The NVidia 9800GX2 Revisited
Hey guys, Icarus here again with more hardware review. Since I’ve been talking a lot about GPU’s lately, I thought I’d revisit some of the older GPU’s for once.
The NVidia 9800GX2 has been out for a month or so, and the prices haven’t quite budged- still at a high average price of $539.99, the 9800GX2 is still quite expensive, as I’ve said a few words ago. The 9800GX2 was to be the new “king of the hill” GPU, surpassing the Ultra but still stay at a relatively low price for the performance it provides. One criteria was met, but the other wasn’t: it’s almost as expensive as some low-end NVidia 8800 Ultra’s.
The 9800GX2 outperforms the 8800 Ultra’s, but came with a price tag too large to make it favorable for many aspiring computer builders. Since many new aspiring computer builders often have a low- to mid-range budget, most of us will not have the money to spend 600 dollars on a single component of the computer. If NVidia intended to push away ATi by releasing the 9800GX2 and become more favorable than ATi, NVidia has failed to do so. My first impression upon the release of the 9800GX2 was: “Wow, very nice. You beat your own 8800 Ultra. So what?”. To achive our votes, NVidia should have released the 9800GTX first, which was a better but still somewhat disappointing GPU. The 9800GTX is at a pretty good price right now at the average price of $309.99, and also performs almost as well as the 8800 Ultras.
So, the bottom point: The 9800GX2’s are still not even remotely close to being worth its rediculously high price tag. NVidia should have released the 9800GTX first, then the 9800GX2. Then maybe NVidia would’ve had much more success in the GPU market.
That’s all for tonight, enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Icarus
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