That depends on whether I feel like adding another waterblock or not and how well R600 overclock compared to X1900XT. i.e. worth the $
Aha! See I was under the impression you were going for a 5 finger discount, what you seem to be talking about is a 'chose a very select card from the 10s put before you that day' , hand picked from the line. In which case,
If X1950XT goes below 1.0ns RAM I'll probably buy it, if not I'm sticking with X1900XT.
I think IMO you won't find X1900XTs anyways, they probably haven't been making them for over a month I would think (likely already have enough inventory).
As for the RAM all the early pics have 0.91ns memory on them as you can see here;
They'd have to be below 1.0ns, because the stock speed is 2GHZ (1GHZ DD) and thus 1.0ns would be the minimum requirement, and you'd want the specc to have some headroom for case heat concerns etc. but there's not "MUCH" headroom as the spec for thos is 1095mhz thus you'd likely get less than 10% OC without great cooling. Some people are saying those are XT shots we're seeing and the XTX will have faster memory still, but I doubt it. The next increment is 0.85ns which is 1250mhz, which IMO is way beyond 1ghz, and more than enough buffer to even allow you 1200mhz as a 'stock' target.
Both will support GDDR4 (not really that important to me as long as they equip them with low ns RAM)
I suspect GDDR5 support is in the R600 as well, but maybe not first round, maybe that's a refresh thing, GDDR4 is scheduled to run to 1.4GHZ, but they've been able to push it to beyond 1.6GHZ. GDDR5 is scheduled for late 2007 (they'll barely get a chance with GDDR4) so I suspect we'll see it in card early to mid 2008. So it'd be interesting to see if the R600 supports GDDR5 out of the box or not, because I could see them expecting that marchitecture to last longer than the G80 which is supposed to have a fast refresh to the G90, so why bother with GDDR5 support. But likely we'll see a GDDR5 support refresh for the R680 instead. Anywhoo, just thinking out loud.
I'm set on X1900XT for Christmas unless X1950XT comes with something crazy like 0.8ns RAM
Well 0.85 is one of the persistent rumours, but I doubt it based on the pics we've already seen of early boards.
I ain't letting those dirty GPU/VPU manufactures taking easy money from me, they gotta earn it!
Well you see I think Raven and I thought you were gonna take some back for the rest of us, fight the powers that be! :mrgreen: