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Old 06-Sep-2005, 05:37   #976
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How do you make a ROP orthogonal to the framebuffer in the first place
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How do you make a ROP orthogonal to the framebuffer in the first place
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Old 06-Sep-2005, 11:59   #979
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Old 06-Sep-2005, 12:08   #980
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"ATi Radeon X1800"...
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Someone fetch a bag. I think that particular cat just made a run for it
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The letters on the chip look weird, like they have the wrong perspective.
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The letters on the chip look weird, like they have the wrong perspective.
Probably ati's new angle dependant AF routine
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Old 06-Sep-2005, 12:48   #984
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The letters on the chip look weird, like they have the wrong perspective.

The resistor pattern looks unique to me so I would say it was genuine ( although it is from memory I do not recall ever seeing an ATi chip package having so many present ).

Results soon to follow I guess, the waiting might soon be over.
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The resistor pattern looks unique to me so I would say it was genuine ( although it is from memory I do not recall ever seeing an ATi chip package having so many present ).

Results soon to follow I guess, the waiting might soon be over.
Notice that, down-right, you can see the upper half of a motherboard mounting hole (at least that's what I think it is)... it could be a chipset chip after all.
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Old 06-Sep-2005, 12:54   #986
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Maybe it is XI800

Roman numerals aren't that familiar on that side of the earth...

Edit: I counted 3 mounting holes. they could be for THE dual slot cooling device.

Edit 2: on the lower right corner it can be seen a 45 angle mounted chip.
it can't be found that easy on a motherboard. it could be a memory chip
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I don't recall seeing that many resistors on ANY chip before, what is up with that?!?!
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I don't recall seeing that many resistors on ANY chip before, what is up with that?!?!
That means nothing in itself IMHO. Also, it could be capacitors as well, they both look pretty much the same. I could imagine those capacitors are needed to reduce interferances introduced through high clock speed?

But I think the photo could as well be genuine, with R520 approaching the availability and most AIB partners sitting in China/Taiwan where HKEPC guys are.

All just stupid speculations of mine, though...
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I don't recall seeing that many resistors on ANY chip before, what is up with that?!?!
That's fake, and a very poorly done one at that. It literally looks like someone drew the "black" with a distorted Photoshop layer (never even bothered to use a shape layer which would have gotten rid of the ugly jaggies distorting a regular layer shows), then pasted the ATI logo and text on it (looks like they actually tried to find a decent replica of the etched font but failed there too). Finally they tried to adjust the perspective properly but failed miserably. Really badly done.
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Yeah, after another couple cups of coffee the black is obvious as hell...thanks.
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What is the black thing in the bottom right hand corner? Whether it is fake or not, it kinda looks like a memory chip.
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"..." for that it is really off base and fake?
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Prolly because it's a fake, Dig
And yet the resistor pattern is a dead-ringer for the other one we saw, and it isn't the same exact one, as this one is more scratched up.
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"ATI" and "R520" might be fake, but the chip looks very real. And it's none I've seen yet.
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1.26ns should be interesting (and ridiculously expensive) ~ 1600Mhz and > 50GB/s bandwidth.

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With large quantities of GDDR3 700MHz memory being ordered for XBOX 360, the availability of 800MHz 512Mb speed/density memory will probably increase, and both go down in price in fairly short order.
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With large quantities of GDDR3 700MHz memory being ordered for XBOX 360, the availability of 800MHz 512Mb speed/density memory will probably increase, and both go down in price in fairly short order.
That's the type of ram I'd rather speculate for R580 though
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No one contests the 32 pipe? I thought everybody was inclined to 16 pipes.... Well, if true, 32 pipes at 600+Mhz what can I say? New king of the hill? But, will we see the new king anytime soon and in quantities?
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No one contests the 32 pipe? I thought everybody was inclined to 16 pipes.... Well, if true, 32 pipes at 600+Mhz what can I say? New king of the hill? But, will we see the new king anytime soon and in quantities?
If there are only 10 cards with 32 pipes running, then it isn't a true sku. And I hope it isn't named the X1800. Ugh.
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