Thus, associates reported that video card producers already obtained card on base of chips g84 revision A2, and announcement actually will takes place on 17 April, as it was planned. But why nvidia need to witch from revision A2 to revision A3? As it is explained, the chips g84 revision A2 do not have good frequency potential, but all first generation video card geForce 8600 GTS with frequencies 675/2000 MHz will be equipped precisely with the chips revision A2. The promised later overclocked versions geForce 8600 GTS will be based on chip revision A3.
However, there is no need to wait until the appearance of those overclocked by producers video card geForce 8600 GTS in order to obtain access to the chip g84 revision A3. The majority of chips revision A2 will be realized in the composition of video card geForce 8600 GT, which work at frequencies 540/1400 MHz. The part of chips g84 revision A2 will be attached on their retail video card geForce 8600 GTS, but reserves will be sold off rapidly. Already during May can appear video card geForce 8600 GTS with standard design, which will be based on chips revision A3. It is assumed, that such chip will have larger overclocking capability .
It is necessary to add that video card geForce 8600 GTS on the base of chip g84 are also made from the revisions A2 and they should overclock rather well. Until now, we already published the overclock result of such chip (from 675/2000 MHz to 710/2016 MHz ); however, today appeared new data about the overclock of video card geForce 8600 GTS on base of chip revision A2 to frequencies 800/2332 MHz. . So, in test 3DMark'06 system on base of this overclocked video card and four core processor core 2 Extreme QX6700 (2.66 GHz) collected 6721 points. Without overclock the video card has only 5938 points. If revision A2 can clock up to 800 MHz , then the overclock of revision A3 will be more impressing.
According to updated data, the version geForce 8600 GTS with 256 mb memory will be sold on price from $199, but version with 512 mb memory of type GDDR- 3 will cost not less than $229. It was previously considered that the recommended price of last modification will be $249.