Asus to Support GeForce GTX 480 Voltage Tweaks?

[Guest]

50% is not true btw marketing

 

[chili con carnage]

I'm hoping we can get some photos of the anti-static bags and foam inserts the 480/470s will ship in before the 26th...

 

[jojesa]

[citation][nom]elie3000[/nom]50% is not true btw marketing[/citation]
If you read the fine print the “tweak” consists on installing a second equally equipped card.

 

[DFGum]

50%.... roflllll

 

[Guest]

I'm with that that guy ^

 

[Tindytim]

Negative, the gtx 480 is gonna blow the doors off of the 5870, and in highly tessellated games even the 5970. Heaven 2 benchmark will prove that. Plus, we have physx and 3d in 3way. Bet you wish you had physx. (bet he has a nvidia card in his system to do it. ROFL)

All of those are conditional.
IF the game uses Nvidia's proprietary API
IF the game makes heavy use of tessellation
IF the game supports Nvidia's 3D technology

The issue being Nvidia spends so much time trying to come up with new gimmicks, it forgets to create something that will haul today's applications. Future applications can user future hardware.

Before you go accusing me of being some sort of ATI fanboy, I really would prefer if Nvidia were on top here. ATI's driver support is generally abysmal, and they are slow to support new technologies in Linux. Nvidia releases Linux drivers just around release times, and up until a few years ago getting and ATI graphics solution was suicide.

 

[kelemvor4]

Nice to see a box from a supplier I'd actually consider buying from.

 

[shubham1401]

Tired of seeing boxes...

 

[sam00]

I'm with that that guy ^

 

[liquidsnake718]

OD's fermi vs OCd Cypress....... let these bench battles begin!!!!

 

[Guest]

Would be a lot funnier if it said 2 or 3 % on the box 😛

 

[tony singh]

just how the fuc* can overclock make on already power hungry hot card 50% faster?? 15-20% is believeable but 50% is cheap marketing shit..

 

[blashyrkh]

Voltage tweak on a 300W TDP card??
Yea, 50% more performance while ...YOU WATCH THE CARD BURST INTO FLAMES!!

 

[4ILY45]

[citation][nom]njkid3[/nom]i can only imagine what would happen to a fermi over volted, maybe a small thermonuclear explosion[/citation]

Now i have to get a lead plated casing... LOL

 

[Guest]

I just got my new gtx480 !! but its a empty box !!!! they said they ll ship my new GTX480 without box on Friday !!!!

 

[Guest]

Say what you want about performance, Fermi is groundbreaking for another reason: CUDA. It will be the philosopher's stone for scientific calculations, chiefly due to the architecture. See here why:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/fermi_white_papers/D.Patterson_Top10InnovationsInNVIDIAFermi.pdf

A GT240M on my laptop offers me a 4.5x speed improvement for single precision operations in a Matlab environment (using an unsupported open source toolbox), with only 48 cores. A GTX285 has 240 cores and offers double precision, at a computational premium. Fermi has 512 cores (480 for the GTX480) and will offer dp with almost no premium, as well as proper error correction, proper memory management, etc.

You do the math. It's power to the masses for the scientific community.

 

[eddieroolz]

I like how those with "adverse reactions to boxes" still decide to crowd stories of boxes anyway, posting their tired old "benchmark" line to irritate those who actually care.

Either way, ASUS is top, up there with XFX IMO. Voltage tweak would probably only for those willing to watercool their card.

 

[juliom]

[citation][nom]dreamphantom_1977[/nom]Same people who say "take your time get it right" are the ones who are complaining when they do. Who cares if the card beats ati's 5870 in framerates? It's bringing physx , direct X 11, and 3 display 3D to the table in a slightly faster package. Plus it's got a hell of a tessellation engine so it's gonna be future proof. Luckily, I didn't spend my money on an ati card and waited. Can't wait to play the latest phyx titles on it when they get released.[/citation]

Friend, you are nothing more than a sheep.

 

[descendency]

50% increase*



*over lowest possible performance.

 

[lindsayp]

all i hear is blah blah blah , about these cards people for gods sake wait until the dam thing is in your hands or the benchmarkers and see what it will really do. theres been so dam much speeculation, and rumors and all the other crap out there give them a chance to see what it will do hands on. i remeber when the 8800gtx came out it was the same story and we all know what a power house it is, if it deserves to be condemened then do it after we get it hands on and not by looking at a box or rumored specs. everything deserves a fair shot out of the gate, jmho.

 

[cinergy]

Even with default voltage Fermi can barely avoid core meltdown.

 

[rhino13]

50% gain by raising voltages?
nVidia is already shutting down shaders to deal with the voltage problem!

"I'm give'n 'er all she's got captin!" - Scotty

 

[Chris_TC]

50% sounds crazy, and it's certainly a best-case scenario. But I don't understand how people can call it impossible before a single test has even surfaced.

In terms of marketing, "+30%" on the box would do the trick just fine. So there's probably a reason why Asus chose "+50%".

 

[icemunk]

Cook those cards! rofl. I hear they already run hot enough, I have a feeling people are going to be burning their cards out a lot especially with voltage tweaking... Nvidia must be thinking more along the lines of disposable video cards, that'll come with their next patch lol.

 

[siman]

braking news nvidia now allows you to bypass the power grid...