It's a public forum is all I'm saying until this thing is reviewed by someone we can all trust then woop de doo. Neither he nor you can be proven or dissproven at this point.
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ok, calm down children
As long as these things aren't 4890s all will be well. The 4870s were fairly respectable noise wise with the stock fan profile / heatsink design. Given it is has a similar max board power but also a full length pcb / heatsink, it should be just as quiet if not more so. I was never one of those OCD types who'd complain about 80+ load temps so I have no problem with these thigns getting hot if ATI says they can ( used my 4870x2 with stock profile from day one with no artifacts / thermal issues at 90-95C on the hotter of the 2 cores )
The progession of this thread (which has been hilarious for me since its all speculation at this point).
First reports: :fact:
Interest and ATI fan celebrations: banana3: :banana2: :rehab: :banana:
Nvidia Cronies chime in: :soap:
Arguments commence :argue:
Goes way off topic: :eleph:
So what is it we can see? Well despite speculations from either side at least they have more to offer than Intel ha! :P
I see the GDDR5 still doesnt downclock in 2d.
Well seeing as how I am at work, I cannot see the pictures.
This morning there was a couple shots of a 5800 series card idling at 157/300...
Here-
http://www.xtremesystems.org/FORUMS/...postcount=1156
and this was posted-
So obviously GDDR5 is downclocking.
I also mentioned this earlier-
there is ore than 1 picture, some show 300mhz for the memory
Isn't GDDR5 4 data cycles per clock, so 300mhz => 1200mhz?
I read 300MHz too
http://i30.tinypic.com/2py6edh.png
Again, I don't understand what the heck you people are comparing here... Based on pricing - the only meaningful base for market viability comparisons - 285 will fight 5870 and 295's counterpart ill be most likely the X2 and both cases NV gets spanked pretty badly.
Once they bring out GT300 the story will change but I have serious bets it won't happen this year - IIRC each respin takes 2-3 months and it's mid-September already and we know from more than one sources that NV is having serious issues...
no info about 5870 device-id yet ?
Question for the Gurus.
Remember a game called DOOM 3 where it had really bad AF on cards and gave you a stairstep effect or *shimmering*
will these new cards fix that issue becuse thats what really bothered me in that game the most.
We just need a shot from AF Tester of a flat plane. That will give you a good clue as to whether or not shimmer will be an issue.
So when does the nda lift?
is not today ? (thursday)
On my HIS 4870 I get 65c at 30% fan speed(idle). (corrected) Looks like these new cards get about 40c at 20% fan speed.(idle) That actually seems better than my 4870.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...s/idleat20.jpg
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...s/idleat20.jpg
Not sure who's really going to have their fan up at 100% at idle. LOL
"Hey man, that's a scream'n loud card ya got there."
"Yeah, I leave like this 24/7 so I can have a 31c card temp..cool, huh?"
"Ummm, no, it isn't"
LOL
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A.../idleat100.jpg
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A.../idleat100.jpg