[GeForce.com] nVidia releasing GTX460 v2

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Vesku

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Seems NVIDIA has been pretty diligently testing and hoarding the dies not quite good enough for their current line up. Selling them in the lull between generations is a way for them to reduce the amount of chips they have to completely write off.
 

exar333

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A GTX 460 is still a great GPU for stores like BB that stell Geforce FX SKUs (not kidding). If the price is right, these would be OK for many people...
 

happy medium

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This has been out for weeks. Well the news that is.

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Seems NVIDIA has been pretty diligently testing and hoarding the dies not quite good enough for their current line up. Selling them in the lull between generations is a way for them to reduce the amount of chips they have to completely write off.

So it will be a "SE"/"LE" product?
 

Rifter

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Seems NVIDIA has been pretty diligently testing and hoarding the dies not quite good enough for their current line up. Selling them in the lull between generations is a way for them to reduce the amount of chips they have to completely write off.

100% this. Very smart business decision.

And those saying its going to confuse customers, maybe, only if they are stupid though. Its always up to the end user to do their own reasearch into the product they are buying. Either way its not nearly as confusing/stupid as AMD's bright idea of making the 68xx series slower than the 58xx series, that was ALOT more confusing to customers than a 460 V2 is going to be.
 

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100% this. Very smart business decision.

And those saying its going to confuse customers, maybe, only if they are stupid though. Its always up to the end user to do their own reasearch into the product they are buying. Either way its not nearly as confusing/stupid as AMD's bright idea of making the 68xx series slower than the 58xx series, that was ALOT more confusing to customers than a 460 V2 is going to be.

What does AMD have to do with anything?

Anyway, they are apparently needing to dump some inferior chips. Naming it after a last gen model though is a bit odd. Of course, I guess they are just wanting to capitalize on the fan base the 460 already has.
 

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Seems NVIDIA has been pretty diligently testing and hoarding the dies not quite good enough for their current line up. Selling them in the lull between generations is a way for them to reduce the amount of chips they have to completely write off.

+1
 

Rifter

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What does AMD have to do with anything?

Anyway, they are apparently needing to dump some inferior chips. Naming it after a last gen model though is a bit odd. Of course, I guess they are just wanting to capitalize on the fan base the 460 already has.

i was just pointing out that as far as stupid naming goes this is actually not that bad with what has been done in the past.
 

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It's basically a beefed-up 768 (same crippled memory bus), so it's not *that* confusing. Plus the clocks are higher than the original 1gb, though of course everything is factory overclocked these days.