The GT300/Fermi Thread

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You sure it's not your mainboard? Imho you should test it in a friend's computer as well. The chances to get that much hardware doa are small, don't you think? Only had one piece of hardware arrive dead.



Exactly what I'm thinking. Would it be that hard to show a few numbers, even on early silicon? I mean, they could say "it's early hardware so it can improve" and keep ppl from buying HD-5k.

Same thing came to my mind, after all that issues i would have started to think about, mobo, PSU, some kind of bad contact, etc...

only if they suck... if they are great it will make people camp on their cash

wasnt that the whole point of nvidias pr hype late last year at GTC?
dont buy atis 5xxx cards, fermi is coming soon and look how great it performs and what you can do with it!

now that they COULD create some REAL hype with actual numbers and performance... they only have a very small show at ces and dont talk about perf at all... hmmmmmmmmm why could that be?

im not saying fermi perf sucks, but its clearly not as amazing and way faster than atis cards as some people think, and as nvidia claimed... otherwise they would def show off some numbers or at least make some bold claims like "up to 50% higher perf" and "we will blow ati out of the sky" etc etc...

Well, Ferni is not a gaming GPU, so gaming numbers will be OK but the real money is in GPGPU it is 2.5x faster than GT200 (in GTC last year with a1 sillicon maybe and low clocks), so asking for a 4x4 to show how fast it is in a highway is not how you would like to show it even though it will be used the most there.

Good point, a 8800GTS (G92) and 7800GTX run fine on the board

It is a dead card as the fan spins, and I get the BIOS beep codes for "no VGA detected".

I have tested using both PCIe x16 2.0 slots and DVi connections.

It's technically only my second DOA as the other 2 cards became defective after time (1st was the notorious pink dots problem, the other developed black flashing black retangles and the Black Screen of Death issue).

Inbetween those 2 was a DOA which posted, but died after 10mins.

If you ask me BFG should have been stricter with the binning on their GT200 cards, I cannot comment for GT200b cards as this one was a DOA and would not even POST.

I guess these are the issues you get with huge dies and cores, meaning that the slightest issue can manifest iteself over time?
Fingers crossed Fermi does not go through this.....but I fear with the high power consumption it may do, as more power = more heat = damage.

I am losing faith in BFG and dare I say it nVidia after the issues I have had with GTX 280 and 285. If only the grass truly was greener on the ATi side....

John

PSU? maybe a shortcircuit somewhere? you need to give a lot more details to try to solve the issue or buy an ATI card and see if it works OK that could rule "other" components.