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R600 Pics

My 8800gtx barely fit into the Alienware Star Wars case I bought... Almost seems like they should go sideways with the coolers, so it parallels the case-side fan and the CPU fan. Make it so you can mount the fan in two different places, so if you run two in crossfire you can put a fan in the A position, and a fan in the B position. Seriously, it wouldn't be all that difficult to come up with something better than what that picture is showing.

What's crossfire going to require on these? 750watt PSU minumum?

Have I ever mentioned how much I love nVidia? By the time these hit the streets, we'll probably be looking at the new pictures of the 8900gtx or 8800gx2 or something uber-cool and nVidia-like.
 
Mark_Warner said:
I think it is time we start holding other component manufacturers to the same efficiency standards as power supply manufacturers. Among other things, many PSUs are now graded on efficiency of power consumption. Why are board and chip makers not measured by the same stick?
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Unfortunately I think this would stifle innovation as they would spend to much time trying to make it use less power and less time on new ideas.
 
trxjw said:
You've got that backwards. The 360 uses a scaled down version of the R600 and the PS3 uses a G70/G80 variation called the RSX.
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rsx is a variation of g70, NOT g80. And IIRC I remember seeing that the 360 consumes close to 200 watts, not sure about the ps3.
 
The Gonz said:
The way food products list nutrition information it would be nice to look on the side of a box and know how much power this card uses, what amperage it requires, how efficient it is, etc etc etc.
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..............nVidia 8800GTX
Serving size 75g, servings per box 400

.............Calories 1190

etc.
 
why the hell cant they just make a video card that sits outside the PC? like a portable HD??

kevineugenius said:
My 8800gtx barely fit into the Alienware Star Wars case I bought... Almost seems like they should go sideways with the coolers, so it parallels the case-side fan and the CPU fan. Make it so you can mount the fan in two different places, so if you run two in crossfire you can put a fan in the A position, and a fan in the B position. Seriously, it wouldn't be all that difficult to come up with something better than what that picture is showing.

What's crossfire going to require on these? 750watt PSU minumum?

Have I ever mentioned how much I love nVidia? By the time these hit the streets, we'll probably be looking at the new pictures of the 8900gtx or 8800gx2 or something uber-cool and nVidia-like.
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good god that thing is a beast...

like someone mentioned earlier...let's see some #'s
 
Do they call it R600 because it is 600 pounds?

I say screw this and get an Nvidia card, it won't break off your pci express slot when you have it in there...

I love Ati better then Nvidia sadly, but jeez, I don't need to buy a case so big it takes up my whole house...
 
kevineugenius said:
Have I ever mentioned how much I love nVidia? By the time these hit the streets, we'll probably be looking at the new pictures of the 8900gtx or 8800gx2 or something uber-cool and nVidia-like.
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I hope so, I want to use my eVGA step-up on them from my recently-bought eVGA 8800GTS :D!
 
for all the people wondering about the Length of the oem card and the setup of the heatsink, the little plastic thing at the end id used to support Vcards in alot of OEM pcs, dell for example shipped their 7800GTX cards with one of those, which made their card alot longer, the RETAIL card which will probably be going to consumers, shouldn't look like that.

link to 7800GTX 256M from Dell
 
Looking at pics of the R600, and reading about the x2300, I wish Amd never bought Ati :eek:

Right, it could be oem, and it could not, but still...

Plus, needing so much power... bleh. I'm wondering if Amd is making Ati focus more on making their cpus better instead of the gpus...

My x1900xt was great... I used to be a big ati/amd fan... then I became intel/ati for awhile... Now it's Inte/Nvidia. Maybe R600 will draw me back, but the power supply issues and this is not promising.
 
I thing that that "600" in the R600 is the total wattage consumption when in X-fire. Divide that by 2... approx. 300 watts per card.. sounds about right.

Not sure that that means for the 8800 though.. hmmm have to think of some way for this flawed reasoning to make its way to nVidia...

PS.. when did ATI steal the FX's fan...... ::evil grin::
 
Xfire would bring your house down.

Bad idea it would be to use xfire :-X

And R600 is it's codename. The R500 was the last Radeon (R580?) made. This is the Radeon600.
 
wow, its a good thing im a nvidiot and refuse to under any circumstance but ATI

is that a BTW 8 pin mobo plug on there? WTF? they expect PSUs to start comming with 2 now? (letalone 1)
 
Even so, with the thing that Friggin' FAT as an oem, doesn't really give you much hope for a smaller version for normal use.

