Pix of the G280!

Anyone able to read Chinese?

I think July is way too early tho, sorry. Ive heard the refresh may come late 3rd qtr or 4qtr

I dont think you can compare any previous nVidia card clock for clock or any other thing with these cards. Its not a true new arch, but so far from the G80 it isnt funny

True, sometimes big things (power consumption) do come in smaller packages. I was mainly looking at it as a nice looking card. Ive heard anything from 247 to 147 for power usage. I think the 147 doesnt include the mobos 75 watts myself

Im sure you know this card is pushing the limits. Only one other power option would be 2 8pins for a card at this point. This is going to eat power, and hopefully eat games and fps as well

One thing that hsa me sold to Nvidia over Ati is the way the card looks.I mean just look at it.Its so easy on my eyes all wrapped in a stealthy looking package.I would buy the 9800gtx anyday not because of how it performs, but the way it looks.ATI should try to do the same too.the only current ATI card thats cools on my eyes are the HIS ICEq 3 versions.

I think it looks like a boring black slab that couldn't possibly hold anything interesting inside... quite bland...
maybe because it is so black, it blends to the background and hides all the details. Ati's vivid red is much better, even Ferraris look better in red lol

wow nice looking card... hopefully the HS doesn't suck... I might wanna get an after market cooler instead if it does suck

God that GTX 280 looks liek a gaming console in-itself. I bet its bigger than the Wii.

i guess you have got a open window in your system The_Abyss.i dont blame you.

but nowadays almost every thing perform similar to others.only looks differentiate them.style is what everyone whats to achieve.but then again there are people who are after performance and they will have like 8 3000rpm fan in there case.and some who want quietness with all black out side with slow spinning fan or watercooling.

it just really what you desire i think.and to prove my point further when you get some friend over whodont know what you talking about when you mention names like 9800GTX Crucial ballistx,the only thing that will make them WOW is the look of your PC and performance tend to be second.

i have build so many pc for different people.most of them will say i want it to have fancy fan controller and cold cathode and so on.you get it now?

I see.

Looks pretty long, hard to say the length of that motherboard but I think the card might be 12"?

edit: at least they didn't put the power connectors on the end of the card.

shadow you seem not so positive about the GTX280.i think those picture is accurate since nvidia kept the GTX280 project so secret people over at GPU-Z couldnt program the ultility to recognise the card properly.but the default clock is read from the BIOS which says the clock speed by default.

so i think it is accurate.plus the bandwidth the fillrate and such is calculated theoratically by the running speed anyway.so if the guys cant get the default figures how can they work it out.

wel cheaper card is always gonna get limited.but not so same with the ati card as they just change the clock and rip people off with the higher speed card.
3850/3870=same SP but just different clock speed for core and memory

tell me if im wrong.

get the GTX280.but side note:YOU GOT DEEP POCKET?OR YOUR CREDIT CARD AVAILABLE?LOL!!!

I have a window in my case and I really don't care what the 5% of the card that I can see, looks like

did nvidia release the price of the cards? all i hear is 599-649$ for gtx 280 and 449$ for gtx 260. true or false?

^ well the 4870 x2 is 550... so either its on par with the gtx 280 and they are being competitive price wise... or its not as good... which I'm beginning to suspect