GT240 - nvidia's flagship for this holiday season

[skillyho]

And what does that have to do with the GT240?

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It has to do with the expected and required level of performance (graphically) from a console port, since so many PC games are becoming that these days...so it is a relevant statement.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Ah sorry, I didn't realize that there were CUDA version updates. I thought that CUDA performance was dependent on the SP performance of the card. I still think that when you look at the overall big picture the GT240 is over priced... but if it's CUDA performance is what you're after and it fits the bill, more power to you.

 

[cbn]

No review on the main site yet, with good reason. An intensely ho-hum performer, with overclocked versions performing close to but not quite up to 8800GT standards. This bad boy will probably wind up replacing the half dozen nearly indistinguishable 9600 and 9800 SKUs.

You can find a review at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gt-240,2475.html

Tom's crew managed to put a positive spin on things by contrasting factory overclocked versions vs. the slowest clocked 4670 they could get their hands on. In a no holds barred battle of $35 vs $115 graphics cards it was a decisive answer to the question nobody asked.

On the bright side we don't need to worry about yet another G92 rebadge. On the downside, with the EOLing of the 260 on up, this part will be NV and their board partner's bread and butter performance part possibly well into Q2 2010. Combine this with the disappearing 4830 and rapidly shrinking supply of 4850 and 4870s, this holiday season you get the choice of entry level cards or an impossible to find high end from one supplier only.

Sucks to be us.

I'm sure Dell likes this one a lot because they probably wouldn't need to swap power supplies when this card is selected as an option.

A cordless DX 11 level equivalent of HD4770 would be a good way to counter this.

 

[ronnn]

Charlie's needless innuendo is all that I find odd about his articles. That he found a few equally easily baffled engineers to confirm his desire to see mountains where there are mole-hills is of no surprise to me. I worked side by side with plenty of morons in the fab, god only knows what kind of absurdly inaccurate picture they painted for the vendors when they went on their business lunch and dinner meetings...

When I read a charlie article like that I just sigh and move on. He's got just enough knowledge to be dangerous by misrepresenting the likelihood of any given scenario in a way that makes it seem unavoidable to the otherwise uneducated layperson looking in from outside the industry and yet he's just crackers enough that its not like anyone who really knows what is going on is about to waste their life doing the kind of charity work needed to further educate the fellow.

If Nvidia were a female and not a business entity you'd swear charlie exhibits all the signs and symptoms of a stalker that has a restraining order out on him. Like a spurned lover, "if I can't have her then no one will! She wouldn't sleep with me so I'm going to go psycho and not rest a minute until the rest of the world is convinced she is a whore!". Dude needs medical help and that's my professional opinion.

That was a bizarre read and not totally appropriate. Charlie just does a job and he has been either very lucky or has good sources. Just don't get the personal angst that you guy develop against him - he likely makes a decent living playing the anti nvidia demon.

Back on topic, I like the gt240. Should be cool and quiet with decent performance. Would be even nicer with dx11, but at that price who cares?

 

[yh125d]

That was a bizarre read and not totally appropriate. Charlie just does a job and he has been either very lucky or has good sources. Just don't get the personal angst that you guy develop against him - he likely makes a decent living playing the anti nvidia demon.

Back on topic, I like the gt240. Should be cool and quiet with decent performance. Would be even nicer with dx11, but at that price who cares?

Regardless of how accurate or not charlies articles are, he tends to give ATI fans a bad rap (its had to post pro-ATI posts in a nvidia bash thread without being deemed a "zoner" and ignored). You see the same side on the other camp. Ultra-fanbois like wreckage give the NV fans on here a bad rep because someone posting pro-NV stuff often gets lumped in with wreckage and ignored/flamed by ati guys. It's just an example of how extremeism has a negative effect on the forums

 

[Griswold]

Why do they keep releasing the same old cards on g92 architecture and give them a different label?

I think for two reasons:

1) They got nothing else to release
2) There are still plenty idiots out there who would replace the virtually same card with a different name just to be "up-to-date". Granted, this expensive little sucker is quite good on the idle wattage. But I'm not going to mention DX10.1...

 

[Idontcare]

That was a bizarre read and not totally appropriate. Charlie just does a job and he has been either very lucky or has good sources. Just don't get the personal angst that you guy develop against him - he likely makes a decent living playing the anti nvidia demon.

Back on topic, I like the gt240. Should be cool and quiet with decent performance. Would be even nicer with dx11, but at that price who cares?

You are right, Charlie's journalistic integrity is completely undeserving of my remarks.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Back on topic, I like the gt240. Should be cool and quiet with decent performance. Would be even nicer with dx11, but at that price who cares?

This is just a filler card til the low end Fermi derivative hits in 2010.