Vill bara Citera ett inlägg från en mycket klok man på ett annat forum, som
likt mig inte tror att NV30 kommer att vara den nya frälsaren!
" I'll be willing to bet that the slower version of the nv30--the one without the gargantuan fan--the one which is not overclocked and requires a standard heatsink (um, if they make one, in fact) won't run any faster than a current 9700 Pro on average, and I'll bet that's why nVidia has gone to this extreme measure of slapping on that ridculous fan and heatsink just to hit 500MHz--because nVidia knows that a normally clocked nv30 with a regular cooling system running at 400Mhz to 425Mhz wouldn't be enough to lick the 9700 Pro. Hence we have the "dustbuster" approach direct from the factory as a part of the reference design itself.
Not only that--but right now nobody knows how hot that DDRII is running--I'll wager it's pretty darn hot at 1GHz DDR. All in all, the giant fan, huge heatsink approach is a testament to just how hard the technology is being pushed to achieve these clock rates--they certainly aren't being achieved comfortably, that's for sure. There's not a doubt in my mind that the cost of that ridiculous heatsink which is so loud nVidia had to design in a "silent running" mode or nobody would buy it......coupled with the *hot* 1GHz ram, is a good deal more expensive than ATI's 8-layer PCB with a 256-bit bus designed in. And ATI's solution delivers more memory bandwidth *right now* than the nv30 is projected to delive in a couple of monthsr--and both the GPU and the ram run much, much cooler at the same time.
The really interesting part to me in all of this is wondering just how far ATI could have clocked the GPU and the ram if ATI were to offer a "dustbuster" model of its own with an ATI-branded turbine of a heatsink!.... I'll wager it would run right up there with the nv30--and with DDR1 and a .15 micron GPU at the same time...!
The thing you should understand is that while nVidia is preparing to play its DDR2 and it's .13 micron cards--ATI hasn't even needed to, yet, and all of that is still ahead of them. Just my two cents, here."
Mycket spännande att se vad NV30 mäktar med när det kommer.
Jag tror många som tror att NV30 skall sopa mattan med 9700PRO blir mycket besvikna...
