RSX in the flesh (picture of...)

[ROG27]

And introducing RSX, our favorite GPU buddy:

 

[BlueTsunami]

Is this real?!

!!

 

[scificube]

Source? Info?

Begging.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Every single Thread in B3D that has something as big as this should have some sort of source occompanied with it. I mean..COME ON!

Wait...I think I remember seeing this picture a while back...hmmmm...maybe my memory is wrong..or it was something else..

 

[scificube]

Ok...you're not funny dude.

Source?

Please don't be screwing with us....

 

[ROG27]

http://home.btconnect.com/hgi/ps3/ps3-rsxchips.jpg

 

[typoEDR]

That was posted months ago in this forum, and was proven fake.

 

[ROG27]

we need someone technical to evaluate the pinnage on the underside and let us know if it's legit or not.

 

[BlueTsunami]

That was posted months ago in this forum, and was proven fake.

Your right, I remember this picture from a while back. Its fake.

 

[ROG27]

That was posted months ago in this forum, and was proven fake.

can I see where it was proven fake and by who?

 

[typoEDR]

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21025&highlight=picture+RSX

Here's the thread.

 

[scificube]

Awwwwww....

that suxxors.

 

[typoEDR]

That thread I posted was locked because it was mentioned in another thread. I'm trying to find that thread right now.

 

[ROG27]

I was gonna say...that thread never proves it being fake.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

I don't think it would be physically possible to have a working, production graphics chip this past June....

 

[ROG27]

I think it may be a dummy chip, used as a placeholder on the ps3 motherboard

 

[Guden Oden]

I was gonna say...that thread never proves it being fake.

Now you're entering the realm of wishful thinking. The chip wasn't completed when the pic you have now reposted first appeared on the web.

Besides, like I mentioned in at least one of the threads mentioning this chip, it's not the same chip shown on either side. The left pic shows the substrate having a rounded corner. There is no rounded corner visible on the flipside pic, so obviously something is fishy right there. I also sort of doubt the pin layout arrangement conforms with the demands of the serial I/O link to Cell. I'd expect something a bit more uniform and regular on at least one side of the chip.

And if nothing else, Occam's razor applies as usual of course, and the probability points towards this being fake.

 

[Edge]

The left pic shows the substrate having a rounded corner. There is no rounded corner visible on the flipside pic, so obviously something is fishy right there.

Your talking about two different parts of the package. The top and bottom are different. The top looks like a metal layer, to help it attach to heat sinks, while the bottom is a circuit board.

 

[Carl B]

Well regardless, it can't be real. This picture is old old old, and it comes from a time when we *know* RSX was pre-tape-out.

 

[Titanio]

The only way it could be "real" is if the G70s etc. that went into PS3 kits before the "real" RSX arrived were manufactured especially for the purpose, and had RSX printed on them symbolically. I think it unlikely though.