CyberSurge

The Inquirer has benchmark numbers of the Geforce 8500 and 8600 cards. They did have benchmarks before which we talked about here. But, now they have much more specific numbers.
under 3DMark06 at 1600×1200 4AA/16AF
8500GT got 1141
8600GT got 2483
8600GTS got 2949
The Inquirer has the full details here.

The Inquirer had some time with a 8600GTS and a 8600GT the benchmarks were done on a machine with a Intel X6800 with 3DMark06
5500 for the 8800GTS
4800 for the 8800GT
Check out what they had to say here.

Nvidia recently released forceware version 100.41 drivers and the release notes name compatability for the Geforce 8800 Ultra, which isn’t out. Nvidia hasn’t used the Ultra name in quite a while but this Ultra most likely will be just an overclocked 8800GTX.
I think that the 8800 Ultra will be in short supply similar to how [...]

ZDNet has a few photos up of the R600. The thing is the biggest graphics card I’ve ever seen. You can check out the pictures here.

ATI’s upcoming R600 based card the X2900 has been delayed untill the second quarter according to Extremetech’s Mark Hachmen. The card is delayed due to problems in the chip itself, he did not mention exactly what the problem was but would mean that they may need to remake the chips. May be a modification due [...]

The G84 (8600) chip by Nvidia will be going AGP in April. This is big news for all you old school AGP users out there who would like to either get a little bit more horse power in their current set up or would like to upgrade to Vista with a little bit more ease.
The [...]

Nvidia has released drivers for all you 8800 users out there who have Vista, no more beta drivers for you, unless you like to be on the cutting edge. This is the official WHQL driver for Vista, supporting all 8800, Geforce 7 series, and 6 series GPUs.  But, what about SLI support, well thats a [...]