i gather they run a tad on the warm side

hehehe that seems about right

lool

Oh come on, no need to flame, Nvidia is doing it already.

hehehehe man , good one .

LMAO...Ah that was great.

Hahaha, this is great!

rofl

Nvidia trying to up one on the Saphire Vapor-X technology now has "Vaporize-X..With PhysX!"

on the upside your computer can now also be your stove

LOL!

Some great physx and flame effects in there though...lol

it problie be some thing like that but the area that would get damaged would just be your house and all your belongings lol

If that did happen l wounder what would you say to your wife,gf,family or friends that come over, 1st thing they say is
WTF HAPPENED here what did you do

come to think of it do you even think this card beable to run on 3 sli with stock coolers with out frying something

Oh my nvidia is going to start Dooms day? Maybe it's because the power 3 gtx 480s would draw would cause a Nuclear reactor to melt down lol.

Squall would argue that that only happened because the chip is so advanced that when you combined 3 together it gained self awareness and a hunger to destroy Intel/AMD.

LMAO.

Can you tell me from wich film does this scene come from ?

Ferminator...lol

Terminator 2: Judgement day - Awesome film from the legend James Cameron

Maybe that is why we have not heard from poor old Squall. He tried to put three 480's in SLI. Reducing himself and his home to ashes.

The review was a little vague. It's the bomb, right?

HAHAHA!

Spot on!

IoI

omg u dunno !!! its from terminator

lyla + 20!!

That was just priceless.

HA HA HA!

bwhahaha it's funny because it's true =)

GJ Reg.

+1 rofl

diezgan traki

i knew Fermi would take a lot to get out and i knew the first gen would not be perfect... or at least not exactly what we expected

so...

awaiting smaller gen... yes.. thats the one..

Are you related to Squall?

Funny thing is that all You haters (with reason) shuld not be so happy about all that .
If the Fermi was a very good from the first day with out all the BS , it probable wuld create tight competition with Ati , now we have one side on the top .

Meybe im noob in all this but that is only thing that come to me about Fermi . I wanted some price drops , we have shit .

Dont get me wrong im getting a 4890 very cheap , so dont pull any fanboism shit here

what??

did you think for a second i would prefer buying a 6 month old HD5xxx?
when fermi is much more improved for tesselation and raytracing at this point?


i am on the green side for now...
BUT i will not buy a DX11 card right away.. i don't have much reasons to do it!

i will do it when the 32nm or 28nm version of fermi arrives! it will be perfected!

fermi took a lot of money and time to develop and i consider it the most advanced gfx chip in the world!

now i wanna see what will ati do for it's next big thing... the so called HD6XXX as it does not have nvidia financial resources....


you know sometimes is not good the be number 1 arriving at the market with new things..(dx11 and premature tesselation properties) cause if something goes wrong.. the number one arriving is the first one to fall..


But hey... to be fair if ati does pull it off first and it is good.. then we shall have a winner!


and i'll tell you a secret... i was never hoping for the first gen of fermi to be the major gfx card.. i knew it would be big and hot... it always is at the first attempt...

and another secret.. i know many of the users here think as i think.. =)

why buy the guns if there aren't any bullets??? let the true dx11 games come then we shall see

I restrain from quoting your posts, but this is priceless. Have fun running some tessellation heavy demos on your Nvidia card, lol.

You can buy yourself a watercooled version and that sorts the heat/noise, but you could also buy yourself a car with the same money.

never thought going into WC sets.. to expensive... when i did my math.. it was not worth it...

who cares about the noise and heat... as long as it delivers the required performance...

either way i always play with my headset on so.. i would not hear anything

yeah... demos for now.. is funny how some people just think now and not tomorrow...


we all know true DX 11 games will feature tesselation and then i will see some numbers...

then your expression will be priceless when you realize fermi has more work in it then the Hd5XXX in tesselation terms!

but to me the True DX 11 war will be when ATI releases its HD6xxx and nvidia its improved Fermi at 32 nm...

by then fermi will not be a heat monster...

There are already games that feature tessellation, but it is extremely doubtful in this generation of cards, they will feature enough tessellation to cause a real performance difference, as it is only extreme over the top levels of tessellation that highlights any differences.

Dirt2 for example.

I don't believe anyone here is saying that Fermi is slower than Ati...just that it has quit a downside to achieve that. They struggled to produce Fermi at 40 nm, I am not sure I would hold my breath waiting for the 32 nm version.

But the key thing with GFX to remember, is you can always take 2xCHEAPO DX11 card, to beat 1xOVERPRICED DX11 card. If performance is all that matters.

But tbh I don't see a single game out there atm that makes me want to or need to upgrade from a 4000 series card, or if I had a Nvidia card, the 200 series.

GEESH! not even the green fanboy Oblivion wants a GTX 480, now thats depressing for nVidia haha.

erm.. no.. not yet... but no way i would go for a "old" HD5XXX right now either...


to soon to buy dx 11 stuff... i'll let things mature a bit (as usual)... then we shall see...

Thank you for the most honest review out there!

ObliVioN_ :

Sadly, there would be no Fermi in 32nm..... Search the reports regarding TSMC. Besides ruining ATi's schedule..... It's almost literally the final nail in the coffin for Fermi. They would need a new architecture.... Or at least branch it.

Although there's a good possibility of a Fermi successor that is on 22nm.

i think the realy way isn´t the gtx480 or new series after it... or 5xxx / 6xxx series of ati... the way will be fusion... i did see project of fusion of cpu and gpu... gpgpu integred... it is fantastic!... (you may use other card to video... of course... but the power of gpu in fusion... its great!) i pray to AMD can do it FAST! =) (actualy i have intel i7)

I honestly dont think fusion, larabee or the like will ever replace the graphics card for serious applications like real gaming

no 32nm for nVdia or ati... read somewhere that they both going straight for 28nm... it appears 32 nm is not worth the hassle!

quite a shrink indeed.... 40 nm -> 28 nm!

and it should solve the heat problems.. etc.. but i dunno any dates for this... some say it will take quite a while for 28 nm chips to arrive...




and about what blindartist said about fusion..
i read things about it..
it is indeed a good idea... but is it the right way to follow in terms of true graphics applications?

Think 28nm at TSMC is sliping further back....Global Foundries will probably be the ealiest (Q1 Q2 2011) and best bet from recent performance, by far the most efficient and reliable.

TSMC pulled the plug on 32 nm, and seeing how much trouble they had getting 40 nm out, I do not have faith in them achieving 28 nm any time in the next few years, if at all. What is nVidia gonna do then? Go crawling to Global Foundries? ATI is already designing a chip for Global Foundries to fab, so they have a huge head start there.

So whats this saying? I better hurry up and get watercooling particularly if I need 2 of these hehe.

so it looks like ATi is going to be first out with the next gen again and with 28nm.....green team are falling behind badly.

Ein grund mehr ATi zu nehmen.

No you will need to immerse the whole computer in liquid nitrogen.

FARK I lol'd so hard i fell off my seat

Damn, I should get my bunker ready, this must have happen in europe or something like that, because the last 2 days were pretty hot almost 90 f, I think this helped beat the record temperature for today. These video cards have a tremendous effect on the weather!!! I hope this does not happen in the US, where I live, I don't wanna die, I don't!!! Nvidia = hands down fail!!!

so here's another post after about a month since fermi got its start and guess what. a BIOS revision for my 480 Vanilla reduce my temps by 10c. use to get up to 90c in Heaven 2.0, now its only 80c and this is Oced too. 834/1668/2083. Im getting watercooling anyways for this card and it does GREAT under watercooling. 56c 100% load using a Koolance VID-NX480 at 875/1750/2100. This little shit is a nice overclocker.