The 8800 GTX and GTS have already been released, but NVIDIA’s entire 8800 series lineup has yet to be completed. In the next few weeks, the GeForce 8600 and GeForce 8300, whose technical characteristics have already been leaked on the Internet but not officially confirmed by NVIDIA, will be released. MSI was showing cards based on these GPUs, however, they did not specify their commercial names nor their technical characteristics to avoid violating the embargo date on these products.

The two cards here are expected to belong to the GeForce 8600 range. As is expected, the top of the board sports an SLI connector, while the boards also come integrated with DVI and HDMI connections for external displays. Although the GPU is covered by a sticker, it is still easy to see that the surface area is quite small meaning that NVIDIA has been able to cut production costs by getting a larger number of die per wafer.

The card with the red PCB is expected to be the GeForce 8500. The SLI connector, as is foreseeable, is present on the top left of the board and there is no 6-pin PCIe power connector. The cooling system is a single slot solution, and the board comes with VGA and DVI outputs.

To close the range of NVIDIA DirectX 10 offerings, MSI was displaying two cards which will belong to the GeForce 8300 family of products. In this case, there are no SLI connectors. Both boards, however, are also designed quite differently. The first one is meant to be a low profile card specifically designed for HTPCs, indicated by the HDMI connector and HDCP support. The other board is of standard size, and uses a dual-slot cooling system to allow higher operating frequencies than the NVIDIA reference line. A booth representative confirmed that the second card will come factory overclocked and that its name will end in "O.C. Edition.”

MSI was also showing a product that we have been looking forward to for the past couple of weeks since its original press release; the NX8800GTX OC Liquid. The card is based on the GeForce 8800 GTX GPU and it comes overclocked complete with a pre-installed liquid cooling system. Unfortunately we weren’t able to gain more details on the launch date of this product or its pricing, but be sure that we will have a review of it once it is released.