Time to get the fake smile and forced excitement out of the secret place in the closet, as info has come about regarding Nvidia's first 40nm GPU-powered desktop cards, the GeForce GT 210 and GT 220. Both low end offers, the cards feature DirectX 10.1 support and are said to be slated for an October release, before the Windows 7 launch.

The GeForce GT 210 is reported to feature 24 Processing Cores, a 64-bit memory interface and 512MB of DDR2 or DDR3 memory, and GPU, shader and memory clocks of 600, 1425 and 800 MHz, respectively.

Going just up the price and performance ladder, the GeForce GT 220 packs 48 PCs, a 128-bit memory interface and has its GPU set to 625 MHz, the shaders @ 1375 MHz, and the 1GB of DDR2/DDR3/GDDR3 memory clocked at 800 (1600 DDR) MHz. In addition to these two models Nvidia should be releasing some higher-end cards but for now info about them is scarce. But we can wait.