OMG! I hope the price wont be that ridiculous!

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Added on December 28, 2007, 5:56 pmbut this is juz a rumoured spec, isn't it??

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Dec 28 2007, 05:56 PM

it's because GDDR5 is much more cheaper than GDDR4, yet more faster..

then go someone kind enough to sponsor u a card..

or better and the best way, go earn urself some money..

are u sure?got any source? GTA was originally built for PC, now Rockstar has forgotten PC already.. what a crap from them..

GDDR5 should be cheaper coz it's made on a lower production process than GDDR4, expected to be 4 times faster than GDDR3 and uses 20% lower in its power consumption..

i guess since Samsung and Qimonda has already developed the GDDR5, i can see why Nvidia wants to jump directly to GDDR5..

yeah, agreed with what u say there, but the mass production of GDDR5 by Samsung and Qimonda will be one of the reason why it will be cheaper than GDDR4..

GDDR4 was first used on the X1950XTX in around August 2007.. now it's being used too but only by fewer models of ATI series.. the need for GDDR4 is not that high, and now since Nvidia has already made its decision to jump to GDDR5, it will, if not all, affect the price for GDDR4 as well as the GDDR5 itself..

Nvidia influences the market so greatly because it holds a greater proportion of the gfx current market, if i'm not mistaken, in the ratio of 7:3, which was originally by 9:1 because of their success in their 8 series currently..

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Jan 3 2008, 06:35 PM

i'm not saying they jump directly to GDDR5 because of the price alone.. Hynix, Samsung and Qimonda has already in the state of mass production of the GDDR5, it means the technology is already there, then why must they have still to be bounded by GDDR4 rite?

It might be better then to go for wider buses and faster memory rite? and yes, it's about the GDDR5 is already there.. like Qimonda, they skip the GDDR4 because they see it as a niche product.. it would be a loss for them to produce GDDR4 while Samsung, its main competitor has already announced the GDDR5 memory.. the life cycle of GDDR4 wont be that long, we can see them (Hynix, Samsung, Qimonda) have already made to public about its GDDR5.. yes it will be initially expensive but in large amount of quantities, it will be cheaper..

and GDDR4 memory speed isnt that impressive as you can see it on most ATi products that use GDDR4, the speed doesn't differ much from optimized GDDR3.. Nvidia plans to abandon it because of Qimonda announced the GDDR3 with able-to-achieve clock of 1GHz, almost equal to GDDR4 memory and maybe even more than that, expected to able to reach as high as 1.2GHz (2.4GHz effective)... the need of GDDR4 is lesser coz it's being used by ATI and the market share for ATI cards isn't that impressive either..

there are no clear reasons why they wanna skip the GDDR4, but we can guess it why from the benefits of performance and manufacturing costs of both GDDR4 and GDDR5 as announced by major memory manufacturers..

not sure about this but possible.. i guess Nvidia wants to produce GDDR5-based cards so badly to force people to abandon the GDDR4-based cards which ATI is currently selling.. lol..

obviously people will prefer something faster and newer rite?

yeah, DirectX 10 based games is hardly playable with current generation of cards, then the 10.1 is out already.. what a crap..

that's what i've been trying to say..

i personally think those are the reasons they are skipping it..

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Added on January 5, 2008, 3:50 pm

at least 580W of PSU needed.. do u think these beasts are wise in power consumption?

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Jan 5 2008, 03:50 PM

lol.. your wet dream will soon be reality.. you are sponsored right?

i'm not very sure about the driver though.. i thought last time Quad-SLI was a failure..

Ultra wont drop that much.. it still got its value for users who wanna do tri-SLI..

gotta compared 1st how the new Quad-9800GX2 performs side by side with tri-SLI 8800 Ultra...

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Jan 6 2008, 07:49 PM

1.1K? should be getting 8800GTS instead..

which brand produces 96GT with DDR4, mind to tell?

the 9800GX2 is meant to be the replacement of the 8800 Ultra..

no more Ultra after this coz Nvidia must be sure to focus on selling the sandwich card as many as possible..

read here...

the GS is actually intended for the OEM market.. but due to profit-minded company which is none other than Nvidia, they do supply some certain manufacturers (Asus, Palit, XFX) the 88GS chips to be sold under retail products..

let them cry lol since they still wanna get the 'fact' straight that 96GT is more powerful than the 88GT'..

that's the Asus custom-made Glaciator cooler.. to the owner, care to post its idle and load temp?

as expected from the Glaciator heatsink lorhh.. wonder what's the load temp..