Nvidia Fermi GF100 working desktop card spotted on Facebook

[vab206]

Anyone else noticed the other setup on top of this one (upper right corner)?

i was just about to point this out when i seen your post, no proof that the "fermi" system is actually hooked up to the shown monitor and really makes me wonder since there is another setup sitting literally right above it. it could be a demo setup (top system) seing as it has a sound card installed to draw people to a booth, but this is pure speculation.

[trinibwoy]

I'm starting to believe AMD is planting people to come up with these conspiracy theories. I don't think normal people are this paranoid. Especially about a video card.

[Lightman]

I'm starting to believe AMD is planting people to come up with these conspiracy theories. I don't think normal people are this paranoid. Especially about a video card.

I would say that this is not AMD behind, but Aliens!
They are preparing invasion on Earth slated for 2012/12/21 and because Fermi is so powerful they are afraid that humanity will be able to decipher their secrets using it. That's way they are sabotaging G100 design and manufacturing, plus they seed FUD around computer forums!

[VoodooProphetII]

I don't think normal people are this paranoid. Especially about a video card.

At last. Someone is seeing the light. I think this whole thread, including the first picture and altered / modified picture is quite pathetic.

[annihilat0r]

i was just about to point this out when i seen your post, no proof that the "fermi" system is actually hooked up to the shown monitor and really makes me wonder since there is another setup sitting literally right above it. it could be a demo setup (top system) seing as it has a sound card installed to draw people to a booth, but this is pure speculation.

what the hell are you talking about? this is pathetic. reading too much charlie recently, all you people? you indeed believe nvidia could not have made a dx11 card that actually works?

[marten_larsson]

Well, a bit of scepticism is probably needed seeing as Nvidia showed a Fermi over a month ago which turned out to be completely false. This time it looks a bit more realistic though...

[FischOderAal]

Well, a bit of scepticism is probably needed seeing as Nvidia showed a Fermi over a month ago which turned out to be completely false. This time it looks a bit more realistic though...

Not completely. The PCB was (partly xD) valid as we now know, it was just sawed off

Yes, sceptisism is needed (as always in PR), but this conspiracies go way too far. I'm not very positive towards NVIDIA in general, but geez, there's no need to leave your brain in bed! They've got working silicon, as reported by various sites, and all they needed for this picture was just that. Maybe Fermi run at 100 MHz for this picture, who knows, but faking this picture? Heck, even I think this is very very very very [...] very far-fetched...

[BenchZowner]

nVIDIA has no working Fermi cards unfortunately.
It's sad but true, none of them can render anything on a monitor.
The debugger says they're fine, but no output

[flopper]

Obviosly photoshopped.

[FischOderAal]

nVIDIA has no working Fermi cards unfortunately.
It's sad but true, none of them can render anything on a monitor.
The debugger says they're fine, but no output

Are you kidding? If true then I = #fail and I will never ever believe anything NVIDIA said again. That would mean our conspiracy fellows were right

So even the Fermis at the HPC-fair aren't working?!

[h0bbes]

My knowledge of how graphics cards are made and work is pretty much non existant but how is it possible for Fermi not to work at all? I would expect a company full of (pretty good) engineers/computer scientists to at least make a gfx card that works but maybe not as well as they hoped for. (Unless i misunderstood what BenchZowner is saying)

[FischOderAal]

My knowledge in how graphics cards are made and work is pretty much non existant but how is it possible for Fermi not to work at all? I would expect a company full of (pretty good) engineers/computer scientists to at least make a gfx card that works but maybe not as well as they hoped for. (Unless i misunderstood what BenchZowner is saying)

Yeah, I still hope he's just trying to take the mickey out of us.

[Lightman]

Yeah, I still hope he's just trying to take the mickey out of us.

He is ....

[annihilat0r]

nVIDIA has no working Fermi cards unfortunately.
It's sad but true, none of them can render anything on a monitor.
The debugger says they're fine, but no output

Yeah. They have got A2 silicon back and put that on a PCB but when they turn the computer on it won't boot. Nvidia engineers are trying to solve the issue by opening troubleshooting threads at Tomshardware forums and asking the community.

notjensen says: HAY GUYZ I accidentally a new card but it won't boot what might be causing the problem? here are my specs

[Helloworld_98]

My knowledge of how graphics cards are made and work is pretty much non existant but how is it possible for Fermi not to work at all? I would expect a company full of (pretty good) engineers/computer scientists to at least make a gfx card that works but maybe not as well as they hoped for. (Unless i misunderstood what BenchZowner is saying)

they do work, it's just that nvidia can't make half decent drivers for geforce fermi (apparently, it could just be that they had 500MHz clocks and disabled 25% of the cores but who knows?)

[Solus Corvus]

Wow, this thread has taken a turn for the worse, if that's possible. More blanket insults being thrown around. People not bothering to read. Disproven assertions being reasserted. Sarcasm detector failures. And general failures of logic.

What a shining example, lol.

[Aerwidh]

[thatdude90210]

I'm starting to believe AMD is planting people to come up with these conspiracy theories. I don't think normal people are this paranoid. Especially about a video card.

After Nvidia's CEO went on stage and held out a sawed off mockup proclaiming "this puppy is Fermi," AMD really didn't have to do anything to encourage the stories of conspiracy. The stories sorta write themselves.

[Blacky]

^ AMD even called the fermi on a slide "Paper Dragon" if i remember...

[trinibwoy]

Perhaps, but people are putting a lot of effort into convincing OTHER people about their conspiracies too. That's a whole other level.

And if anybody believes that Nvidia's engineers really forgot how to send an image to a monitor they should pull their head out. They don't even have to convert it to analog first anymore.

[BenchZowner]

He is ....

This man's sarcasm detector is working
Yay, gratz

I wouldn't mind young fellas acting like some people here, but if you are grown ups ( that is 21 yrs old + ) then you seriously need to get yourselves checked up...

[zalbard]

Wow, is this thread about a single random image with no proof still going?

[Shadov]

Im amazed how much people can discuss (back and forth) a (stupid) picture on facebook...

/facepalm

[BenchZowner]

But...what would happen if there was no 2nd PC in the picture ?

[Helloworld_98]

Im amazed how much people can discuss (back and forth) a (stupid) picture on facebook...

/facepalm

we're internet people's. we can do that kinda stuff