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All Mac Pro 8800 GT Owner will get free upgrade
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for all intents and purposes, they are
i reccomend not justgoing by card names for your assumptions lol
It's more to clarify their overpopulated lineup. Have they succeeded? Not by a longshot.
Personally I feel that dropping the letters (GTX, GTS, GT, GS, GSO) and using a straight numbering scheme with three digits would be the most easily decipherable. Example:
High End (GTX 280, 4870X2) -> 290 $450-$600
High Mid (GTX 260, 4870) -> 270 $300-$400
High Affordable (9800GT, 4850) -> 250 $200-$300
Mid High (9600GT, 4670) -> 240 $140-$180
Mid Low (9500GT, 4650) - 230 $80-$110
Low (9300GS, 4200) -> 210 $30-$60
Later versions, like the 7900GTX in comparison with the 7800GTX could add a 5 to the end (295).
In addition, while the equivilent existing cards are from different time periods within their respective brand, they still more or less illustrate the performance point.
Having one number for each generation is definitely a good idea, have 2 numbers (GT 100 series and GTX 200 series) is dumb.
Is the above scheme perfect as is? Decidedly not. Nvidia and ATI have decided to have more cards and more price brackets with little difference in between, making their model numbers much harder to figure out than the one above. Will my "vision" ever happen? No.
Personally I feel that dropping the letters (GTX, GTS, GT, GS, GSO) and using a straight numbering scheme with three digits would be the most easily decipherable. Example:
High End (GTX 280, 4870X2) -> 290 $450-$600
High Mid (GTX 260, 4870) -> 270 $300-$400
High Affordable (9800GT, 4850) -> 250 $200-$300
Mid High (9600GT, 4670) -> 240 $140-$180
Mid Low (9500GT, 4650) - 230 $80-$110
Low (9300GS, 4200) -> 210 $30-$60
Later versions, like the 7900GTX in comparison with the 7800GTX could add a 5 to the end (295).
In addition, while the equivilent existing cards are from different time periods within their respective brand, they still more or less illustrate the performance point.
Having one number for each generation is definitely a good idea, have 2 numbers (GT 100 series and GTX 200 series) is dumb.
Is the above scheme perfect as is? Decidedly not. Nvidia and ATI have decided to have more cards and more price brackets with little difference in between, making their model numbers much harder to figure out than the one above. Will my "vision" ever happen? No.
The new name contains smaller numbers. That means less weight, making the card faster.
In your quote, which oddly doesn't appear in my quote,
the 178.15 drivers are mentioned. When I go to the NV
driver download site the latest is 178.13. Where do you
get the 178.15 drivers from?
This is where I looked:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Thanks.
The 173.15 may not be WHQL certified yet, which is why they may not be on the main download page. I know that EVGA usually posts the most up to date driver, WHQL or not. I'd check there, but their site is down. Wonder if it's got anything to do with no longer being NV exclusive? Probably not.
On a side note, ATI cards with EVGA factory OC sound pretty good.
On a side note, ATI cards with EVGA factory OC sound pretty good.
So, with this, I take it the 8600 GT has become the 9600 GT aka GTS 150
thus, does the same renaming strategy apply to the 8600M GT?
Hence the doomed "8600M GT" is now the 9600M GT - which exist in the current (new) range of MacBookPro's...
Oh wait, Apple hasn't really given up a upgrade, just thrown us the whole nVIDIA package and a shiny new case!! Minus some ports.
WOW!! That's cunning!