It may be smaller, but it'll still be 2-4 inches bigger then 8800 gtx. Mark my words.
 
HyperTension said:
Not sure that that means for the 8800 though.. hmmm have to think of some way for this flawed reasoning to make its way to nVidia...
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Well obviously the 8800 is the total power consumption for the 44-GPU SLI feature they plan for SLI 4.0. Apparently, you need permission from your adjacent neighbors as you will need to draw power from their circuits.
 
How fat was the 8800 oem?

I don't imagine it was this fat at all.

With the thing this fat, they'll either hafta make it super huge, take up 1 pci express slot and 2 pci slots, or it'll be 2-4 inches longer...

With this in mind, manus better start making more pci slots. I'm betting this may become more common, video cards taking up tons of pci slots.....
 
Looks like only BTX users are going to get to enjoy this one :(

Or you folks with the Lian Li that can turn your mobos upside down.
 
ATI might as well make the fan suck in air through the front of the case and blow it out of the back at that length...

I really hope it's fake, or it'll be the 8600 Ultra as my DX10 card.
 
As much as I love AMD processors, I wouldn't get a Quad FX because of power drain and heat. I wouldn't get that because A) my case wouldn't fit it even with dremeling and B) the power requirements look to be absurd.

Imagine sticking one of those in a Quad FX box? You'd need two kilowatt power supplies.

Even if that's the OEM model, it's not practical.

The line has to be drawn somewhere. That crosses mine. People made fun of the FX5800 Ultra for having the same type of problems, and with good reason.

How OEM's will fit that in the standard crapola case I just don't see.

It *is* probably fast as hell though.
 
Glad I use a full tower case. I could really care less about power consumption as long as it performs. It's like bitching that a 427 big block only gets 13 mpg. :cool:
 
I(illa Bee said:
wow, its a good thing im a nvidiot and refuse to under any circumstance but ATI

is that a BTW 8 pin mobo plug on there? WTF? they expect PSUs to start comming with 2 now? (letalone 1)
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Nope, new PCIe connector looks like that. I'm betting it'll be your choice:
a) New PSU, use an 8-pin.
b) Older PSU, use 2 6-pins.
Thank goodness for that, there's no way in hell I'm replacing my Antec Neo's just yet! :mad:
 
I'm no fanb0i. All I have to say is that if it draws twice the power of an 8800GTX, it better have twice the performance.
 
the card people get for the home machines is slated to be 9.5" long thats 1" shorter then an 8800gtx, why are people being so anal? :p that card is meant to be long to fit into the brackets made into OEM pcs. oem pcs are shipped as a whole piece for one, where as retail cards have the protection of a box and no stress of its weight on its slot.
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
the card in its full length is rumoured to be @ 12.5" which puts it at .5" longer then a GTX? also what are the power requirements for the GTX, orignally the rumour for that was 300w wasnt it?
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No. The 300 W rumor was always part of R600 news, not G80.

Also. The GTX is about 10.5''. That puts this rumored R600 OEM version 2'' longer than the GTX.
 
InorganicMatter said:
I'm no fanb0i. All I have to say is that if it draws twice the power of an 8800GTX, it better have twice the performance.
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That's exactly my concern. With 240-270 W of power draw, it better wipe the floor with NVIDIA's 8800 GTX...
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
the card people get for the home machines is slated to be 9.5" long thats 1" shorter then an 8800gtx, why are people being so anal? :p that card is meant to be long to fit into the brackets made into OEM pcs. oem pcs are shipped as a whole piece for one, where as retail cards have the protection of a box and no stress of its weight on its slot.
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If that's true, then R600 is still in the running (for me), but I am concerned about power requirements. If it's ~200 W, then I am not opposed to it, but any more than that, and it's just too much.

Could someone calculate out how much you'd need on your 12V rails for ~200W and for ~240W? Power supplies ratings vary so much. Oh, and how much does a GTX take? How much does it draw from the 12V rail?
 
It says it's OEM. It reminds me of this OEM Dell 7800GTX.

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I've got 47 days left on my EVGA step-up, I hope they release the rehash soon.
 
i kinda like the idea of a full length card, most cards are drooping anyway with the massive ass coolers we put on them. ATX is suosed to support full length anyway, seems most case vendors forgot that. I've got some old steel cases that would rock a pair of these... hell it may be time to put that AS400 case to good use... if i could get a couple of guys to help me bring it inside.
 
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