These cards exist because they're demanded by OEMs. They've been shipped to OEMs for quite a while.

Now the cards are also being made available to end users through regular retail.

They're all in the low end to low mainstream segment and will never cost a fortune, even though they're overpriced at the moment.

Here are retail versions of 220, so JIAN talks crap.

http://www.komplett.se/k/kl.aspx?bn=10488&mfr=&filter=A00247.K181420.A03616.K144543.

And i f you scroll down on this site there are both 210 and 220 retail cards.

http://www.dustinhome.se/lp_5301_312.aspx

Nvidia haters crack me up. OEM's demanded that DX10.1 be on cards sent to them this xmas. Nvidia only did what they were told to keep AMD from having the lionshare of xmas crap PC's they'll be flogging with windows 7. These cards are NOT being sold at retail for that reason. Why would you send something out to reviewers that we will likely never be able to buy? It's not for us get it? It's for DEll, HP, etc.

Now, what is late (in my mind) is 40nm versions of 260/275/280/gtx295. That should be what they concentrate on for xmas. Shrink them, upclock them, add faster memory and lower pricing a bit because of the cost savings. Those would match up well against AMD's new cards until GT300 comes in Q1 2010. Lower temps, another 15%-20% across the board because of gpu clock hikes and faster memory with them and they'd change the picture quite a bit. Just don't rename them please...LOL. Put a + on the end and call it a day.

You NV haters had better hope AMD starts making money soon or we'll all be looking at GT210/GT220 coming to shelves for us at $300...GTX295 would suddenly rise to $999. :) Both sides need to raise prices across the board. Pricing each others stuff to death we'll hurt all consumers in the end. AMD hasn't made money since 2006!

I'd buy a cheap nVidia card for PhysX to sit alongside my ATI card, but nVidia don't want my custom so I won't bother.

#1: Just the other day I saw an ad in the local newspaper touting a $500 PC as provided with a "powerful graphics card". The problem was/is that the GT210 is anything but powerful...

#2: In the retail market these cards are overpriced for their low performance.

When I want to read great Nvidia bashing, which is totally deserved by Nvidia pitiful attitude/execution/honesty as of late, I tune to The Inquire or Semi-accurate.

Note that I don't give a shit about any manufacturers, I only despise the one acting like Nvidia. ATI, or any other, just give 1 good reason to jump at your throat and I will gladly.

Those G210-G220 parts are like 9-10 months late because of Nvidia catastrophic transition to the 40nm process.

Both the 4670 and 4850 beats the laughable Nvidia offering at roughly the same price. The DX11 low end Evergreen/Juniper replacement will make them irrelevant in just 2-3 months from now.

3 months life span in the OEM market is not enough time to justify to even put them in stock. As it is, they're doomed parts, already obsolete before even hitting the shelves.

I guess Nvidia figured: "What the heck, we finally made them, we will at least sell a couple of them" or some other looser thinking.

Anyone here want to take a bet as of when the GT300 will be available? And I don't mean a stupid paper launch, mock-up or some other attempt at deception. I'm talking about mass availability. I'm putting a little 20.00$ on March 19 2010. LoL And that's a safe bet! :)

What a joke Nvidia has become...

Ramon

Raven, could it be that he referred to the whole G210-card with the 50$ ? Yes I think so.

10.1 at last, thats a step forward, suddenly

A DVI to HDMI Adapter should NOT cost more then 3 Euro or you are getting ripped off.

Examples here:
http://www.reichelt.de/?;ARTICLE=60294
http://www.reichelt.de/?;ARTICLE=74798
Oh and gold plated HDMI cables should cost much more then 2.20 either:
http://www.reichelt.de/?;ARTICLE=88069

That's a rumor, heard from sources at nVidia, which make the rumor even more unreliable, by the way.
Other article from the same site that gave this news: "GT300 was a dummy, does it really matter?". Something says that there is a lot of fanboism in it.

I think he meant in the PC graphics department... and if you're talking about the rumours at BS News, it would indeed be a great achievement for Nvidia, but Nintendo has always been a "closed" architecture, as have Xbox and Playstation. Let's wait and see...

....with a light garnish of DX10.1 to hide the stale taste.

Can we have something new please?

"but you can’t help but feel that there is nothing much on Nvidia's table for now"

What about Nvidia winning the contract for the next gen nintendo ds?