ATI releases its own line of GDDR memory!

...and nvidia seems to be its first customer?

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3742&p=2

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7587/hahahlv.jpg

heheheh, just kidding, its a 40nm nvidia GT210 card from msi, so nvidia has nothing to do with it... and i guess ati just got some mem from samsung or hynix branded with their logo and sold it to their partners. both nvidia and ati tend to do this, buy large batches of gddr to get a discount and then sell them to their partners together with their gpus to help their partners out and allow them to offer lower priced cards. anyways, i dont think they intended msi or any of their other partners to use it on nvidia cards though ;)

hahahahaha^

MSI overclockable... ATi VMEM :D

killer gddr :D

That's freaking ownage :ROTF:. I wonder how Nvidia feels about that?

The PCB should be half red half green..

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1258004677 :D

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Originally Posted by zalbard

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...1&d=1258004677 :D

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i guess he couldn't wait until monday :ROTF:

I'd pick one of those up "for teh lulz"

I'd frame it, naked, with the die cleaned :D :p:

OMG! :ROTF:

This is hilarious :up:

haha ati mem for nvidia gpu... good to see them "co-operating"

hmmmm anandtech removed the pictures?
did anybody else notice that? :D

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Originally Posted by saaya

hmmmm anandtech removed the pictures?
did anybody else notice that? :D

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nop!

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3742&p=1

:rofl: Next we'll see Socket AM3 i7s :ROTF:

They believe in ANTI-MISCEGENATION Laws at Nvidia

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/...210/MSI210.jpg
http://www.morethings.com/fan/o_brot...rdoned-110.jpg
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/...10/ATIchip.jpg
http://www.morethings.com/fan/o_brot...rdoned-149.jpg
http://www.morethings.com/fan/o_brot...rdoned-151.jpg
http://www.morethings.com/fan/o_brot...rdoned-156.jpg
http://www.morethings.com/fan/o_brot...rdoned-157.jpghttp://apcmag.com/site/wp-content/up...-Huang-350.gif
http://www.morethings.com/fan/o_brot...rdoned-166.jpg

(Go watch O Brother Where Art Thou if this post is lost on you)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIKz1...eature=related

great movie

:rofl:

Bottled awesomeness.

MSI in a tight spot!

too funny! :D

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Originally Posted by Nedjo

nop!

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3742&p=1

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they were done yesterday... i tried it on 2 different pcs... weird... :D

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Originally Posted by saaya

they were done yesterday... i tried it on 2 different pcs... weird... :D

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I didn't saw it too the first time I went to Anand!
So don't worry it's not only you :D

so this is the great announcement of monday; Thank you Sascha, you gave us the details early!

Some better pictures here:

http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/mie...brana_skos.jpg

Close up:

http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/mie.../EPIC_FAIL.jpg

:clap:

Now, time for some whatifs.

What if agreement, when amd sells those memory chips to card manufacturers, there is line that denies use of those chips in competitor cards.

Now there would have been inadvequate supply of memory permitted to use on nVidia cards.

Manufacturer has chosen to risk and use those bought from ati on nVidia boards (maybe they have big oem order inside).

What would happen?

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Originally Posted by Lightman

I didn't saw it too the first time I went to Anand!
So don't worry it's not only you :D

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so they DID take it down... :D
but why? and why did they put it back up after a day? weird...
maybe they didnt want to cause msi any trouble :D

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Originally Posted by Mechanical Man

Now, time for some whatifs.
What if agreement, when amd sells those memory chips to card manufacturers, there is line that denies use of those chips in competitor cards.

Now there would have been inadvequate supply of memory permitted to use on nVidia cards.

Manufacturer has chosen to risk and use those bought from ati on nVidia boards (maybe they have big oem order inside).
What would happen?

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not much, i guess a conf call, maybe a visit of reps, some serious faces and :nono: but i dont think there would be lawsuits or punishments...
i think ati is probably laughing about this, if anything, msi risks pissng off nvidia :D