asus 4gb gtx295

[Talonman]

i heard the price will be 699$ more or less?

Can you say where from?

I would love to know the official price.

[Vivi]

wonder who gets card number 666/1000, that would be cool .

This card.. wow... just sad that its exacly what we need, and only a 1000 will be made

[GAR]

wonder who gets card number 666/1000, that would be cool .

This card.. wow... just sad that its exacly what we need, and only a 1000 will be made

sure if you worship the devil

[NapalmV5]

only asus?

evga? others?

[Talonman]

sure if you worship the devil

I would rather get #7.

[sholvaco]

only asus?

evga? others?

It's a rogue venture by ASUS themselves.

Evga might follow suite since they can't seem to live with themselves unless they're on top of everything that has to do with nvidia.

Yo evga, make me a custom red one!

[Talonman]

How many amps does it require?

[jaredpace]

sure if you worship the devil

[metachronos]

This card looks a bit plain for an ASUS card. They always seem to like putting demonic ninjas and other weird on the coolers. They need to spice it up!

[ShArKo]

and 10,000 people JUST at Xs sitting there with terminal wood looking at this card!

you right......everybody here is seaching this card.... Please god.....just seend me that card.....and I will buy a chernobyl plant to use it :p :p

[clo007]

love the look of this card

[Gunslinger]

I must say I'd buy 2 if they were readily available. I wonder if the current 295 waterblocks would fit them...

[Vivi]

sure if you worship the devil

why say that

[gumballguy]

Seriously.. what is that second fan above the cpu pot attached to? It looks like a flying saucer

[[XC] gomeler]

Seriously.. what is that second fan above the cpu pot attached to? It looks like a flying saucer

it is blowing on the PWM heatsink

[saaya]

i'd wager it uses the same board as standard 295, so i'd doubt it.

how? the default 295 pcb is not 512bit... and no, look at the shape of the pcb, i dont think its the same pcb

the only practical reason for this card is for some crazy sckt 775 performance on an intel chipset board

good point... either that or quadsli... otherwise 2 gtx285 cards in sli will probably clock better, or at least cost less, notably less

No, I didnt insulate, just a 20 min run to get a score

sweet, so this is far from the top... cant wait for some serious action... too bad you wont be at computex... but i take it you will clock these during computex time? or when can we expect new world records?

Seriously.. what is that second fan above the cpu pot attached to? It looks like a flying saucer

its sitting on one of the screws of the pot

[eva2000]

wow monster card indeed... wish i had 2 of them for some fun hehe

[Tonucci]

The mainstream standard today is 512Mb GDDR, so most games are designed with this in mind (you might have to lower the settings depending on the game etc..)

I dont know if theres any game, even on a 30" and 8x AA that actually uses more than 1Gb GDDR....The bottleneck is usually elsewhere, other than vRAM capacity (1gb).

I cant envision 1Gb per GPU being an bottleneck, much less 2Gb x2. Whe the time comes that >1Gb is used by games the gtx295 march will be obsolete imo.

I may be out of the loop but I think its just for average joe braggin rights.

Do any review show improvements with 2Gb ram per GPU over 1Gb ? Including multi card extreme setup and game settings ?

[3NZ0]

Amazing bit of kit.

What the 295 should have been from the beginning, without a doubt.


The large 2gb per chip could be great for high aa+tex in quad sli or cuda related work.

[Zaskar]

Does this use Solid State parts to eliminate the whine coming from the chokes that is quite audible over the sound of the fan (and the rest of the computer's fans) that starts to happen and gets louder when under increasing load?

[saaya]

The mainstream standard today is 512Mb GDDR, so most games are designed with this in mind (you might have to lower the settings depending on the game etc..)

I dont know if theres any game, even on a 30" and 8x AA that actually uses more than 1Gb GDDR....The bottleneck is usually elsewhere, other than vRAM capacity (1gb).

I cant envision 1Gb per GPU being an bottleneck, much less 2Gb x2. Whe the time comes that >1Gb is used by games the gtx295 march will be obsolete imo.

I may be out of the loop but I think its just for average joe braggin rights.

Do any review show improvements with 2Gb ram per GPU over 1Gb ? Including multi card extreme setup and game settings ?

your out of the loop, more frame buffer helps a lot in sli. dont ask me why, but it helps, quite significantly, in high res in AA sli...

[saaya]

btw, the card doesnt use nf200! LOL

thats really interesting
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/09-05-28/2a.jpg
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/09-05-28/2b.jpg

5phase digital pwm per gpu! thats 2 phases more than the 295 dual or single pcb!

[sholvaco]

PLX or Lucid Hydra?

[Talonman]

Yes... By what means do the 2 cards communicate?

[saaya]

seems to be smaller than the plx chip on 4870x2... could be a new chip though

PLX
IDT
Hydra

could be any of those 3... but i think most likely its plx...