Card Makers Self-Designed 8800 GT Cards
INQ is reporting about 50K GeForce 8800 GT cards available for sale on the launch day on Oct 29th. However, only 512MB versions will be available at US$249 and 256MB versions at a later stage at US$199. VR-Zone learned that the first wave of reference cards will be made by Foxconn and the subsequently Flextronics. The AIC partners are working hard on designing the 256MB and 512MB cards themselves and we should be seeing different designs and coolers later next month. Also performance will vary pretty much between each makers too due to different PCB designs, memories, coolers, core/mem clock as well as shader clocks.
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