Club-3D confirms January GeForce FX card

GRAPHICS CARD MANUFACTURER Club-3D will introduce a GeForce FX card by the end of the month, the firm confirmed today.

See Club-3D GeForce FX card to arrive in two weeks.

The card, which uses the NV30, will have features including 128-bit DDR II memory and a claimed memory speed of 1000MHz, Club-3D said today.

It has the usual Nvidia feature list including vertex shading, pixel shading, 350M triangle transform rate, a maximum FSAA mode of 8X, adaptive anisotropic filtering and supports AGP 8X and DirectX 9.0.

Club-3D will make the card available in both 128MB and 256MB versions, it said.

But there's no clear idea of pricing, just yet. However, a couple of Dutch sites, www.computerboot.com and www.sallandautomatisering.nl have already put the cards on pre-sale, the former at €650 and the latter at €739.59, shipping on the 20th of January and the 22nd of January respectively. Expensive, eh? These are for the 256MB models. A British hardware dealer online has also posted details of a GeForce FX card to be introduced in early February. µ

* AND THE GRAPHICS WARS will heat up with a vengeance soon after the GeForce FX cards arrive, according to a thread on the Ace's Hardware forum. This thread claims that R350 is near.. with rumours circulating about water cooling in the cards. Lawks!