Geforce 8800GTX Spy Pics! Will this run The Sims at 640X480?

Spy pictures of the new Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX by Asus!

Im so excited. These are the rumored specs.

GeForce 8800GTX
Core clock: 575MHz
Pixel pipelines: 128
Memory: 768MB DDR3
Memory interface: 384-bit
Memory bandwidth: 86GB/s

GeForce 8800GTS
Core clock: 500MHz
Pixel pipelines: 96
Memory: 640MB DDR3
Memory interface: 320-bit
Memory bandwidth: 64GB/s

The 8800GTX is suppossed to by 11Inches long! Holy crap.

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Lets make this a good discussion.

R u serious 11 inches. Damn. It will be 3 inches into my hard drives. I just bought this case. This sucks.

Pre-production model. We'll see if it's 11" when it is released. As for now, I don't believe that's a retail product.

Will it fit into my Shuttle case?

i read somwhere that because of these cards therre might have to be some atx revisions due to the size and so there is adequate airflow around the cards


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I'm sorry to say that the 8800GTX isn't that powerful. You will be able to play The Sims at 640x480, but it will be in shades of grey, not color.

There's no way they're gonna get away with it being 11" long, almost noone has a case that big.

There's no way in hell I'm gona buy one of those because I just don't need it, but for those of you who do buy them, you can always mount your hard disks in 5 1/4in drive bays. I've had mine like that with a couple of fans stuck in the gap on the other side for a few months, they've never run cooler and I don't think only being mounted on one side is stressing them at all.

With a careful use of an acetylene torch you can heat the card while slowly bending it. That way for all you small case user will be able to fit this card. That or you could saw the half end but would lose about 512mb of memory and 30fps to the card.

I have an Ultra Aluminus case so I guess I'll be able to fit it in my case... too bad my budget won't allow it. I'll have to settle for the new X1650XT... from what I've heard, for $140-$150, it can't be beat. And it'll be a HUGE upgrade from the integrated 6100 I'm running.

Haha! That makes me laugh...

It sounds from the specs that they threw it together. The bus speed isnt a 2^x type number. Is is 256 +128?? WTF?
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Lol. I practically stole my case... got it from Fry's last friday for $80, and it has a $60 rebate. Same for my PSU... Ultra 500W, $70 with $50 rebate... really good deals.

EDIT: and the gloss on the aluminum frame is amazing. It also happens to be incredibly light... i was upgrading from a generic case about 2/3 the size of the Aluminus, and the Aluminus weighs less.

I've heard a few rants about Ultra PSU's, but lots of good stuff as well. This is flat out the best PSU I have ever had... 120mm fan, dual rail, SLI support, and a kick ass black gloss finish that looks awesome through the window of my Aluminus.

LOL:

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Haha that thing was hilarious. Looks like something that was built from a "my first computer board" kit.

This 8800 better rock with these outlandish size and power reqts and that absurd price.

Ahh the Voodoo5 6000... it was a monstrosity to behold. I don't know if you can see it in that pic, but I'm pretty sure the card (or some versions of it) came with an external power brick.

Imagine that with a modern heatsink and fan snapped on... you'd probably need supporting brackets to hold it up.

Just cut the back out, it will be air cooled at room temperature for 75% of the length of the card.

Does anyone remember voodoo's first version of SLI? One AGP card and One PCI Card? Only like 3 games supported it. I remember a buddy of mine had one of those setups. People b*tch about loud fans now? That thing sounded like a 747 taking off.

I'm glad I got a full sized tower... people look at it and think it is too big... I'm laughing now, I just measured and I could get a 16" card in

Just cut the back out, it will be air cooled at room temperature for 75% of the length of the card.

Does anyone remember voodoo's first version of SLI? One AGP card and One PCI Card? Only like 3 games supported it. I remember a buddy of mine had one of those setups. People b*tch about loud fans now? That thing sounded like a 747 taking off.
Does it fly? 8O

heh its like prescott (and smithfield), amd 4x4, and geforce 5800 all put together in one kickass "bigger is better" sort of way.

no r u kidding ^. a shuttle wtf, it is as long as your case noob

That HS/F is strangely reminiscent of the 6800 Ultra's

Holy freaking God. Now I wish I'd gotten a badass-er PSU and a full-tower case...suddenly my Hiper 580 and Lian Li mid-tower seem inadequate. I took some measurements and found that I think the GTS will just barely fit in the case. Barely. It's a little bit bigger than my X1900XT, and that's not a tiny card.

Cable routing's gonna be fun with the 3 hard drives and the lights...I'll have to get pretty creative. Either that, or get a full-tower and save my brain

I also hope if you put 2 or 4 of them in SLI, they'll scale better than their predecessors.

Heck, maybe NVIDIA will be redesigning their SLI structure - I sure can't see any bridge connectors on the card from those pics, but that may be from the almost-could-have-been-three-slots-wide cooler. Look at that thing - it actually spills over into the next slot slightly!

Right now AMD-ATI is either laughing or crying at pics like these. I'd really like to see what they have up their R600 sleeves.

It's times like these that makes me feel really good about buying a coolermaster stacker...

Eitherway I hope they will shrink it a bit before launch and maybe curb the power requirements by the next gen.

I volunteer... someone other than me... to partake in this mission. It is dangerous and there is a 98.3% chance you will get fused to metal arms that are smarter than you (spider man 2 for those who have seen it) God, you can imagine that power people (Duke Power in South Carolina) are itching for the launch day...

dogs, contrary to popular belief, can see colours.