CeBIT 2008 Day 1 - New Intel Chipsets, Atom on Display, and lots from AMD/NVIDIA
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 4, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Trade Shows
MSI brings 2GB of memory to the GeForce 9600 GT
MSI had a special GeForce 9600 GT on display with a full 2GB of GDDR3 memory on board. It was also cooled by a Zalman heatsink/fan.
The 2GB frame buffer is undoubtedly useless for any real world gaming performance, but technology for technology's sake is always fun.
Gainward's 1GB 8800 GT
MSI wasn't the only company pushing memory sizes at the show. Gainward also had its 1GB 8800GT on display:
This is also a useless memory size, as 512MB is really the sweet spot for the 8800GT's processing abilities.
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just4U - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
I am curious if Intel is going to have any more DDR2 solutions on the horizon. To be perfeclty honest, I have not been impressed with ddr3 yet. Higher latancy for higher speeds plus extravagant costs.If the price stays similiar or only fluxuates a little in the ddr3 catagory I can see alot of people sticking to ddr2 (provided it remains at such low costs)
Now ... if they could get ddr3 running at cas 2-2-2 hmm... yes Im pretty sure that would turn some heads. Anyway If Intel stick to a exclusive move to ddr3 based systems only I can't see myself jumping on that bandwagon anytime soon.
SiliconJon - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
Wah, I want to go.As for these "hybrid" SLI's, with a performance increase like that on page 2 we should see 8800GTX's with a hefty 1-2% increase in performance with that bad boy :wink wink:. Well stated as not for the [hardcore] gamer.
OCedHrt - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
I would like to point out that the X300 has been available for purchase from lenovo since last Wednesday (2/27). Still a bit too much $$$ for me though :(crimson117 - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
I forsee many more favorable Be-Quiet reviews in the near future...Clauzii - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
It's only a matter of time now. Thank You, dear silence!!! No more whining frequencies :))Griswold - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
The paint wearing girl link is broken!!kaborka - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
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Freienkorperkultur FTW!bespoke - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
They probably broke the link on purpose to see how many of us would go looking for the picture. :)Bladen - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - link
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