9800GT at Bestbuy?

[Dalyinx]

I was browsing Bestbuy earlier today, and I came across a computer that had its GPU listed as a 9800GT. This surprised me, because I haven't heard of them being out at all.

http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668108.php

That's the computer I saw. Is the 9800GT oem only, and are there any benchmarks for it? It really caught me by surprise; I had to do a double take.

If anyone can give me any info, it'd be appreciated. I was just a little confused.

 

[stove]

Its prolly a typo.... meant to be 8800GT.

maybe......

 

[Dalyinx]

I saw the Pureoverclock article, but I still haven't seen the card for sale anywhere, or benchmarked on anything but that Chinese site, so wtf's the deal?

and it's not a typo. I went into DXDIAG on the Gateway computer, and it said the GPU was a 9800GT, although for some reason it thought it had 2.5gb of RAM, when it only has 512.

 

[skittle]

they have it set to share system ram probably.

 

[mathiasschnell]

So 9800GT is just 8800GT after 55nm refresh?

 

[Dalyinx]

I honestly have no idea. I only posted because I didn't think it was out yet, but from the looks of it, it's OEM-only at the moment.

 

[nukemaster]

I saw the Pureoverclock article, but I still haven't seen the card for sale anywhere, or benchmarked on anything but that Chinese site, so wtf's the deal?

and it's not a typo. I went into DXDIAG on the Gateway computer, and it said the GPU was a 9800GT, although for some reason it thought it had 2.5gb of RAM, when it only has 512.

Vista has some kind of shared memory option on.

 

[Slobogob]

So 9800GT is just 8800GT after 55nm refresh?

That's what i think, yes.