The official GT300/Fermi Thread

[LordEC911]

according to pcgh, nvidia told them that gt300 will go for a re-spin before itll be sold to retail iirc? but doing a respin in around 4 weeks? is that even possible? hot lots again?

Well, I don't know much about hotlots other than how risky they are. Respins usually take 6-8weeks to get back from TSMC, which means they will get it back the middle of Nov.

So, best case for Nvidia if this next spin is good to go and they start ramping production, they might get a handful of wafers ready for the end of the year, like I said before, maybe a couple hundred cards.

Nvidia it self is promoting CPU-GPU software that means the GF100 cores will be used in higher percentage than games. Other than that the GF100 seems to have 8 + 6 instead of 6 + 6, if rumors are to be believed and GF100 does eat around 230W spread around 8 + 6 and PCIe slot the X2 would most likely have 8 + 8 instead of 8 + 6 used in GTX 295 "If a shrunk is not used"

Again... you cannot use an 8+8pin on a "single" GPU, you will not pass PCI SIG certification.