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    News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    NVIDIA takes GT200 architecture to the sub-£50 price point with the launch of the GeForce G210 and GeForce GT220.
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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    So how does the audio work on these things then? will they support bitstream of the HD audio codecs like the new ATI 5 series cards?

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Now, theres my slution to making a million

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Argh, still now silent/passive 5xxx Radeons. Glad to see that Nvidia aren't ignoring this end of the market, but I'm not in this one... give me a passive card that gets me as close to a 4850 as possible and I'll be happy.
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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Quote Originally Posted by chis View Post
    give me a passive card that gets me as close to a 4850 as possible and I'll be happy.
    You're asking too much. Or are you?

    I'm astonished that they didn't put DP on these cards rather than VGA (which could have gone through DVI). DP is an open standard, so it should be cheaper... but I might be talking rubbish.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Quote Originally Posted by chis View Post
    give me a passive card that gets me as close to a 4850 as possible and I'll be happy.
    I'm running a 4850 passive with one of these: http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalo...ath=2_&mID=105

    Only problem is trying to get hold of the cooler, I haven't seen it anywhere for a while, though Thermalright and Scythe both do good coolers for graphics cards which are available in various places.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Quote Originally Posted by baius View Post
    Just bought this

    Quote Originally Posted by fawlters View Post
    I'm running a 4850 passive with one of these: http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalo...ath=2_&mID=105

    Only problem is trying to get hold of the cooler, I haven't seen it anywhere for a while, though Thermalright and Scythe both do good coolers for graphics cards which are available in various places.
    I used that on a HD4850 once and card died on me ! Are you using a fan on or towards the card?


    Btw, here's an email I rcvd





    http://www.spire.co.uk/product_detai...0HDCP.%20PCI-E

    Shame they are for Trade only!

    £50ish for GT220 and £30ish for GT210 incl. VAT

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Looks like these cards are up for pre-order at scan et al:
    http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-17-673-0
    http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-17-672-0
    Ebuyer are listing an expected date of October 16th for stock of their GT 200 cards.
    However I'm interested in the ECS passive cooled version for an HTPC build, I wonder how long they'll take to be released?

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    They certainly look interesting, particularly for HTPC builds (which I'm considering as my first ever build soon) given their diminutive size and power - it'll even fit into the Silverstone LC16M I'm considering. I like the HDMI socket as well (yes, I know an adapter gives you the same thing, but less faff is good). It's just a shame they seem to be overpriced according to all the reviews I've read.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Interesting.. but so bloody slow for any modernish games. HTPC has to be the better target market.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Thanks for the suggestions chaps, but I'd prefer to just spend out on newer tech for a passive card. My 4850 is fine for now but it's in what's supposed to be a DAW, and the fan is just too noisy. But I do play the odd bit of Left 4 Dead, TF2 etc. *waits a little longer for the hopefully inevitable passive 5750?*
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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Quote Originally Posted by Syllopsium View Post
    Interesting.. but so bloody slow for any modernish games.
    Hmm, dunno about that. The GT220 has 50% more cores than the 9500GT, so should perform somewhere between that and a 9600GT - that should make it a reasonable bet for casual gaming at 1280 x 1024 with low to moderate IQ. It'd be interesting to see it benchmarked against those two and the 4650 / 4670. It certainly makes a reasonable case for being in my next office machine upgrade, particularly since it seems to come in low profile by default

    edit: but of course, despite the reference design being low profile, can I find a low profile one on etail?!
    Last edited by scaryjim; 13-10-2009 at 11:04 PM.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    Hmm, dunno about that. The GT220 has 50% more cores than the 9500GT, so should perform somewhere between that and a 9600GT - that should make it a reasonable bet for casual gaming at 1280 x 1024 with low to moderate IQ. It'd be interesting to see it benchmarked against those two and the 4650 / 4670. It certainly makes a reasonable case for being in my next office machine upgrade, particularly since it seems to come in low profile by default

    edit: but of course, despite the reference design being low profile, can I find a low profile one on etail?!
    It doesn't seem completely awful for casual gaming and moderate levels, though as I recall, the 4670 beats it pretty evenly on most things except power, temperature, and noise, which you'd expect from the 40nm technology. The pricing could do with being a little lower to make it compete.

    Anandtech and Tomshardware have some numbers. Hang on...
    http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3657
    http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforc...iew-31703.html

    Scan have this for pre-order - http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=1084439

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    Re: News - NVIDIA quietly brings its first 40nm desktop GPUs to retail

    Still no sign of any passive 220's, annoying as I really wanted to pick one up for my media PC.
    Now I have the dilema of wait (due to a lack of lead time's on the silent cards) or pick up and XFX/Asus card now and hope they're relatively quiet...

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