Nvidia has informed their partners that
the GeForce 9800 GTX launch has been pushed one week from March 25th to April
1st. No reason was provided for the delay but it is funny that Nvidia chose
to launch a flagship product on April Fool day. GeForce 9800 GTX will be priced
at US$ 349. On a side note, the industry is speculating that Nvidia might be
forced to lower the price of the newly launched GeForce 9800 GX2 soon to better
compete against Radeon HD 3870 X2 card which has a better price/performance
ratio. Currently, 9800 GX2 is priced at ~US$ 599 while 3870 X2 is priced at ~US$
410, nearly $ 200 difference. With that amount, you can get another HD 3870
card, set up a Hybrid Crossfire (3870X2+3870) and has a potential to achieve
better performance than the GX2.