Geforce 8 Series

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Today on November 8th, the new GeForce 8 sweries fom nVidia was launched. Currently I looked in most online retailers such as newegg.com and they have them on sale for a very very high price

Newegg - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GPUs, Reality Re-difined

Heres some stuff to know about the card:

* There are two cards available: the flagship GeForce 8800GTX and the less powerful GeForce 8800GTS
* Both cards launched on the 8th of November, 2006.
* The GeForce 8800GTX measures just under eleven inches (~28cm) in length. The GeForce 8800GTS measures nine inches (~23cm) in length. Both cards have a dual-slot cooling solution.
* Both cards are HDCP compliant, support dual-link DVI, VIVO and HDTV outs.
* The GeForce 8 Series supports single-GPU x16 AA as well as 128-bit HDR.
* The GeForce 8 Series features a new Quantum Physics Engine[1]
* The 8800GTX was called back on the 6 November 2006, only 2 days before the launch date due to a manufacturing defect. It is possibly due to a resistor controlling 2D/3D switching leading to 3D corruption. So far there is no affect on the launch date of the 8800GTX. The 8800GTS has been unaffected with this defect.
* The 8800 series carry 681 million transistors, up from 278 million in the 7900 series.

[xghozt]

OMG, I want that. Are there any games that relly "need" it though?

[Joshy]

Shit, thats nice.

[trayne]

not worth the money. they copied half the build from ati to fix the heat issue but it doesnt. a dude down the street ordered one and sent it back in less than a day complaining it kept overheating his system. the shaders are backwards in it as well. he brought it over to see if it can be fixed. i'd wait about 2 months for the next version to come out and when direct x supports it.

[Esuna]

Seems good and all but I don't need it, at the moment at least.

[wm_hunter]

not worth the money. they copied half the build from ati to fix the heat issue but it doesnt. a dude down the street ordered one and sent it back in less than a day complaining it kept overheating his system. the shaders are backwards in it as well. he brought it over to see if it can be fixed. i'd wait about 2 months for the next version to come out and when direct x supports it.

I heard rumors of the ATI ripoff. Sad thing if they did not even get it right laugh:

[trayne]

no kidding. i mean they used the same pipelines. tried to copy the fans frequency but didnt bother changing the barring system or its clocks. ati uses twin interval clock settings while geforce still uses single settings for its mhz and ghz. geforce isnt the only company ripping ppl off. microsoft got busted for attempting to use macintosh settings. sad part is that macintosh has been using microsoft settings since year 4. lol

[Loits]

Ofc games would need it, ever heard of Vista and dx10 games?

[Nex]

lol im pretty sure ill be getin a pair of those beats soon, my dad will buy a pair ofrm e and himself then he will buy me a new case he always does that

[trayne]

only reason they are putting them out so quickly and made poorly is cause of vistas high requirements and they were forced to release it even while its in its testing stages. they will eventually catch up hopefully. but if they were smarter, they would of added the new trithread system to it with a dually 144mm open core fan with T-grids and possible an extra 3-pin socket with open frame to allow the option of adding another fan.

explanation of new fan system:
the tri-thread system was used in HT processors but the threads are in a triangle shape that lets air inbetween the pipelines, resulting in a cooler wiring/hardware system. it was created in late 2004 but its information wasnt released in commercials for private use. each pipeline that is setup as a tri-thread puts out about 40x the normal resistance plus is HIGHLY overclockable. the only company that used it was compaq for their windows longhorn networks but only sold about 10K computers with it. Their output for standard processors were 4x the normal speed including more intricate clock decibles.
as for the dually 144mm fans. they were 144mm fans with open cores and lines that had 2 layers of bearings which ran in a double speed so 1-144mm fan can work like a 200+mm fan and use half the power of a 144mm fan which keeps the hardware cooled down and saves on power an open core with t-grids basically allows the user to remove the fan if he or she desires to change or upgrade or even clean. its heatsink is ported and thinner so it does not heat as much.

if i had the chance. i'd add ports to heatsinks on upgradeable hardware such as video cards to the newer gpu systems when there is a fan involved so they stay cooler and add support pipelines but they dont want to now a days cause they want to save 12 cents per component.

[Dan]

only reason they are putting them out so quickly and made poorly is cause of vistas high requirements and they were forced to release it even while its in its testing stages. they will eventually catch up hopefully. but if they were smarter, they would of added the new trithread system to it with a dually 144mm open core fan with T-grids and possible an extra 3-pin socket with open frame to allow the option of adding another fan.

explanation of new fan system:
the tri-thread system was used in HT processors but the threads are in a triangle shape that lets air inbetween the pipelines, resulting in a cooler wiring/hardware system. it was created in late 2004 but its information wasnt released in commercials for private use. each pipeline that is setup as a tri-thread puts out about 40x the normal resistance plus is HIGHLY overclockable. the only company that used it was compaq for their windows longhorn networks but only sold about 10K computers with it. Their output for standard processors were 4x the normal speed including more intricate clock decibles.
as for the dually 144mm fans. they were 144mm fans with open cores and lines that had 2 layers of bearings which ran in a double speed so 1-144mm fan can work like a 200+mm fan and use half the power of a 144mm fan which keeps the hardware cooled down and saves on power an open core with t-grids basically allows the user to remove the fan if he or she desires to change or upgrade or even clean. its heatsink is ported and thinner so it does not heat as much.

if i had the chance. i'd add ports to heatsinks on upgradeable hardware such as video cards to the newer gpu systems when there is a fan involved so they stay cooler and add support pipelines but they dont want to now a days cause they want to save 12 cents per component.

^what he said

also it pisses me off they release this when my 7950 GTX drivers are still beta, and the SLI drivers alpha

[trayne]

i know rofl. I was pissed to but now i'm excited. Theres rumors ati might buy nvidia since the little quarrel. plus ATI is releasing a quadcore dual gpu videocard with a quadcore motherboard that will sync with core2 duo processors or the core2 xeon processor.

let ya know. core2 xeon, WAY better. its not those 2.0 things its around 3.8 starting and clocks close to 6 with overclocking memory. but their fans still suck lol. so i hooked a harddrive fan to it. i just snipped the frame in half and put small hinges so it looks like a little house lol but it keeps it cool.

[Dan]

wait wait wait... did u just say it starts out at 3.8 ghz NON OVERCLOCKED? holy ****in shit

[trayne]

yep. the xeon is for corporate use. you know. usually on servers. they plan on releasing it for standard pc in mid 2007 according to the chatter. but they want to lower its speed so vista can adjust to it. tho i think vista should be trashed. they should finish the work on the programs they didnt finish. though with them, that could take awhile....anyways. its that high for the server use. If i remember right, icq uses it.theres a guy in waterville that has a server that runs on it and it looks sweet. i just kinda wish he'd let me keep it instead of asking me to add new fans for it. though i must admit. that bigbox server he has has alot of potential. it had space to put an arched fan. plus the thing has a bunch of slots.....now i'm wondering what he uses it for lmao.



*update*
geforce fixed their gapped video problems and will be releasing a secondary 8 series. they realized when it heats it stops and they added more venting to the heating areas but i'd still give it space for air circulation. They arent 100% sure if it is suitable for heavy use around a closed area.