A funny thing happened the other day. We at Bjorn3D had just finished covering the launch of the GTX 200 GPUs and were turning our attention to AMD's launch of its new GPUs when NVIDIA called us. They told us they had upgraded the 9800 GTX with faster clocks and a smaller core. They were calling it the 9800 GTX+ and it was poised to take on the competition's newest GPU, the ATI 4850. They were going to send us a pair of these new cards and wanted to have the article go live on the 25th, the original launch day of the 4850. That's when it dawned on us, ATI is back and they had Nvidia shaking in their GPUs! Just a couple short days later we get news that AMD found out what NVIDIA was up to and pushed up the launch of the 4850 six days ahead of schedule. When NVIDIA got wind of this they lifted their embargo on the 9800 GTX+. Ahhhh, isn't competition great!
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