Several days ago I saw the box shots and thought the same thing LOL.
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Contradicting benchmarks and specs have been leaking since before the chip was even done. What does that tell you about the random data some people have been taking as facts.
This kind of misinformation has been happening since... Voodoo 5? Hopefully some people will learn a lesson, even though it is late. Be more skeptical.
This on the other hand you can trust:
http://i.haymarket.net.au/Galleries/...204%20copy.jpg
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Hawkeye
Mar 24, 2010 1:16 PM
We have permission for the disassembly guide, trust me :)
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Feature/...bly-guide.aspxQuote:
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nesquick
Mar 24, 2010 2:49 PM
can you tell us qualitatively how good it is? ie: no numbers involved so as to protect the innocent :P
Mar 24, 2010 2:58 PM
1t 40xx0rz my 50xx0rz :P
voltage tweaking and your card dies %50 faster
god that is one massive chunk of silicon,
i do like that heatsink, its good to know that even the ram is cooled, or actually it may be heated up depending on how badly the VRM heat output is.
Specs in the table on this page say both cards will have 2xDVI and mini HDMI.
Really wanted to use displayport to the Dell 30'. WTF Nvidia??
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23008
Me too, but... with 2 days left and no info that you can really even remotely claim is "solid" it isn't fun to me :).
Displayport isn't really on many monitors, and basically all monitors with it have HDMI/DVI anyway. What's the big deal here?
That is not silicon. (There is an error in that article where they, too, call it the chip)
What you see is the integrated heat spreader, or IHS. Many chip packages use this. The chips themselves are small and fragile and hard to fasten coolers to.
Here is a GTX 260 with it removed: http://www.overclock.net/gallery/data/500/IMG_0725.jpg
MSRP are $399.99 for the 470, and $549.99 for the 480, apparrently... found them listed.
Not long now before i can buy my new card.
http://i39.tinypic.com/hup1z6.jpg
http://www.trizzeo.com/assets/golden...ergtx480pc.jpg
I pre-ordered for now, can always cancel prior to ship if it's not a good card per reviews...
EDIT: I will put up the link to the vendor with it shortly, waiting for a friend to grab his pre-order before the masses fill the line :p: .
EDIT2: OK, linkie: http://www.pcsuperstore.com/products...GTX480XPB.html
They also have the 470: http://www.pcsuperstore.com/products...GTX470XPB.html
Their prices have always been accurate in the past on prior launches such as GTX 280 and 5870...
Hopefully the prices here in Canada don't go up when these come out, we always get the end of the stick :(
http://i.haymarket.net.au/Galleries/...216%20copy.jpg
this made me laugh a bit, good old memories from my crazy delta screamer :D
bet that one screams too with 1.8a & 21.6W :eek:
NVIDIA and AMD charts are notorious to shaping benchmarks, settings, resolutions, AA/AF levels to have their products come out on top. So to say it with the same words.
"So yeah, don't read too hard into benchmark charts in reviewer's guidelines"
hoping to accomplish what exactly? nobody can buy the cards now; the reviews are out in 2 days;
so the $500-$350 figure looks right.
Doesn't look right to me:
MSRP is listed on a live vendor site at $400 470, $550 480, and bestbuy shows $400 for the 470 as well. I called in with the SKU here and was told the same info of $400 listed in their system to correlate to this.
http://www.trizzeo.com/assets/goldentiger/bb480.jpg
Looks more like $400-550
We'll see if Nvidia is actually justifying their price with performance, or if this is just Nvidia applying the Nvidia tax... ("our $129 card has PhysX so its automatically faster" mentality)
nvidia is not undercutting ATi's price/performance ratio :(
Looks like we won't see price cuts for another 6 months