The LAST R600 Rumours & Speculation Thread

How many of these average joe's are going to be buying a £400 graphics card? When it comes to enthusiast parts it is more to do with performance, as most of these people are technical and know that more memory doesnt necessarily equal more speed.

As for my case, from the bracket to the end of the hard drive enclosure in the front, which has a big thick fan on it as well I get around 14 inches, probably be 16 inches with just a plain hard drive instead on an enclosure. Besides, anyone buying this card who has a small cheap case deserves whats coming to them

 

very true!

 

What about the title of this very thread? Why would you be so sure that it will be the last?

 

CMStackers for everyone! I use mine as a footstool.

 

At this rate, all the enthusiasts will have the thermaltake Mozart as the case size base line..

 

"That" average Joe isn't exactly the sort that would spend =/>$600 on a GPU.

I won't say that I disagree but for those a wee bit better informed, R600 better have more intruiging advantages overall than either just a bigger framebuffer/more bandwidth or just 10% more performance.

 

Mine would. Remember I've broken all that can be broken already in there ROFL Jokes aside that Thermaltake thingy has those special plastic clips instead of screws for add in cards. Those just weren't designed for dual slot GPUs; you break half of it out and voila it fits. I don't know how much space I've left between the GTX PCB and the first HDD, but it's most certainly more than an inch.

 

In mine crystal bowl I see that two months from now you'll open "official R600 thread"

 

Any decent fortune teller has usually a crystal ball instead of a bowl. In any case if there's any candy in the latter it's of course the preferable variation

 

That's exactly one week before "snowbit in hangover"

 

Im having the same feeling. time to load up on some amd stock.

 

lol. I wish I could do that. Mach 1 on the bottom and modded exos on top makes it about 3 feet tall. Little too tall for me to comfortably do (I have short legs)

 

My pal emailed Theo about that memory and this is what he got:

So its 16 chips on both sides of the board. (well at least according to Theo the GB)

 

8 memory chips on each side would make for 1GB in total. They're 64MB chips, not 32MB.

Jawed

 

That makes more sense.

So the R600 cooling will have a backplate and a dual slot HSF?

 

That would certainly make more sence, but Gigabutt said it's 16 on both sides. Allthough he propably haven't even seen the bloody card so..

 

I don't understand how you can conclude that from what I said.

I'm not sure what the backplate is meant to be for, for example.

Jawed

 

Didnt come to a conclusion from what you said.

To "cool" the ram on the otherside of the PCB unless it doesnt need to. Like the 7800GTX for example.

edit - Not quite sure about the thermal output of GDDR4 memory chips compared to GDDR3.