Huddy says "R600"

200W and 3 slots sounds like a pile of crap. If it turns out being true, then they're really nuts.

 

LoL and thats the value line chip, they must have a microwave emitter for the high end

 

Hmm, wonder if it could be like the Sapphire Toxic watercooled card.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1974912,00.asp

Jawed

 

That is just a two-slot design, and it is a high-end product.

Could they have made a mistake, naming the high-end R600 as the "RV600" ?

 

RV560 + RV570 -> RV600?

It's not that hard to do if you don't pay attention, I suppose.

Also, why not take a water cooler like the Toxic, but add a second waterblock so that it fits on a dual-GPU, dual-card configuration? Or the equivalent of the Nvidia dual-GPU cards.

Of course, still sounds like a nice steaming pile in the first place...

 

Three slots is not going to happen, for one thing 3 slots wouldn't allow Crossfire on most of the motherboards out there...

 

This has to be nonsense. Surely?! If not, it'll be one of the biggest ROFLs since NV30 cooling "solution" and Voodoo power brick.

 

That same user at Hard and at Tech Rept, is so far in the green fanboi camp anything he says about the red team is questionable at best. When he posted his "sorces" for this info, it turn out to be some hardware reviewers guess at what he thought might happen...

 

It says R600 now
I guess they read the boards

 

Assuming R600 isn't due for another 4-6 months and that reported sighting is true, I'm not sure we should worry about how it's configured now. Could it be an engineering sample Frankenstein? Maybe some of us with industry contacts could clue us in on what PCBs and with what coolers early samples are fitted?

200W is pretty frightening, though. That sucker better disable a lot of quads when "idle."

 

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34446
250W ?! Someone somewhere is crazy

 

My money's on Fuad.

 

Cant see the major harm if its true. What would worry me are the real consumer chips, mid/low end, having issues as well because those are the people that hate to upgrade. And a PSU replacement to an OEM purchaser is major. Most enthusiasts should have a 500W+ PSU in their computer already which wont have an issue with that kind of load at all. I have a 680W thats been neglected .

Its been so long i cant remember, what was the jump in consumption on the first DX9 boards? I know the 9800 Pro was about 50Watts, how much were DX8 boards previously?


They wouldnt try pushing 1Gig GDDR4 boards yet i wouldnt think....but
Also wonder what type of GDDR4 they'll be using. Samsung is now listing 1400MHz (2800MHz effective) GDDR4 on their product site so theres a possible cause.

I refuse to believe, if i am to take that number as true, that its all from the core and the addition of DX10. That would be grossly overbalanced.

 

I wish it was 500 watts for all I care. Just better be about three times as fast as the next guy.

 

instead of a 5-10% spread from the other guys card that launched months before?

 

Exactly.

Maybe it could come with home liquid nitrogen system.

 

250W is an absolute nonsense.

 

Two of these in a Crossfire setup should be interesting...

If this one is true (as well as the other), then G80 will be much less taxating on the power/heat bill than R600.

 

So, how long before we start counting R600 as late?

Jawed