mobilenvidia Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Here is an article from the not always so reliable The Inquirer Notice how our very good friend Icetea gets a mention in the article as well, well deserved for his hard work in MxM Nvidia G92 primed for notebook marketGeforce 8800M GTX fogged to Dell, Acer, Asus, Tosh By Theo Valich: Thursday, 25 October 2007, 7:36 PM DURING COMPUTEX, we received word that Nvidia was gunning to get a die-shrink of G80 in order to make it fit into notebooks. The chip is now being manufactured not only for PCIe Gen2 boards, named 8800GT, but for MXM form as well. The 8800M GTX will come to market with 512MB of video memory, but there is going to be a 256MB part as well. Since the total TDP of this module is set at 35W, Nvidians downclocked the chip and activated all possible power saving modes that the desktop part (allegedly) does not need. This is great news for notebook owners, since with a bit of help from people from MXM Upgrade you will probably be able to find an MXM module for your own laptop. Nvidia sees this part as ideal chip to replace aging Geforce 7950 GTX SLI notebooks. And if you're into modding, you'll love the opportunity to hammer those two boards from your 19-inch monster and throw in some life in it. On the other hand, seeing good performing dual-cores packed with DDR2-800 SO-DIMM modules from G.Skill and this MXM module in an attractive package, and your ideal mobile gaming rig could be assembled. Release date is third week of November, and we heard the date of November 19th, but this is more to do with how ready Clevo is with the new designs. Only real dillema is - if the part is named 8800M GTX, and not 8800M GT, is Nvidia going to unlock all 128 units inside the chip (16 are disabled for yield purposes), or is this "GTX" is going to be "GTX" by name alone? ยต Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattman Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 (edited) GTX in name alone I suspect, is not the G92 a mid range part in the desktop market? (ie - to be released baby of the 8800 range). However, it will still outperform the 8700GT and hopefully at least meet the 7950GTX in DX9 performance :) Edited October 26, 2007 by mattman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 The bottom end of the 8x00 series is pretty well covered now. From here on in we'll see the big boys come out. Die shrink will make the 8800M GTX a reality. Probably other variants will follow. The desktops will probably get to see 8900 and 8950 GTX's Not sure if the Mobile range will get to see these yet, but maybe who knows. Just some guessing on part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice-Tea Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 ... OK, that explains the spike in page views :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerXML Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Woot, this is along the lines I got my C90S for. Now lets hope I get something along the lines of MXM 2.0 form otherwise I'll be really, really sad. BTW with the new driver, hotfixes and .inf everythings working in Vista. Still got slow transfer rate, but I just got my invite to the SP1 BETA and I a little birdy told me thats been addressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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