The official GT300/Fermi Thread

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Originally Posted by zalbard

Was fishy, though, he mentioned USB monitor also, very weird.

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I was quite sure it was fishy right from the beginning. NVIDIA might have a few cards running but why would they give such an amount of cards to one person? Just doesn't make any sense at all imho.

With USB-monitors such things could be meant:
http://www.lindy.de/usb-2-vga-adapter/42983.html

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Originally Posted by zalbard

LOL, and I actually believed it... Was fishy, though, he mentioned USB monitor also, very weird.

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Maybe not that weird after all:

http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...-A1&family=USB

so anyone have cold hard fact of proven fermi performance??? or is it all going to be some lame video claiming it rendered some movie who came out 6month ago???

Theres no hard anything about Fermi's actual performance.

Specs aren't even hard yet.


Thats how little we really know about it.

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Originally Posted by saaya

:rofl:

you might not get the hint, but hes just bsing to make fun of people who desperately wait for gt300 :D

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It was confirmed by Folding Forum as fake.

To me it was very strange right from the start.

It was first posted at EVGA forum by FahMan with single post at that forum. The link he provided in that post www.fahmanfolding.webs.com doesn't work.

Strange that FahMan would have 7 Fermi's, which is about 7 more than Jen-Hsun Huang could display at the GPU Technology Conference September 30, 2009, (not counting the ones with wood screws or funny wiring). :)

Talonman who used to flood the Xtreme News Forum with many threads and posts about the NVIDIA CUDA and PhysX used the single FahMan post to start another thread about it at the same EVGA forum.

Right now the last post in that thread (#49):

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Well, the speculation was fun while it lasted

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Did you guys see this?
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...as-Fermi/News/

come on

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Originally Posted by Anemic

Did you guys see this?
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...as-Fermi/News/

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good to read at morning lol

Meh, the author is a good guy and just trying to strike up some discussion and hits. Nothing wrong with that.

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Originally Posted by Farinorco

: I'm not trying to say that Fermi "will suck" as a 3D rendering device, or that it's going to be exactly equal than GT200. I'm not a fortune-teller, and using logic, I suppose that part of the changes will be benefitial also to 3D rendering tasks. But what it's obvious is that NV is focusing a lot on the HPC market lately, and they are including lots of features based on that market on their chips. And that features, will have a cost in transistors and surface.

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These are my thoughts as well. I do hope for our sakes that it does well and is competitive ( and in more than just performance, competitive *ALL* around which is what truly matters ; power usage, cost, scalability ect ) I am personally worried about power usage and cost myself. I am expecting their high end single gpu part to have a TDP of 225-250 which isn't that attractive. As far as realworld usage though, I do expect it to be under 200 ( eg games )

Either Nvidia are worried about where Fermi stands gaming wise or they are confident and are just playing up the CUDA side of things as a plus and not the main dish. Again the proof is in the pudding so until we see something concrete is it still speculation and guesswork at best.

lol@ the youtube video...

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they are expected to sell like hotcakes, especially in ati fanboy villages, here... and here...

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:lol:

comparing atis and nvidias financial situations though... shouldnt it be the ati guys sitting in a bunker sorrounded by enemies? ;)

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Originally Posted by Heinz68

Strange that FahMan would have 7 Fermi's, which is about 7 more than Jen-Hsun Huang could display at the GPU Technology Conference September 30, 2009, (not counting the ones with wood screws or funny wiring). :)

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:rofl:
He must be the real secret owner of Nvidia! Conspiracy! :ROTF:

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Originally Posted by OutSider

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1365/54632720.png describes this guy

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The guy that made this is definitely lacking some brain functions regarding Logic. How can that hand smell like lotion, when the penis locations is empty. :shakes: From this point of view, part of that so called description, could be related to nVidia Fangirl (not boy).

Anyway doesn't really matter, is just busyness.

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Originally Posted by DilTech

Old school computer users still haven't gotten over back when ATi cards couldn't run opengl at all during opengl's hey-day, claiming it wasn't important.

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Wise words... Ohhh wise words. Back on Ati Rage and TNT days... Even before...

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Originally Posted by Heinz68

It was confirmed by Folding Forum as fake.

To me it was very strange right from the start.

