel once told me that when designing a microprocessor you can either build a new architecture, or move to a smaller manufacturing process, but you don’t do both at the same time. The reason you don’t do both is because it significantly complicates the design, validation and manufacturing processes - [...]

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Sure, you’ve already heard the news (and probably seen reviews) of AMD’s Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 card - we’ll have our own review ready very soon.  NVIDIA apparently got the news as well and decide to try and put some additional pressure on AMD to perform.
The answer: GeForce 9800 GTX+.
What the hell?

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Nvidia has informed their partners of a new GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card that will offer better competition against the ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card. GeForce 9800 GTX+ will be clocked at 738MHz core and 1836MHz shader compared to 675/1688MHz for the current 9800 GTX card. It will be priced at $229 while the [...]

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New ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition delivers high-performance, quiet computing
HONG KONG – Jun. 10, 2008 – ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd., an award-winning NVIDIA AIC, today unleashes its liquid-cooled, near-silent single GPU graphics card – the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition. The new ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition is the staple of quiet [...]

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Early last month Nvidia released the GeForce 9800 GTX which today stands as the fastest single GPU graphics card money can buy.
With an average retail price of $300-350, the GeForce 9800 GTX may not have been revolutionary in terms of performance, but it’s still a reasonably good value solution for those willing to spend a [...]

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In this article, [H]ardOCP looks at how a 9800 GTX in a Single, 3-Way and Quad SLI using their real world gamplay techniques to see how much any of these configurations improves one’s gameplay.
In this evaluation we are going to utilize three GeForce 9800 GTX video cards, as well as two GeForce 9800 GX2 video [...]

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