NVIDIA GeForce 8200 Supply Update
by Gary Key on March 5, 2008 1:00 AM EST- Posted in
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We are finally receiving some decent delivery information about the upcoming GeForce 8200 product that will feature Hybrid SLI (GeForce Boost), HybridPower, and DX10 capable graphics performance similar (so we are being told with the latest drivers) to the AMD 780G series that has been shipping since late January.
According to our sources, the delays have been primarily caused by severe chipset shortages that are unlikely to improve until the latter part of March. We expect to see retail boards shipping (in small quantities) in early April from a select few suppliers. It appears supply will increase substantially by the later part of April with widespread availability from NVIDIA's board partners at that time.
In fact, Gigabyte just confirmed that their GA-M78SM-S2H will not be widely available until early May, a pattern we expect to see from the vast majority of suppliers. We also understand that final drivers and BIOS code are still not available, so the initial availability of product shortly might not show the chipset's performance up to its full potential, or maybe not. We expect production level boards in-house shortly and will provide an early first look as soon as possible.
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IceBreakerG - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
That's good to know, since I'm really interested in Hybrid SLI. I'm also interested in a 45nm quad core CPU as well (the Q9450 specifically), but there's still no word on when those will be available. Until they are, the chipset is useless to me :(ssiu - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
I think this GeForce 8200 is for AMD CPUs.I'd also like to know when will an equivalent chipset for Intel CPUs come out.
Simon128D - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
Here here! That's what I would like to know too.I'm just itching to build myself a new computer and I want to have a GeForce 8800GT but I won't be gaming all the time so the idea of an IGP taking of and puting the GPU to sleep resulting in power saving is very appealing to me. I don't want to be giving myself a large electricity bill from talking on MSN or replying to emails etc.
I'm patiently awaiting word on all of this.