Vlad_13
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DO NOT BUY THIS PIECE OF CRAP!!!
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and the card should hit retail shelves in Europe in about a month's time.
I hate reference design video cards that differ only in cooler sticker between brands. When a new card hits, I always wait a month or two until companies like GigaByte and others release "cool" and more refined versions of the same card. They usally negate the need for purchasing a 3rd-party cooler since they come stock with one and I like that they ditch the green PCB's. So frickin dull...
I hate buyers remorse, and seeing new updated revisions of video cards hit left and right, right after you had already purchased the john doe version is painful.
The reason Nvidia's reference design uses the cover is so that the air is vented out of the case at the back of the GPU card. This helps OEM manufacturers meet their thermal budgets, etc. This card design you see is just going to blow hot air away from the GPU but into the case, which is what older GPU designs used to do. If you have good cooling in your case, this may not be a problem for you.
EVGA i think only sticks to referance nVidia design.
How does this card output HDMI with audio to your TV when it has two DVI outputs?
Looks more like a 6600GT than anything.
Won't the RAM on that get awfully toasty?
what the F is wrong with resellers that stick a Zalman fan on their GPUs that they don't cover the RAM chips and MOSFETs with a heatsink?? They're idiots!! I wouldn't touch that model with a ten foot pole. It's not going to OC much if at all and the RAM and MOSFETs are going to be boiling hot. What crap.
You couldn't be any more uninformed if you actually tried.
1. The Qimonda/Samsung BGA DDR3 modules used on these cards run the coolest of any modules yet and require no heatsink to run at their rated speeds and beyond. This is actually true for most BGA memory.
2. The power regulation circuitry on this Gigabyte card has been redesigned with a cooler running and more stable triple-phase solution. That's one of the whole points of this card.
On the 8800GT the ram is loop warm
I hate reference design video cards that differ only in cooler sticker between brands. When a new card hits, I always wait a month or two until companies like GigaByte and others release "cool" and more refined versions of the same card. They usally negate the need for purchasing a 3rd-party cooler since they come stock with one and I like that they ditch the green PCB's. So frickin dull...
I hate buyers remorse, and seeing new updated revisions of video cards hit left and right, right after you had already purchased the john doe version is painful.
This is not new news. If you had researched before you purchased your "John Doe" version, you would have found sites with leaked pics of this Gigabyte card before the regular 8800GT was actually launched.
I have a VF900 around here somewhere....will it fit the reference design 8800GT?I would love to slap the Vf900 i have presently on this card when it comes out. The only thing keeping me from buying this card is how it performs to the OC'd version of the 8800 GT's (SSC editon, super duper nice edition w/e) Plus I can also put those RAM sinks to keep the modules cool if needed, that way it cud be the coolest air cooled 8800Gt around.
The 8800GT's reference cooler does not vent the hot air out of the back of the card. It exausts the air right back into the case.
You may be thinking of the GTX and GTS dual-slot coolers which DO exhaust hot air outside of the case.
DVI and HDMI are essentially the same in their wiring and electrial designs, so the physical connector just needs a DVI-to-HDMI adaptor.
More detail here.
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4333&Itemid=1
Might have the 3rd V-phase,making for better more stable ocs as well.
Can the X-FX rep please chime in to tell us if it does have the 3rd vphase on board ??
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4333&Itemid=1
Might have the 3rd V-phase,making for better more stable ocs as well.
Can the X-FX rep please chime in to tell us if it does have the 3rd vphase on board ??