The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[To(V)bo Co(V)bo]

Has anyone looked into ARTIFACTING? At these high temps I bet artifacts are going to be very common. Even overclocking has to be suspect. Just think about if Fermi artifacts right out the box, that would be awesome.

What about a nice dust clogged fermi heatsink, what effect will this have on load temps? I theink fermi is gonna literally be a RMA HELL.

Water boils at 100c, I wouldnt be surprised if the dvi and hdmi cables melt off the back of the card.

[purefun65]

are you ready? yes but sadly you missed the mark! shrink it and rework than ill be ready!!!!

[grimREEFER]

i really quite like the exposed grill of the 480. can easily put fans beneath it and have them blow directly on the heatsink.
i hope we see this type of design more often.

[purefun65]

looking like a gpgpu nightmare for a 24/7/365 power consumption

[purefun65]

To be honest i wouldn't touch this until the next nanometer shrink. man what a waste of power

[Bobsama]

I don't know if anyone has already posted it (I'm sure it has been)...

XLR8 GeForce GTX 480

* Core Clock: 700 MHz
* Processor Cores: 480
* Processor Clock: 1401 MHz
* Texture Fill Rate: 42.0 Billion/sec.
* Memory Amount: 1536MB GDDR5
* Memory Data Rate, effective: 3696 MHz
* Memory Interface: 384-bit
* Memory Bandwidth: 177.4 GB/sec.

$499.99


XLR8 GeForce GTX 470

* Core Clock: 607 MHz
* Processor Cores: 448
* Processor Clock: 1215 MHz
* Texture Fill Rate: 34.0 Billion/sec.
* Memory Amount: 1280MB GDDR5
* Memory Data Rate, effective: 3348 MHz
* Memory Interface: 320-bit
* Memory Bandwidth: 133.9 GB/sec.

$349.99

[jazkat]

im sure i read in a review that nvidia recommends water cooling for tri sli...

i have to say that the cards have a few cons but seems like a decent purchase for future games like the 8800, i think the gtx480 will last a good couple of years

[purefun65]

this is like the first draft of a novel. looks to intel with larabee. shoudn't have been released. intel knew they needed to rework. nvidia failed!

[dengyong]

EVGA 480/470 HC FTW

No more evga WTF HC for me after all the DOA 280s.
evga said the water block was too heavy, damaging the PCB during shipping so they shipped me a second DOA card with "safer packaging". Rather than use their foam lined box I received this...

as shipped, needless to say it was DOA as well, so after six+ weeks, $800+ invested never having a working card and many many hours on the phone, I painfully extracted a full refund from evga.

[purefun65]

I have 2 sli rigs. I find this power consumption absurd

[Svnth]

are you ready? yes but sadly you missed the mark! shrink it and rework than ill be ready!!!!

looking like a gpgpu nightmare for a 24/7/365 power consumption

To be honest i wouldn't touch this until the next nanometer shrink. man what a waste of power

this is like the first draft of a novel. looks to intel with larabee. shoudn't have been released. intel knew they needed to rework. nvidia failed!

I have 2 sli rigs. I find this power consumption absurd

Who exactly is paying you to write this stuff? Is there any particular reason you're choosing to pollute the thread with consecutive posts like this? You're not even in any sort of discussion... you must just like seeing your name flash up on your LCD?

[orangekiwii]

I have 2 sli rigs. I find this power consumption absurd

we know, you've only posted 5 times in the last two pages

[purefun65]

what im saying is all this wait and hype for this!

[Sushi Warrior]

Has anyone looked into ARTIFACTING? At these high temps I bet artifacts are going to be very common. Even overclocking has to be suspect. Just think about if Fermi artifacts right out the box, that would be awesome.

What about a nice dust clogged fermi heatsink, what effect will this have on load temps? I theink fermi is gonna literally be a RMA HELL.

Water boils at 100c, I wouldnt be surprised if the dvi and hdmi cables melt off the back of the card.

It runs at 95C but only runs at ~70% fan speed, it is not maxed out.

And the HD4850 was also very hot, 100C+ was not unusual at all. This is designed to run at 100C.

Also the core is at 100C, it's not like the backplate is running at 100C.....

[Sn0wm@n]

in b4 first heat related rma

[GoldenTiger]

it runs at 95c but only runs at ~70% fan speed, it is not maxed out.

And the hd4850 was also very hot, 100c+ was not unusual at all. This is designed to run at 100c.

Also the core is at 100c, it's not like the backplate is running at 100c.....

qft.

[Sadasius]

Who exactly is paying you to write this stuff? Is there any particular reason you're choosing to pollute the thread with consecutive posts like this? You're not even in any sort of discussion... you must just like seeing your name flash up on your LCD?

Don't get angry for him having an opinion which is common in this thread. The card is a bust for many and not so much for others. To each their own! It's a deal breaker for me because of the heat. I cannot look past that myself.

[bamtan2]

Most of the review nerds are missing the mark. Even the few with useful benchmarks don't see the conclusion in front of their faces. Well, it IS hot and loud, they did get that part right.

It will be two months before people really get it. The value of an overclocked 5850 wasn't realized right away either.

Mark my words down. Things will look different when people are paying attention to minimum framerates on their overclocked 470s with giant heatsinks. People will be saying What 5870?

[Svnth]

Don't get angry for him having an opinion which is common in this thread. The card is a bust for many and not so much for others. To each their own! It's a deal breaker for me because of the heat. I cannot look past that myself.

You think this has anything to do with my concern for his opinion? Did you not just see the 5 posts he made back to back, saying the same thing and containing absolutely no information? Fairly annoying.

[Sadasius]

Whining about it does not make it better.

[purefun65]

lokk im not trying to annoy anyone. im very surprised at the power it consumes per per perfomance return.

[E30M3]

BTW, Charlie "i'm an idiot" dedknefuhrefuohreofmerijian was wrong in most of the hate he posted. The product has one flaw and that is power draw but all in all it's high clocked and a real great performer. Eat that C.

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Remember it next time he speaks about nVidia

[Serpentarius]

man, i've just finished reading some reviews. they are pretty depressing ... they mentioned of the term "fastest" when compared with 5870 ... as if 5970 doesnt exist
so, is it the final verdict? any o/c results?

[Jowy Atreides]

Most of the review nerds are missing the mark. Even the few with useful benchmarks don't see the conclusion in front of their faces. Well, it IS hot and loud, they did get that part right.

It will be two months before people really get it. The value of an overclocked 5850 wasn't realized right away either.

Mark my words down. Things will look different when people are paying attention to minimum framerates on their overclocked 470s with giant heatsinks. People will be saying What 5870?

The 5870XT fool

[purefun65]

I guess im just dissapointed. I expected a better card given their engineers!