[Pc_Support] Woot has a nice deal on a video card -- false specs (7900GT)?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 03:51 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> The "desktop" 7900GS just came out (the "mobile" GeForce Go 7900GS has
> been around awhile).  It drops to 20 pixel, 7 vertex, like the older
> 7800GT.  And from what I've read, clocks drop to 375MHz core, 1000MHz
> effective DDR2? GDDR3? memory.
> Now that does make it (20/7/375/1000-256b) better than either of the
> older 6800GT (16/6/350/1000-256b) or 7600GT (12/5/560/1400-128b), which
> are -- at best -- the same price after rebate/specials.

Here's AnandTech's coverage of the Dell leak:  
  http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2329  


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