New R600 info as Jan 18th

Still, it's the Inq. Even if they are half wrong they will still claim to be right.
 
Indeed intresting... Clear branding is welcome to the name hell jungle of current 3D cards..

Now that I have read the thing to the last word, Iam not sure if the naming scheme is any better than the old. We will see :)
 
If true this is not good - at least part of it. I can fit my GTX in just barely. Not sure if I have an extra .5 inches to spare. Sure others will have that problem too with XTX
 
apcor said:
If true this is not good - at least part of it. I can fit my GTX in just barely. Not sure if I have an extra .5 inches to spare. Sure others will have that problem too with XTX
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For a card with over 150 GB/s bandwith I'd rip out of the necessary metal from the case using my bare teeth then trimming down metal (as required) using the exposed bones of my forearm as I use it like a human saw.
 
TWELVE goddamn inches? Wtf is going on here?! Do ATI and NVIDIA not realize that most ppl aren't using the massive towers required to accommodate such a length?
 
LOL! Those full tower case builders are loving this. Longer PSU's & Video Cards are forcing a lot of people to go with the larger cases. Although there are those willing to modify there current cases to get over this problem. I will either get a Silverstone or Lian Li full tower case myself. More room with the options of well placed 120mm fans should lead to cooler cards that are not crammed up in a smaller case

.I am waiting for R600 line to release myself. I have not jumped the gun as of yet with getting a pair of 8800 GTX's. Vista is what I'm waiting for before I decide a majority of my purchases for my new build. it goes a long way to be patient. Unless you have unlimited funding. Then you can by anything new that comes out lol.
 
the single slot cooler is the best info i saw in that article. if it's true. thats awesome.
fuck the length, i want my pci slot back!
 
Right.
Because so many people who are using dell optiplex cases are going to be putting $700 video cards into them.
 
Muhahahaha, I cant wait. Hell make the fucker 15 inches, I want something that most average users cant even put in their systems!
 
He's retarded. The Filet Mignon is the best cut of meat that he listed there, but compared it to the worst of the four cards.
Retard.
 
One of my reasons of not getting an 8800GTX was the length. Albeit that wasn't the sole reason, this is really shattering.

I hope I have enough room in my Antec P180B to fit this thing.....
 
Haste266 said:
the single slot cooler is the best info i saw in that article. if it's true. thats awesome.
fuck the length, i want my pci slot back!
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Single slot cooler only for models NOT XTX. Meaning the 12 inch card will still have a dual slot cooler. At least that's what the article says, but it's The Inq...
Who knows if it's true.
 
winston856 said:
One of my reasons of not getting an 8800GTX was the length. Albeit that wasn't the sole reason, this is really shattering.

I hope I have enough room in my Antec P180B to fit this thing.....
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If you remove the middle drive cage, you can.
 
That's_Corporate said:
For a card with over 150 GB/s bandwith I'd rip out of the necessary metal from the case using my bare teeth then trimming down metal (as required) using the exposed bones of my forearm as I use it like a human saw.
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Not necessary my good man. You know a guy made the 12" measurement, which really means the card is more like 8-9" long. :D
 
They should be named X2800, 2600, 2400 and 2200....instead of this XTX, XT, XL, GT garbage from the past that makes them sound more like a porno than a video card.
 
Huh. Maybe I wont be trading in my 10 year old full tower case for a TJ09 on my next build.
 
ATW said:
They should be named X2800, 2600, 2400 and 2200....instead of this XTX, XT, XL, GT garbage from the past that makes them sound more like a porno than a video card.
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I'm sure they are. Theo was just using an abbreviated form to describe each card. How many times would you want to read X2800 XTX, X2800GT, etc.
 
Haste266 said:
the single slot cooler is the best info i saw in that article. if it's true. thats awesome.
fuck the length, i want my pci slot back!
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I agree with that statement as well. I have a ginormic Thermaltake Armor case that will only
have one hard drive and one opitcal drive installed into it.
 
