ASUS 8800GTX/GTS Retail PICS +New info revealed

What about DDr4 memory?

 

DDR4 memory is not going to be used

 

Man ... just when i'm getting a 7950GT .. darn nvidia ... ooopps . ...

 

Actually the cards don't look too bad now. Its a very neat HSF. The most important thing...its expelling hot air from the BACk this time! Took nvidia long enough.

 

Why is DDR4 not being used? What benifits does DDr3 have apart from cost

 

There is a shortage of ddr4 in the market right now.

 

Oh, whats the problem in manufacturing it?

 

Like I said, like 0.8-1 inch bigger than the 6800ultra...

 

after watching the crysis walkthrough trailer on ign.com, i'm definitely getting a dx10 card when i get my laptop next year.

 

Nobody's really sure. Samsung said that not enough was produced for the demand. There are also rumours its very expensive to manufacture

 

Few months ago everyone touted that GDDR 4 memory was cheaper to make than GDD 3 >_>

 

I think it is actually cheap to manufacture. But because yields are so low cost is becoming expensive. If 1 out of 5 are working then you effectively just increased your production cost 5 fold. While it is cheaper to produce per chip. It is more expensive to produce per working chip.

 

the GTX seems good , but i think the GTS will be a winner , doesnt need as much power is smaller , probably cooler aswell , ans the specs are not that much different

 

heck if the benchmarks are good
i'll trade this x1950 for a gts
windows vista's pricing is gonna suck tho

 

Main thing to notice is the fact that the card is CPU limited so much.

If you loo at victors page you notice that after he OC's just a bit to 3.6ghz his kentsfield he gets about 1k more score in 3dmark06.

Very interesting.

 

ill be ok i think , i dnt care if im bottleneccked , its the power of 2 1950xtx so doesnt bother me

 

that's true, even if there is a bottleneck, it's not like you're gonna notice it in gaming. You're probably gonna play Crysis at max settings and at 1280x1024 with really smooth fps anyway

 

Just read that Nvidia is (according to an german site) recommending a 400/450 Watt PSU with 30/26 (GTX/GTS) Amps on the 12 volt rail for the cards, but why 2 power connectors? Maybe one for the core and one for the memory or something equal? Or else they're totally wrong.

Anyway even if I had the money/setup for this card, I wouldn't buy it, because it's the first of it's generation and therefor far from perfect.

 

Man, that thing is long.....

 

It seems that at 11 am on november 8th we'll hear official news on the geforce 8.