I wonder if the low-end cards on the impending GF600 series are going to have improved performance over their equivalent 500 series parts or if it is just going to be a die shrink. There's been small refinements over the last couple of card generations, but the TDP for the lowest end part has stayed around 30W.
Honestly I'd like to see something along the lines of the 520, but configured more for lower TDP, say around 15W or less. I like my high end parts as much as the next person but I have been building or rebuilding a lot of boxes lately for the office. Having some hyper-efficient video cards in there would make "Windows 7-izing" the older devices we have in there a lot easier.
Of course some of the motherboards have AGP slots so looking to AMD for DX9c or better stuff would be best in those instances as the cards would be newer from them, but some of the boxes will need to be gutted and having a superefficient PCI-E card for the office would be nice. Hell, if someone could lower the draw to the point where old school passive sinks were used, that would be great too.
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