8800 IHS finally removed!

[oohms]

http://resources.vr-zone.com/yantronic/ihs/bam.jpg

:eek:

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4352

[Nedjo]

Magnificent!

[marauder16]

OMFG! That's one large die! :slobber:
is it me or it's a little concave?

[badhabit]

Ha! From the looks of the board I thought they just took a blowtorch to it, but I guess it was just a dead unit. Cool though!

[tjelaw]

Ha! From the looks of the board I thought they just took a blowtorch to it, but I guess it was just a dead unit. Cool though!

indeed, what the hell happened to the PCB its all scorched haha :D

[Nephilim]

indeed, what the hell happened to the PCB its all scorched haha :D

It's just dielectric grease or liquid electrical tape, no doubt shamino has been running it under DI/phase.

[don_vercetti]

If you are brave enough to try nicking off the pain-In-tHe-asS on a working GeForce 8800, do tell us how it works out, right over at our forums.

That's at the end of the VR-Zone, would seem to indicate it was a fairly dead card.

[arisythila]

I would have thought Dielectric grease too.... Especially at VR-Zone...

~Mike

[Johnny Bravo]

Yeah def some form of sealant, they say it died from dry ice frost bite :)

[el rolio]

the card was dead before they took the IHS off, thats why they did it, cuz the card was dead so it was a good test subject. its just hte angle of hte image.

[ether.real]

man that is huge. and beautiful.

[EnJoY]

Comes off just like a S939 AMD. =)

[nn_step]

that is one massive die

[onewingedangel]

Not sure about the thickness of the thermal interface material, but contact looks pretty even - I certainly wouldn't risk removing the IHS on a £500 graphics card for probably small decreases in temperature/increases in clocks.

Nice to finally get an idea of the die size though, now we need a g80/r600 side by side comparison.

[XSAlliN]

Nice - Striptease! :)

[Rovtar]

ow nice :D

[largon]

Not sure about the thickness of the thermal interface material, but contact looks pretty even (...):confused:
I don't mean to be rude, but are we looking at the same picture here?

According to the pics the contact is absolutely horrid (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=53627&stc=1&d=1165523988)

There's really no core-die contact at all. :eek:
You can see there's a huge air bubble on top of the GPU instead of TIM. One might think the missing TIM would be stuck to the GPU core but the first picture has the GPU visible with mere stains of TIM. Layers of grey-goo TIM™ are nowhere to be seen.

Looks much worse than on S939 A64 (http://www.helsinki.fi/~llounent/Disintegrated_heat_spreader.jpg). :rolleyes:

[[XC] leviathan18]

omg pron beeatiful die and hughe

[ahmad]

Damn. No hope of anyone actually benching without the IHS :(

[Kanavit]

interesting pics, the core used apparently sponges instead of metal shims like the 7-series.

[Revv23]

its so big!

[xenolith]

:confused:
I don't mean to be rude, but are we looking at the same picture here?

According to the pics the contact is absolutely horrid (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=53627&stc=1&d=1165523988)

There's really no core-die contact at all. :eek:
You can see there's a huge air bubble on top of the GPU instead of TIM. One might think the missing TIM would be stuck to the GPU core but the first picture has the GPU visible with mere stains of TIM. Layers of grey-goo TIM™ are nowhere to be seen.

Looks much worse than on S939 A64 (http://www.helsinki.fi/~llounent/Disintegrated_heat_spreader.jpg). :rolleyes:

It looks to me like they wiped the TIM off the die... there's spots of it all over the PCB.

[JoeBar]

Why couldn't they release it without the ihs...?

[M.Beier]

MAN thats hardcore nude images!!!
hehe, bad-ass size GPU DIE, thats for sure.

[revenant]

I'd rather see that than Janet Jackson's nipple any day of the week. :D

[eXceededgoku]

lol, noone noticed my thread?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=125806

[NightCrawler™]

Uhm... oohms posted this on 12-07-2006, 10:14 AM you posted yours on 12-07-2006, 12:41 AM.... so he was earlier with his post...