GTX 260 Finally Released and Available For Sale

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   GTX 260 Finally Released and Available For Sale

The GTX 260 has been awaited for the past few months and especially the past few weeks.  Unlike the 9000 series of NVidia graphics cards, this is a completely new architecture instead of a refresh.  For the first time ever, a true 448-bit wide memory bus and 896 MB of GDDR3 memory is available which means you can game at very high screen resolutions without major performance hits.  Also, the GPU sports 280 stream processors, double which has been available for the past two video card series. 
While the smaller brother of the GTX 280, this video card is still miles ahead of the last generation of video cards.  It features are just slightly underclocked or lowered to make a much better value card than the GTX 280, which is a video card with no limits.
Preliminary reports put this card at just under the perform of the older 9800 GX2.  What is great is that this card is being sold for hundreds less than the 9800 GX2 and it is a single GPU, so it does not suffer from the SLI effects as the GX2.  This card is capable of triple-SLI, and three of these cards will just boggle the mind.

Final and accurate spec list.

Fabrication and Frequencies:

Processing Performance:

     Process: 
65 nm 

     Stream Processor Units: 
240 

     Core Clock: 
576 MHz 

     Raster Operation Units (ROPs): 
28 

     Shader Clock: 
1242 MHz 

     Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): 
64

     Flops:
715 GFlops

Memory:

     Texel Fillrate:
36180 MT/s

     Memory Clock: 
1000 MHz 

     Memory Type: 
GDDR3 

Features:

     Memory interface: 
448-bit 

     Standard Shader Model: 
4.0 

     Memory capacity: 
896 MB 

     Standard DirectX Version: 
DirectX 10 

     Memory Bandwidth:
111.9 GB/s

     Video playback technology: 
PureVideo HD Technology 

     Power Connector(s): 
2 x 6-Pin

     Thermal Design Power (TDP): 
182 Watt 

The GTX 280 is now available in all our gaming systems here.  http://www.avadirect.com/Desktop_Systems/Custom_Gaming_Systems 
The GTX 260 is also available to be purchased here by itself.  http://www.avadirect.com/plist.asp?keywords=gtx+260 

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