Gtx 485?

[FoldingFanatic]

KitGuru = Epic fail

Them and semi-accurate ought to merge into one single site, and call it idiots are us.

EG

[BeepBeep2]

KitGuru = Epic fail

Them and semi-accurate ought to merge into one single site, and call it idiots are us.

EG

Nah, charlie's better than this , he actually makes some sort of sense.

[Dumo]

Just for you Dumo:

Are you gonna be the first one to buy?......Like those 480s @ Newegg

[kaktus1907]

http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=3587

[-Boris-]

KitGuru = Epic fail

Them and semi-accurate ought to merge into one single site, and call it idiots are us.

EG

The main difference is that Charlie is actually right more often than not. His view on nVidia tends to make people consider him an untrustworthy fanboy, even if his predictions is right in the end. Just see what he said about GTX 4xx long before anyone else, or GTX 2xx.

[hurleybird]

Even when charlie is wrong there is usually a nugget of truth somewhere in his stories. The issue is that he is heavily biased against Nvidia, and goes to no effort to hide it. In a way, that makes him more unreliable, at least in his commentary, but it also makes him fun to read.

[BobyTT]

Are you gonna be the first one to buy?......Like those 480s @ Newegg

Yes

[FischOderAal]

Even I know more about hardware than the morons running KitGurus. Would someone plz DDOS it and take it down? I can't take their stupidity anymore.

€dith: Reading the comments on KitGuru makes me want to puke and bash my head on a wall till I loose consciousness.

[bfar]

So they printed an image of an old card on the story... doesn't mean the story is wrong or right, it's just a picture of a couple of cards. People are pretty quick to flame the tech tabloids. There are often some grains of truth in their stories, especially as they're not bound by nda nor threat of blacklisting. Ironically it's the so-called credible sites that are under the hypnotic powers of the corporations - they have to operate under strict nda's and align their reviews with carefully prepared 'guides'. Step out of line and the flow of goodies stops. There are virtually no honest tech sites left on the internet these days.

Given the cost of manufacturing fermi, and the power/heat problems it suffers, I'd be pretty suprised to learn that Nvidia wasn't working on a revison tbh.

[Periander6]

http://en.expreview.com/2010/06/15/b...fall/7254.html

the GTX 485 that basing on GF100 Fermi GPU will have 512 CUDA / 64 TMUs/48 ROPs; Core/Shader gets set to720/1440MHz, higher than GTX480

[Andrew LB]

My 286 CPU overclocked more than 20Mhz via the "Turbo" button...back in the day.

Umm.... the 286 CPU had an initial release speed of 6mhz and 8mhz and I believe hit somewhere around 16mhz with further revisions. Plus i don't recall them being able to be overclocked using the turbo button. If i recall correctly, the turbo button didn't become available until the 386, and it definitely didn't increase speed 20mhz.

On the other hand, I did own a i486 DX2-66mhz system which had an amazing 16mb of ram, 28.8k modem, diamond stealth 64 vesa local bus 8mb video card.... and it played Doom 1 like a champ!! I recall the video card having extra sockets that allowed you to upgrade the VRAM to 16mb, which I added after I got my dad to drive me to Fry's electronics.

Man.... things have sure come a long way since 1992. I bought that PC just so I could play Doom. But then got hooked on the Ultima games, more specifically Ultima 7. Probably the best RPG ever made.

[highoctane]

Umm.... the 286 CPU had an initial release speed of 6mhz and 8mhz and I believe hit somewhere around 16mhz with further revisions. Plus i don't recall them being able to be overclocked using the turbo button. If i recall correctly, the turbo button didn't become available until the 386, and it definitely didn't increase speed 20mhz.

My 286 had the turbo/oc button, I think it was like 12mhz with turbo on if I'm remembering correctly. The whole idea of turbo was kind of silly thinking back, who ever ran their computer with it off.

There was turbo with the 286 but I don't think it was 20mhz.

[Olly_K]

my 286 was 12mhz with the turbo button, and about 6-8 without it. A whopping 1mb RAM and 20mb HDD too

[Svnth]

The main difference is that Charlie is actually right more often than not. His view on nVidia tends to make people consider him an untrustworthy fanboy, even if his predictions is right in the end. Just see what he said about GTX 4xx long before anyone else, or GTX 2xx.

lol. You mean how he was dreadfully wrong? I love how people gloss over those "facts" things and find 1 piece of information that someone happened to be correct about, then call them "accurate".

[thijs]

fairly big website here in holland is reporting something like this aswell:

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...XdFhGSanoNDB4g

[-Boris-]

lol. You mean how he was dreadfully wrong? I love how people gloss over those "facts" things and find 1 piece of information that someone happened to be correct about, then call them "accurate".

You are doing exactly this the other way right now. Overall he was right, he predicted lots of heat, low yields, delays and a product that wouldn't live up to nVidias promises. All that was right. He even predicted the week of tape out, and did very good predicting time of release almost a year in advance. And you say he was dreadfully wrong?

It seems to me that you are the one who make a few details to "dreadfully wrong".

This is from July last year, a time when people were still talking about release somewhere around that of Windows 7.
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/07/...300-tapes-out/

And already in May he doubted that it would be possible with a hard launch in Q1 2010.

And we are still waiting for a full fermi launch.


So please, point out what details in his predictions that made everything so wrong that you consider it dreadful.

[Picao84]

http://en.expreview.com/2010/06/15/b...fall/7254.html

Am I the only one thinking this possible move by nVIDIA is silly?

[Sam_oslo]

http://en.expreview.com/2010/06/15/b...fall/7254.html

This is a welcome move, if true. Specially If the price is only $20 more than current GTX480, it will result in a big price drop on GTx480/70.

[saaya]

that doesnt make sense... why are they releasing a 485 for 20$ more???

[Sam_oslo]

that doesnt make sense... why are they releasing a 485 for 20$ more???

Yeah that would crash the price on the whole range. It wouldn't make any scenes to nVidia, ATi or their employees. But it could make the day for frequent consumers of high-end GPU, for sure.

[onethreehill]

GTX 485 PCB?


http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php...haeltlich.html

[stangracin3]

GTX 485 PCB?


http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php...haeltlich.html

with a TDP of only 375 watts, you can use this card to heat your whole house not just 2 rooms like with the GTX 480. the card will feature dual delta fans, that draw 18 watts each. It has a minimum temp of 80C and load during games is somewhere around 120C. Furmark=you done just burnt down the house. SLI needs Qaud 1200W SR-2 power supplies.


i could go on forever.

[570091D]

Am I the only one thinking this possible move by nVIDIA is silly?

why would releasing the card we've been promised since last nov be silly? nvidia NEEDS a card firing on all 512 cylinders! the silly part is the price, unless they plan a price drop for the rest of the GTX range...

[ElSel10]

that doesnt make sense... why are they releasing a 485 for 20$ more???

Probably has something to do with the fact that it's a better card. Just a guess though.

[HelixPC]

Charlie Demerjian must have had something to do with this one............... This is the suit he wears while he thinks of what to write on his site (www.semiaccurate.com)