Meh, driver-shmiver. Neither one of them write drivers worth a shit until the cards are old news. Bench your old 8 and 9 series nV rigs and you'll see what I mean. :thumbdown:

shit drivers are one thing, hardware failure is another. 10.2 Cat release notes don't mention...or fix the GSOD issue. Pretty safe to say it's much more complicated than Power Play.

Wow I had no idea it was so wide spread. I though the only catostophic failures were from benchers. I will have to read up a bit so I know the skinny on this shit ......

At any rate lets hope nV delivers big and we all can put the 5 series behind us.

One thing for sure if the 5 series turns out to be a finacial fail for AMD it could mean trouble for the underdog chip maker.

WTF on these prices. I can only hope these are jacked up.

http://www.sabrepc.com/c-27-desktop-...nids=30&list=0

Attachment 1571

Ouch ...............

Yeah I would hope so.... They can kiss my ass if they think I'm paying that much for a gpu... especially one that may or may not be partially faulty or disabled in some way. :thumbdown:

I smell Ultra prices :blink:

Did you read the reviews on that site Nip? their funny as hell.

http://www.sabrepc.com/p-174-xfx-gef...16-retail.aspx

Funny how they are preselling now, and supposedly 480 is not going to be available till MAy now?

470 should be available in March in limited quantities and expectations are it is geared at the 5850?

Well if they ar going after the 4850 first, they are way off the price point

http://i.tpucdn.com/images/news/nvidia.gif
GeForce GTX 480 PCB and Cooling Assembly Pictured
Sources wanting anonymity sent these pictures of PCB and cooling assembly to sections of the media. The PCB is that of the GeForcehttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif GTX 480, and is NVIDIA's reference design. It gives away a fair amount of information about the card that has created quite some hype over the months, which is slated for release on March 26. To begin with, the GF100 GPU on which GTX 480 is based, uses essentially the same type of package as the GT200 and G80. To help cool the large die (with a 3 billion-strong transistor count), an integrated heatspreader (IHS) is used. However, unlike with the G80 and GT200 (past two generations of extreme performance GPUs from NVIDIAhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif), the display logic is integrated into the GPU package, instead of being spun off into NVIO processors.

With 12 memory chipshttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif on board, the GPU connects to them over a 384-bit wide memory interface. The reference design board is expected to have 1536 MB (1.5 GB) of memory on it. There's also an unusual amount of simplicity to the board design and choice of components. The GPU is powered by a 6-phase vGPU circuit using more standard DPAK MOSFETs. There is a 2-phase vMem circuit. With wide open spaces in the PCB, NVIDIA actually made two cutouts to help the blower's air intake.



Power is drawn from an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector. Fan connects over a standard 4-pin PWM controlled line, while the white 2-pin connector in the picture powers an illuminated GeForce logo on the top of the card (next to the power inputs). Connectivity includes two DVI-D, and a mini HDMI connector. The PCB itself seems to be about as long as reference GeForce GTX 280 boards. The cooling assembly doesn't show off lavish use of copper, but looks equally complex as older cooling assemblies by the company for such GPUs.


Source: Tweakers.net