It was first posted at EVGA forum by FahMan with single post at that forum. The link he provided in that post www.fahmanfolding.webs.com doesn't work.

Strange that FahMan would have 7 Fermi's, which is about 7 more than Jen-Hsun Huang could display at the GPU Technology Conference September 30, 2009, (not counting the ones with wood screws or funny wiring). :)

Talonman who used to flood the Xtreme News Forum with many threads and posts about the NVIDIA CUDA and PhysX used the single FahMan post to start another thread about it at the same EVGA forum.

Right now the last post in that thread (#49):

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FahMan's results are not fake. He gets legitimate points from a single place, despite the fact everybody is watching him.
Folding@Home, analyzed the number of processors and GPUs FahMan uses as follows.

Uniprocessor (sloooow CPU client) : 168
SMP (high performance CPU client) : 25
GPU Clients: 73
Total : 266 clients.

The verdict is that FahMan is probably using workstations at work or school.
I'd like to come back here after the release of Fermi and see the way 6.5 GPUs appear at Folding@Home.

Liquid CO2

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Originally Posted by Heinz68

It was confirmed by Folding Forum as fake.

To me it was very strange right from the start.

It was first posted at EVGA forum by FahMan with single post at that forum. The link he provided in that post www.fahmanfolding.webs.com doesn't work.

Strange that FahMan would have 7 Fermi's, which is about 7 more than Jen-Hsun Huang could display at the GPU Technology Conference September 30, 2009, (not counting the ones with wood screws or funny wiring). :)

Talonman who used to flood the Xtreme News Forum with many threads and posts about the NVIDIA CUDA and PhysX used the single FahMan post to start another thread about it at the same EVGA forum.

Right now the last post in that thread (#49):

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fermi was there. they demoed an nbody simulation on it. they even said the silicon was a few days old. i am guessing you didnt watch it.

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Originally Posted by Anemic

Did you guys see this?
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...as-Fermi/News/

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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Originally Posted by Chumbucket843

fermi was there. they demoed an nbody simulation on it. they even said the silicon was a few days old. i am guessing you didnt watch it.

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Sure if we can see it, it's real :D

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Originally Posted by AbelJemka

Sure if we can see it, it's real :D

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it does have more chances to be real than to see nothing at all, right?

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Originally Posted by Luka_Aveiro

it does have more chances to be real than to see nothing at all, right?

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http://andreworlowski.com/wp-content...to_believe.jpg

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Originally Posted by Chumbucket843

fermi was there. they demoed an nbody simulation on it. they even said the silicon was a few days old. i am guessing you didnt watch it.

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"I have one sitting right here. This, ladies and gentlemen, this puppy right here, is Fermi."
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6919/fakefermi.jpg

Sure I did watch it . Hard to miss it since it was posted on thousands sites all over the world. I actually watched the live broadcast eager to learn more about the Fermi.

The fact is the puppy was not Fermi. Initially the NVIDIA PR denied it was a fake, I can only guess some commutation problem there. Only later NVIDiA confirmed it was mock-up.

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The real engineering sample card is full of dangling wires. Basically, it looks like an octopus of modules and wires and the top brass at Nvidia didn't want to give that thing to Jensen.

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Now why should I believe the rest of the story?

Anyway the point I was trying to make is, if the engineering sample was in that stage, than FahMan could hardly have seven of the octopus Fermi.

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Originally Posted by Marios

FahMan's results are not fake.

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The talk is about the 7 Fermis he claimed to have and the folding was done on and that was a fake.

The point some people in this thread want to make is:
Some "nobody" on the internet has 7 working "fermis", while Nvidia's CEO couldn't have even one for his presentation.
:ROTF:

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Thank you,

Serra

I read Nvidia got a second tap out of fermis a while ago.
What happened to the first alpha fermis?
We know they had no video out and were no good for any presentation.
Though they should be good for folding.
How comes and someone uses workstations at work or school 24 hours a day?
I mean, even though I don't believe FahMan is using fermis, it still is a mystery what he is folding on and I cannot exclude a slight probability he is actually folding on fermis.
FahMan became a legend just in a few days, braking every statistics and he is still folding.
He also gave us a hint that we need to create 16 clients to fold with fermi.
Is this correct? How did he know?