GTX260 Coming With New PCB Design to Cut Cost

Who cares about component placement?. Im sure Nvidia could place them more neatly if they deemed it necessary.

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Originally Posted by Serra

Gross.

I don't mind them creating a stripped-down version, but FFS they should re-label it. GTX 259 or something. Not re-labelling it does seem to follow the general GPU market trend of relabelling upwards at all times though, so at least they're consistent.

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Why would they re-label this? It offers the exact same performance as the old model out-of-the-box.


And what other name would they give to it?
GTX260 Less Overclockable Edition?

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Originally Posted by ToTTenTranz

Why would they re-label this? It offers the exact same performance as the old model out-of-the-box.


And what other name would they give it?
GTX260 Less Overclockable Edition?

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Does it? Stock speeds may be the same, but I might argue things like lower quality voltage regulation mean higher failure rate.

Their stance that a reduced feature set is logically equivalent to their current offering is flawed. They can even keep it as a 260, but maybe add on another infamous ending (ie. GTX, GS, GTO, GT, etc... they can make another). Some way for people to be able to differentiate.

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Originally Posted by Serra

Does it? Stock speeds may be the same, but I might argue things like lower quality voltage regulation mean higher failure rate.

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1 - Failure rate is not the same as performance.
2 - There's no hardproof that this new PCB will bring higher failure rate.

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Originally Posted by ToTTenTranz

1 - Failure rate is not the same as performance.
2 - There's no hardproof that this new PCB will bring higher failure rate.

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1. It's not the same as performance in terms of speed, but it's sure as hell the same in terms of reliability.

2. Only an NV marketing agent would even consider saying that. 1 design uses a higher grade of power regulation than the other, yet the other would have the same failure rate? Not a chance. "There's no proof..." my a$$.


Incidentally, those other features - ie. reliability, performance voltage regulation etc. - are DEFINITELY things NV uses in marketing to sell parts. So to change those and claim there's no difference is clearly a violation.

Whats the point in crying the sky is falling before the cards are out.

Until we see new cards that actually under perform, fail prematurely or god forbid be every bit as good to better than what we already have its all arm chair quarterbacking.

Exclusive Look at P897 Inno3D GeForce GTX260

We said the third-generation GTX260 design plan “P897/D10U-20″ would be surfaced quite soon. Compared with earlier P654 design plan, P897 plan is expected to save cost of $10 to $15, which makes the products more competitive.

Now we manage to get more details of P897 GTX260 which features reference design. This card will enter into mass production from next week, but the pricing is unknown yet.............
http://en.expreview.com/img/2009/02/11/P897_Inno3D1.jpg
Source: Expreview more pictures