The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[GoldenTiger]

Anybody seen this yet?
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/fer...tage,9965.html

ASUS GTX480 50% faster with overvolting!
Overvolting? Seriously? I thought we were working with that safety bear to try to reduce household electrical fires.

Several days ago I saw the box shots and thought the same thing LOL.

[bamtan2]

Contradicting benchmarks and specs have been leaking since before the chip was even done. What does that tell you about the random data some people have been taking as facts.

This kind of misinformation has been happening since... Voodoo 5? Hopefully some people will learn a lesson, even though it is late. Be more skeptical.

This on the other hand you can trust:

Hawkeye
Mar 24, 2010 1:16 PM
We have permission for the disassembly guide, trust me

nesquick
Mar 24, 2010 2:49 PM
can you tell us qualitatively how good it is? ie: no numbers involved so as to protect the innocent :P

TheFrunj
Mar 24, 2010 2:58 PM
1t 40xx0rz my 50xx0rz :P

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Feature/...bly-guide.aspx

[MrDiaz]

Anybody seen this yet?
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/fer...tage,9965.html

ASUS GTX480 50% faster with overvolting!
Overvolting? Seriously? I thought we were working with that safety bear to try to reduce household electrical fires.

Thanks for the update, first post has been updated

[demonkevy666]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23079

with scaling like that with added memory where's a 4gb single card lol ?

[kromosto]

voltage tweaking and your card dies %50 faster

[GoldenTiger]

Contradicting benchmarks and specs have been leaking since before the chip was even done. What does that tell you about the random data some people have been taking as facts.

This kind of misinformation has been happening since... Voodoo 5? Hopefully some people will learn a lesson, even though it is late. Be more skeptical.

This on the other hand you can trust:

[*IMG]http://i.haymarket.net.au/Galleries/20100324113530_IMG_0204%20copy.jpg[/IMG]





http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Feature/...bly-guide.aspx

Yep.... good picture gallery, and I too don't really care at this point about #'s with all the insane amounts of contradictions around from unreliable sources right now... we're 2 days away from the truth, if that.

[MrDiaz]

Yep.... good picture gallery, and I too don't really care at this point about #'s with all the insane amounts of contradictions around from unreliable sources right now... we're 2 days away from the truth, if that.

Yeah but us tech savvies can't just "wait" for things to come out, we are always digging for little pieces of information, any leaks would make a lot of people happy. Plus not to mention how fun this is...

[Manicdan]

god that is one massive chunk of silicon,
i do like that heatsink, its good to know that even the ram is cooled, or actually it may be heated up depending on how badly the VRM heat output is.

[Trigger5521]

Specs in the table on this page say both cards will have 2xDVI and mini HDMI.

Really wanted to use displayport to the Dell 30'. WTF Nvidia??

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23008

[GoldenTiger]

Yeah but us tech savvies can't just "wait" for things to come out, we are always digging for little pieces of information, any leaks would make a lot of people happy. Plus not to mention how fun this is...

Me too, but... with 2 days left and no info that you can really even remotely claim is "solid" it isn't fun to me .

Specs in the table on this page say both cards will have 2xDVI and mini HDMI.

Really wanted to use displayport to the Dell 30'. WTF Nvidia??

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23008

Displayport isn't really on many monitors, and basically all monitors with it have HDMI/DVI anyway. What's the big deal here?

[bamtan2]

god that is one massive chunk of silicon

That is not silicon. (There is an error in that article where they, too, call it the chip)

What you see is the integrated heat spreader, or IHS. Many chip packages use this. The chips themselves are small and fragile and hard to fasten coolers to.

Here is a GTX 260 with it removed: http://www.overclock.net/gallery/data/500/IMG_0725.jpg

[Manicdan]

That is not silicon. (There is an error in that article where they, too, call it the chip)

What you see is the integrated heat spreader, or IHS. Many chip packages use this. The chips themselves are small and fragile and hard to fasten coolers to.

Here is a GTX 260 with it removed: http://www.overclock.net/gallery/data/500/IMG_0725.jpg

im familiar some use an IHS to cover the actual chip, didnt know nvidia did it, but it makes sense since it does seem about 2x too big. (dont think ATI does, and AMD only started to a few years back.)

[GoldenTiger]

MSRP are $399.99 for the 470, and $549.99 for the 480, apparrently... found them listed.

[-Sweeper_]

MSRP are $399.99 for the 470, and $549.99 for the 480, apparrently... found them listed.

where?

it better be at least 20% faster than HD5870 for that price

[azza21]

Not long now before i can buy my new card.

[GoldenTiger]

where?

it better be at least 20% faster than HD5870 for that price

I pre-ordered for now, can always cancel prior to ship if it's not a good card per reviews...

EDIT: I will put up the link to the vendor with it shortly, waiting for a friend to grab his pre-order before the masses fill the line .

EDIT2: OK, linkie: http://www.pcsuperstore.com/products...GTX480XPB.html

They also have the 470: http://www.pcsuperstore.com/products...GTX470XPB.html

Their prices have always been accurate in the past on prior launches such as GTX 280 and 5870...

[MrDiaz]

Hopefully the prices here in Canada don't go up when these come out, we always get the end of the stick

[Loque]

http://i.haymarket.net.au/Galleries/...216%20copy.jpg

this made me laugh a bit, good old memories from my crazy delta screamer

bet that one screams too with 1.8a & 21.6W

[jmke]

http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...70&postcount=1

NVIDIA and AMD charts are notorious to shaping benchmarks, settings, resolutions, AA/AF levels to have their products come out on top. So to say it with the same words.

"So yeah, don't read too hard into benchmark charts in reviewer's guidelines"

There is someone , or some group that is trying to mislead the fans with fake , undermined results for Fermi ,

hoping to accomplish what exactly? nobody can buy the cards now; the reviews are out in 2 days;

[trinibwoy]

hoping to accomplish what exactly?

Pure entertainment?

[annihilat0r]

so the $500-$350 figure looks right.

[GoldenTiger]

so the $500-$350 figure looks right.

Doesn't look right to me:

MSRP is listed on a live vendor site at $400 470, $550 480, and bestbuy shows $400 for the 470 as well. I called in with the SKU here and was told the same info of $400 listed in their system to correlate to this.

[zerazax]

Looks more like $400-550

We'll see if Nvidia is actually justifying their price with performance, or if this is just Nvidia applying the Nvidia tax... ("our $129 card has PhysX so its automatically faster" mentality)

[Marios]

CUDA Toolkit 3.0 now available

[natty]

nvidia is not undercutting ATi's price/performance ratio

Looks like we won't see price cuts for another 6 months