the special news is..........
IT IS BLOODY EXPENSIVE!!!
i think i'll better go 4 ATI 4 its price/performance ratio...........

there shud b some gaming benchmark later 2day.

i still remember back in those days where ati is the 1 wit better card & selling it expensive.........
man, how the table hav turn..........

Saw this baby gtx 280 in cycom today. its a monster. from zotac. retailed at 2k+.

not mine.
simple review purpose only

2001 also 2k+
2999 also 2k+

any specific price?

its imprtant?



wow.. he not lowyat mmbe ka?LOL..

Its RM3000 in Europe, malaysia is a bit lucky. Hehe

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/14/complete-gtx280-scores-here

dis is pretty impressive......

the result are good enough... but the price are gay enough too.

First review !

http://hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=3&id=2593

There's plenty of reviews around the net already. Here's the list of all the reviews.

List for GTX280 and GTX260 reviews

GTX280 performs like 8800GT in SLI mode. But it's more expensive.

another review here.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-gtx-280,1953.html

hmm... GTx280 1Gb = US$649 and Gtx280 896mb = US$399

US$250 different lerh... i prefer GTX280 896mb then!

hmm... GTx280 1Gb = US$649 and Gtx260 896mb = US$399

US$250 different lerh... i prefer GTX260 896mb then!

review from china .. cheese

http://www.it.com.cn/f/diy/086/16/609817.htm

Ops... paisei ...

so... aim for 260now...

since gtx200 series is officially announced today at nvidia.com

i was hoping there is a new driver 177...

u already bought 1?
how much?

He said announced.... Geez....

no, i did't buy it,

but i would prefer a new driver revision for my old geforce 9.. lol

anyway.. i'm speculating that this GTX200 series is a stop gap measure..

expect 55nm process resulting in faster clockspeed, and possibly gddr4 by end of the year.. and dx10.1 enabled???


anyway.. gtx200 is just abt 2 * G92 in a single die...

GT200 for me , over price compare to competitor ... improve thier G80 , increse quantity of stream processing , memory bus etc .....

he hope 4 new drivers......so i though he might already bought it......

BTW, it will b more wise 2 wait 4 hd 4k series b4 throwing all ur money @ gt200

I read Tomshardware's and Anandtech's reviews, and I must say, this is a joke of a card. Better hope it is driver issues or something. I'm sticking with ATI for the next change if this GT200 still performs as it is.

3-sli review

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the driver definitely need some polish.......
it seams dat SLI (especially 3 way) doesn't quite live up 2 the standard expected.

In anandtech review I am not quite agree with the benchmark. 8800GT SLI does beat GTX280 in some games?

its driver issue i hope... if not im going for ati next gen card

I guess its driver issue.Same goes with ATi?
Becos HD 4850 Crossfired can already on par with GTX 280 = =.

really not impress me.
some game 9800GX2 still beat GTX280

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-280-review-test/15

are we heading for dark ages? lol

based on the benchmark, all are at 1600x1200 or higher resolution. i'm still eating dust at 1280*1024. guess a upgrade to 8800GT sufficient for me

gtx200 is not efficient, what a let down =.=
i can accept 9800gx2 beat gtx280 since 9800gx2 has 2 cores compare to gtx280 which has only 1 core..
but the efficiency of gtx2800 let me down.. =.=
basically,2x 9800 chip to combine together and some tweaks only = gtx200 =.=
i would expect the ati 4k to do better in term of efficiency

GTX200 is efficient, but it's expensive and not worth the price.

2x 9800GTX also has 2 cores if compared to GTX200. It's basically the same as 9800GX2. Don't forget that GTX280 can use 3-way SLI, which is basically 3x 9800GX2 or 6x 9800GTX.

efficient?
the power comsumption is more or less the same with 9800gx2..
just that it is able to go lower voltage when it is at idle
apart from that, based on the reviews, GTX200 is noisy le..more noisy than the 9800gx2 when it is under full load due to the fan need to cold down the gpu
it does not support DX10.1 =.= ..
if it is less heat and less power comsumption, it will be good,
perhaps it is driver problem causes the performance to be not so good?

expensive is another issue, haih .. for performance/price better go for 9800gx2.... or see how ATI gonna perform with its 4000 series

based on nvidia website.. minimum requirement of 550W PSU is needed to run this GTX280 and 500W PSU for GTX260

wah... look like no one going to stand on Nvidia side anymore ...
Just wonder if HD4870 came out before Nvidia GT200 ... what will happen ? I guess everyone will put thier money on ATI and forget about Nvidia anymore...

dunno my st56f can handle which gpu leh?

2XXGTX still denied the DX10.1...i think Nvidia was too ego...

hahaha i am smelling the collapse of nvidia kingdom soon all thanks 2 the sucky performance expectation with an overpriced tag

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Added on June 17, 2008, 11:21 am

i think you better stick with your 8800 GT as your PSU will surely burn in flames by inserting the GTX 200 series card

its GTX200 series recall back the FX series dark time...

RM7500++ for 3-way SLi only? not to mention to buy PSU for this fake, so...no tks
I see someone with 3-way sli GTX280 uses total of 2000w of PSU -.-"


You can't, you need 8pin+6pin connector to run GTX280.

8Pin Converter won't do any good

OMG that the worst series ever make from nvidia.geforce series 5

HAR .... ST56F-V3 cannot support GTx280 ? serious ? got only 8 pin only ?

STF566f v3.1 (im using it) got only 2x6pin connector..

he means the st56f doesn't have 8 pin vga connector, need to use converter for that.

So 8pin equals to how many 4 pin molex eh?

reviews of GTX280 already out. here are some of them:

Dailytech

yea too ego.. will be fallen


same thought
now it is the best time for ATI to beat nvidia back

i saw the crysis performance is like near to 9800GTX only le.. 3dmark06 score also some where there.

http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Graphics-c...280/Page-4.html

for me i still dun think its worth to get this card...

so what is the $ supposed to be? USD?

i've comeup with my own version of review:

Okay... lets look at the Main character here...
ZOTAC GTX280 1G

well, ZOTAC comes with their identical orange color boxing, and their avatar the "IRON MAN"

Had the box opened up, here comes the components...

something caught my attention.. GRID! BY CODEMASTER!!!

And now it's the time for the " 主角" come out! TADA~~ the Graphic card

Well~ nothing special. A cooler which black in colour(NVIDIA STYLE )
but, for your information, thsi Graphic card length 28.5CM.. you can make it 29CM


Look into the Fan it uses, 80mm blower fan. Herm.. it should be pretty silent... perhaps (not full load off course)

lets look at the side of the GC,

you'll realise the card is quite thick. It's 40mm thickness

and, the back...


output.

It comes with dual DVI output + S-Video out. There is an indicator LED on the left side of the hot air exhaust

Well.. It's Power time

This graphic card need 1 x 6Pin + 1 x 8Pin PCIE power input.
Generally, this card needs 40A of power.. So, do your PSU able to whistand the requirement?
easy, take ur calculator and count yourself

the MSRP for this Graphic card is around RM2490

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The performance of GTX280 is very dissapointing for me bcoz it's performance is comparable to 9800GX2 which is about RM200 cheaper. Early rumours suggest that it will beat 9800GX2 by a large margin but the benchmarks told otherwise. Still, It is a great card and recommended for extreme gamers. If u don't have the money, just buy the GTX260 which is only 18% slower than the GTX280 and 45% cheaper too. skcs1985 is selling GTX280 for someone looking ti buy it. Go here http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/721275/+0&#entry18024482