Someone is about to get fired for these pics

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Just came across them on chiphell, now we can tell the true size of GF100 die.

From what I can tell from the forum comments:
-Someone working at the Chinese card vendor www.pcasl.com took those pics and was complaining how their sample kept burning up and was being costly as the chip cost $100 each.
-Guy takes pic and post to ngacn.cc
-The original thread was taken down and the next day he post another thread saying he got called into boss' office... http://bbs.ngacn.cc/read.php?tid=3186302

Chiphell thread where someone saved the pics before the original thread was deleted
http://bbs.chiphell.com/viewthread.php?tid=75578

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Incoming suicide as it is the general Chinese I quit because I can't deal with it button :rolleyes:
 
those look a little well done. Hope that the cooling devices can handle them.
 
scojer said:
those look a little well done. Hope that the cooling devices can handle them.
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Do you prefer your Fermi as well done or charred in lowest level of Hell?

Mmmm, the smell of burnt computer parts, nothing like that smell can wake you up in the morning.
 
Another Fur Me Thread!!
Hmm dammit nvidia release it already, so that we can all go home to our wives and families :D
 
BlueStorm said:
It's par for the course. They do stress testing and hardcore environmental testing.
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Actually that makes sense, they intentionally put the chips at like 500 degrees and stuff? I forgot, but this kind of testing is done for a lot of products.

As long as that's not from normal use lol.
 
FranklyShankly said:
Actually that makes sense, they intentionally put the chips at like 500 degrees and stuff? I forgot, but this kind of testing is done for a lot of products.

As long as that's not from normal use lol.
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Well, from the tone of the original post it sounds like it was just normal testing and they weren't supposed to burn up...
 
saw those yesterday, they were already posted in the fermi benchmark thread
 
FranklyShankly said:
Actually that makes sense, they intentionally put the chips at like 500 degrees and stuff? I forgot, but this kind of testing is done for a lot of products.

As long as that's not from normal use lol.
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they do that will ALL products. A woman I works withs husband does this for a living. They get all kinds of different products shipped to them and they put them to the extreme for duribility testing. Seems like a really cool job.
 
Curious, are there pics of a chips underside? Looking at those trays, it looks like the chips are modular (Like a CPU), otherwise, they wouldn't bother unsoldering them. How do they connect it to the test machine?
 
The pictures alone don't really show you how large they are. There is nothing in the pictures to compare them to.
 
I take it that these pictures prove that Nidia is going out of business? :rolleyes:
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rofl :p...good luck all those guys who are gonna dump $500-600 into one of those suckers.;)
 
Those pics don't tell you anything. Those are clearly engineering samples that were stress tested, and you could find pics of many previous chips from all companies that look similar.

EDIT: On a second look, those are not engineering samples, but retail samples, but that doesn't change anything.
 
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I like how the forth and fifth picture look as if someone spilled coke on the chips. :p
 
Dan_D said:
The pictures alone don't really show you how large they are. There is nothing in the pictures to compare them to.
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On the first two pictures you can see a white tag, I took these tags to be the stickers for file folders that were cut up. Take the tag width and measure that against the chips width, scale to proper length of a file tag, and you got the chip size?

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or maybe not, I just looked on my desk at a file and those tags are pretty wide. That would leave it at about 2.5 inch chip, thats way too big. Ok forget my post.
 
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Dan_D said:
The pictures alone don't really show you how large they are. There is nothing in the pictures to compare them to.
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Actually we have also have pics of the package in the pcb out in the wild, so we can derive the size of the package from that and by extension the size of the die.
 
I was hoping he'd put his finger or something in the picture as a reference size...
 
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