Looks good. Glad I have a full tower case. Any guesses on the prices points they're trying to hit?

Tbone $650+
Ribeye $500
Sirloin $400
Filet $300 ???
 
12 inches long? Good God. New technology should be getting SMALLER not BIGGER. One day computers will be the same size as they were in the 60's, buahahahahha!
 
If it's cheap enough and fast enough, who cares how big it is? If it offered 8800 levels of performance and was ~$250, I'd buy it if it sounded like a hair dryer and was two feet long. I know how to use a dremel, and I have a good set of earbuds.

We need some competition to bring the prices down. Unfortunately all of these are probably going to be priced more than I want to pay, too.

At this rate, I'll probably still be bitching about prices and still not have upgraded in June. Give the mid-end some DX10 lovin', please, somebody!
 
I am really sold. When AMD took over ATI they fixed all the kinks in my x1900xt in no time.

Can't wait to jump on the r600.
 
I think some of you guys are missing the fact that the cards are all about 9" with the exception of the XTX. There's probably nothing stopping you from grabbing an XT, sticking water on it, and running the clocks through the roof.

And you can't even go out and buy the 12" variety. It'll be sold to OEMs only and they would have designed for it and probably prefer to have the 12" over the 9".

The real question is still what the heck they plan on doing with all that bandwidth. You're looking at a card that's bordering on 2x the bandwidth of a 8800GTX. If they did the same with the processing you'd expect R600 to have twice the performance of a 8800GTX.

Probably why Nvidia placed such a large order for chips. We're gonna see the 8800 GX2/GX4 varieties start showing up as the refresh. Might be a good indicator of just how fast the chips are. Of course that also means an 8800GTX will be a midrange card in a month or two with about half the performance of the high end market.
 
I thought news articals that reference "DAAMIT" were parodies?

The speed downgrade enabled DAAMIT to put a more compact PCB, nine inches in length but still featuring the same amount of GDDR-4 memory.
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This is trash to me.
 
Caffeinated said:
We need some competition to bring the prices down. Unfortunately all of these are probably going to be priced more than I want to pay, too.
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This is what concerns me at this point. It's been rumoured that NVIDIA has been placing orders for TSMC for 80nm G80 chips, so we may be looking at a refresh part on the NVIDIA side before or near the launch of R6xx. If NVIDIA sticks with 768MB of GDDR3 for the "8900 GTX", AIBs may be able to offer this card at around $499 (or perhaps less). ATi's real filet mignon, the XTX, with the rumoured 1GB of GDDR4, a true 512-bit bus and a brand new 720+ million transistor chip, is likely going to hit the $649 mark, with the very real possibility that it may come it at $699 (though I severely doubt this). I don't doubt that the XTX will be the king of the hill (at least most of the time) by some margin, but at what price that is justifiable may be questionable.

This is kind of a worse case scenario pricing structure, but it is realistic. The big question is whether AMD is aggressively looking for a return on the ATi investment. This is going to dictate X2800's pricing structure alongside the high card BOM.

Anarchist4000 said:
And you can't even go out and buy the 12" variety. It'll be sold to OEMs only and they would have designed for it and probably prefer to have the 12" over the 9".
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That's the rumour, anyway (as far as I know). VR-Zone isn't terribly reliable, either.
 
I must say, if they do offer single slot cooling --that isn't god awful or sounds like a 747 landing-- I'll be buying one or two. :)

I hope we see more RD600 offerings as well. I heard rumors that ASUS was going to release a RD600 board at some point.. but thats another forum.
 
trxjw said:
I must say, if they do offer single slot cooling --that isn't god awful or sounds like a 747 landing-- I'll be buying one or two. :)

I hope we see more RD600 offerings as well. I heard rumors that ASUS was going to release a RD600 board at some point.. but thats another forum.
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Kyle called ATI since the DFI board popped on Newegg without any announcement. According to them DFI is the only provider of this chipset as they dont really care much about it. Probably since they dont want to support Intel....
 
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