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Nvidia Promotes the Middle Class, Launches GeForce 9 Series With Cheaper Card

by Nick Breckon, Feb 21, 2008 5:10pm PST

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Graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia today launched a line of products with a midrange card for the first time in its history as a company.

The GeForce 9600 GT, the first card in the GeForce 9 series, will retail for $169-189 according to HardOCP.

Nvidia typically debuts new card lineups with pricey top-of-the-line models. The sub-$200 9600 GT is seen as a significant departure for the company, at a time when the PC gaming industry has taken flak for being too complex and costly for consumers to follow.

Earlier this week Nvidia became a founding member of the PC Gaming Alliance, a consortium of PC-invested companies with the goal of streamlining PC gaming and promoting the platform.

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So when is the 9800 going to hit and is there any indication of price?

Feb 21, 2008 5:53pm PST

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So when is the 9800 going to hit and is there any indication of price? : Tincan
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- Yeah thats what I wanna know. : aznboysix
- I too would like to know. Very interested to see if there is a huge performance increase : byorn

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god i despise hardocp and their apples to oranges comparisons. they need to stop telling people how to interpret playability and just let us think for ourselves.

i'll wait till a more reputable source spits some benchmarks out.

but yeah, X600 line in the nvidia camps have always been the bottom of the barrels for the specific line, i'm guessing the $300, $400, $500 and supergayediti0on $600 versions are coming sooner than later.

Feb 21, 2008 5:33pm PST

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god i despise hardocp and their apples to oranges comparisons. they need to stop telling people how to i... : araczynski
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Wow. Those new 9600gt are as fast as the 8800gt.

Feb 21, 2008 5:16pm PST

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Wow. Those new 9600gt are as fast as the 8800gt. : razlebol
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  Only at certain resolutions/settings. Performance wise the 9600gt competes more with the HD3870 and falls... : doc.solo
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    So its not really the huge departure the article claims if what you are saying is true. In fact it sounds... : Lightzout
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      This is a departure for nVidia because they are branding this the 9-series whereas traditionally they lea... : doc.solo
      
      Not entirely true; it's a new chip (G94) based on the G92 chip, with fewer transistors and a smaller die-... : mn3m0n1c
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  Nice to see some competetive pricing on new video daughtercards. Especially with the background griping a... : Wilhuf
  - How is it a daughter-card? It's the primary video card, not an add-on to it. : deadhorse

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Hopefully the stores will actually use that price. I remember with the 85/86 cards Best Buy and Circuit City didn't follow the prices Nvidia promised from what I saw.

Feb 21, 2008 5:16pm PST

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Hopefully the stores will actually use that price. I remember with the 85/86 cards Best Buy and Circuit C... : NFXFSX
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- Best Buy is terrible for video card pricing. The stuff at my local store is usually $100-150 more than s... : airmaus

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I can't wait for the 9800 series to take on Crysis. I'm holding off on upgrading till then.

Feb 21, 2008 5:38pm PST

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I can't wait for the 9800 series to take on Crysis. I'm holding off on upgrading till then. : Kazomir
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- Yeah, I'm interested how those will run Crysis... : code-e255

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congrats shack, top linked story here (as of 11 PM CST on 2/21): http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=NVDA

Feb 21, 2008 9:08pm PST

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congrats shack, top linked story here (as of 11 PM CST on 2/21): http://finance.google.com/finance?client... : kill9
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I'm excited and glad this came out. I was about to shell out for an 86 series... I might as well save my moola and get one of these cards! This will be a nice step up from a 7900GS. Exciting news my friends, exciting news... now I must do laundry.

Feb 21, 2008 8:06pm PST

I'm excited and glad this came out. I was about to shell out for an 86 series... I might as well save my ... : Reeves

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Hmm, I wonder if the old ATI 9700 and 9800's will be mistakenly bid upon on ebay.

Feb 21, 2008 6:05pm PST

Hmm, I wonder if the old ATI 9700 and 9800's will be mistakenly bid upon on ebay. : krazy_yak

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Read as: we bought AGEIA PhysX and we need time to integrate them into our top end cards. Also, buy 3 8800's before our next model comes out!

Feb 21, 2008 5:26pm PST

Read as: we bought AGEIA PhysX and we need time to integrate them into our top end cards. Also, buy 3 880... : astonish