The LAST R600 Rumours & Speculation Thread

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  1. Monty

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    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 :twisted:
     
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    Well, it's still "cards at a trade show behind closed doors", and no evidence of imminent launch. So it's a bit premature to get too wound up about it. Could be early ES samples or what have you. Doesn't necessarily mean the retail cards will be that size. The 7900GX2 vs 7950GX2 is an example of how that can change between early/OEM and retail.
     
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    very true!
     
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    What about the title of this very thread? Why would you be so sure that it will be the last? :grin:
     
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    Because I'm a mod and I'm stubborn. I can keep this open for 5,000 pages if necessary. :lol: (No, I'm not expecting that to be necessary. Besides, I could always make a "the Last LAST" thread. ;)).
     
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    CMStackers for everyone! I use mine as a footstool.
     
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    :lol:

    At this rate, all the enthusiasts will have the thermaltake Mozart as the case size base line..
     
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    "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.
     
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    Mine would. Remember I've broken all that can be broken already in there ROFL :D 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.
     
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    In mine crystal bowl I see that two months from now you'll open "official R600 thread" ;)
     
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    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 ;)
     
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    That's exactly one week before "snowbit in hangover"
     
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    Im having the same feeling. :) time to load up on some amd stock.
     
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    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)
     
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    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):smile:
     
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    8 memory chips on each side would make for 1GB in total. They're 64MB chips, not 32MB.

    Jawed
     
  17. Twinkie

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    That makes more sense.

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