GTX 280/260 Specs

[ghost_recon88]

i hope the gtx260 will have a single power plug.


i hope.

According to the published pictures, it has an 6-pin plug...and an 8-pin! Thank God Corsair released "Y" cables for their modular PSUs that have both 8-pin and 6-pin plugs on one cable.

 

[Fishman550]

With a Q6600 at stock speeds? Why bother? That thing won't even take advantage of a single card What resolution is your monitor?

no, cos i'm gonna watercool my CPU soon and push it to 3.6-4.0

 

[ScottinIndy]

According to the published pictures, it has an 6-pin plug...and an 8-pin! Thank God Corsair released "Y" cables for their modular PSUs that have both 8-pin and 6-pin plugs on one cable.

They just need to put a dang AC plug on the cards so you can just plug them into a surge protector.

 

[Fishman550]

they should just make it a single pin, its annoying when its dual pin cos (i don't have this problem, as i was asking around before and my PSU can do that for SLI) but a lot of people have a good PSU, but not enough connectors for SLI y'know.

Kinda bad if you wanna SLI, as you gotta buy a new PSU or get the right adapter.

Just my thought

 

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

For once I dont regret the buying of a psu lol. I love mine...plenty of sli connectors lol.

 

[OneArmedScissor]

They just need to put a dang AC plug on the cards so you can just plug them into a surge protector.

that would actually be pretty sweet.

 

[Fishman550]

For once I dont regret the buying of a psu lol. I love mine...plenty of sli connectors lol.

same, more than enough

 

[reclaimer122]

that would actually be pretty sweet.

Ha! Say goodbye to power limitations. The only limit then would be proper cooling! At least until companies like Dell and HP adopt WC as standard for GPUs.

 

[ghost_recon88]

Ha! Say goodbye to power limitations. The only limit then would be proper cooling! At least until companies like Dell and HP adopt WC as standard for GPUs.

But if its plugged directly into the wall, won't it make your lights dim?

 

[ratbuddy]

They just need to put a dang AC plug on the cards so you can just plug them into a surge protector.

Sounds familiar.. Hmm..

Oh yeah:

 

[Evilsizer]

DUDE!!! the voodoo 5 60000, 4 graphics chips with 32mb's per chip. that would have been a smokin card in it's day, MSRP was $600. if you luck into finding/getting a working prototype it would cost you about $1000. worth that much to colloctors...

 

[ratbuddy]

DUDE!!! the voodoo 5 60000, 4 graphics chips with 32mb's per chip. that would have been a smokin card in it's day, MSRP was $600. if you luck into finding/getting a working prototype it would cost you about $1000. worth that much to colloctors...

Those external 12v power bricks only supply something like 50 watts I guess PSUs back then weren't quite as powerful as today's

 

[Evilsizer]

Those external 12v power bricks only supply something like 50 watts I guess PSUs back then weren't quite as powerful as today's

P3 PSU's were 5v amp heavy,so a 450watt psu didnt have many amps on the 12v rail. 3DFX had to get ahead of the PSU makers at the time by including a laptop brick for powering the V5 6000. you will see modded V5 6000's with a 4pin molex so the power brick isnt needed.

 

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

LOL! Nice find!

 

[reclaimer122]

But if its plugged directly into the wall, won't it make your lights dim?

SLI certified lights anyone? Just $50 apiece.

 

[Th3 F4ll3n P1mp]

Lol, how about SLI certified speakers?

 

[ghost_recon88]

SLI certified lights anyone?

They're called 60 watt bulbs

 

[reclaimer122]

They're called 60 watt bulbs

I like my florescents. 13w I think, and it's brighter than a 75W. Plus I like pure white better than that yellow-ish white. Soooo... how bout that GTX 280?

 

[ghost_recon88]

I like my florescents. 13w I think, and it's brighter than a 75W. Plus I like pure white better than that yellow-ish white. Soooo... how bout that GTX 280?

Touché. So yes, what about the GTX280? 2 weeks until it drops

 

[Anubis_386]

From the Fud ..

Thanks to the nice tool of W1zzard, the chap that runs techpowerup.com, we managed to get you the real deal infos of Geforce GTX 280.

The card uses the GT200 codename, and is 65nm and as you can see it has 32ROPs, blazing 240 Shaders and, of course, it does support only DirectX 10, not the 10.1. Nvidia simply doesn’t like DirectX 10.1 and that’s it.

At the same time, the GTX 280 card works at 600MHz, memory works at 1100MHz (2200MHz effectively) while Shaders are happy at the 1300MHz clock speed.

With a 512-bit bus Nvidia can do 141.7GB/s, which is quite a lot of bandwidth for this 1024MB GDDR3 powered card. The card itself reminds us of an advanced Geforce 9800 GTX designed card with GX2 finish touch, but we've promised that we won't take pictures. People get upset when we take pictures of unannounced cards, as if they are an inappropriately dressed Britney Spears, so we didn’t take any.

EDIT: WOOOOO! Got me another star - up to 6 now