Nvidia 7900 ? ? ?

[drednox]

hey

anyone know when Nvidia will be releasing their next round of hardware forretail ? will it be 7900 ? or something else ?

i cant seem to be able to find any articles / press releases on this. can someone thats up to date on this stuff please post some direct links ?

thanks.

 

[Sable]

I think it's March/April time. More likely Apirl though.

edit:

Or maybe not. I think there were rumours of a Cebit launch which would mean March.

No set date yet though I don't think.

 

[lifeguard1999]

The rumor (Inq) was a March launch at Cebit (which runs March 9-15). Now the rumor (again from the Inq) is that they will not have hard products in time for Cebit, so they may do a paper launch at Cebit, and a hard launch later. We'll see.

 

[drednox]

damn what a bummer.

thats so long away. i want to build a new system for PCI-e and was hoping to stay clear of ATI this time around after the drama i have had with 9700 AIW Pro and 9800 Pro (both AGP). not to mention their control center.

the control center wouldnt even run on eitehr of my systems if i dont let cli.exe connect to the net, i e-mailed the tech support and got a rediculously stupid standard "q-card reading by a waiter" instead of a technical reply about it.

also neither the 9700 AIW nor the 9800 Pro had native resolutions for my monitor http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSH...yName=cpu_Displays_FlatPanelLCDs_20%22 , i actually have a little bit later model then this but there are no available links to it. at any rate, none of the ATI cards i tried supported the native resolutions for it so i had to go and buy a cheapy Nvidia for around 80 bucks just so i can run it at all, as a result i am suffering from performance issues.

would be nice if it was possible to have a top performance video card but without the ATI drama and headaches. damnit.

 

[lifeguard1999]

There is nothing wrong with the 7800 GT/GTX/512 series, except that the 512 is a bit expensive.

 

[DigitalFreak]

I'm waiting on the M2 socket Athlon 64s before I upgrade, so hopefully the 7900 cards will be out by then.