MSI's GeForce GTX 480 to Offer Over Voltage Too

[Marcus Yam]

MSI advertises a more conservative 15 percent performance boost with more juice.

MSI's GeForce GTX 480 to Offer Over Voltage Too : Read more

 

[elel]

Next generation of SLI: forget the second vid card, go for a second power supply!

 

[builderbobftw]

Wow, Somebody at MSI knows the first thing about Graphics cards, and any air cooling can't make it 50% faster!

 

[Guest]

so it MSI's over volt will be a smaller thermonuclear explosion compared to asus's bigger one

 

[jennyh]

I'm so glad the rest of the tech world stop progressing so rubbish Fermi information could be made interesting.

Oh wait my mistake, this is only happening on THG.

 

[one-shot]

Just release the damned thing already. I've seen way too many boxes, way too many volt mod cards, and have yet to see anything I'm interested in. I wonder how much nVidia is paying Toms to post ten new boxes each day?

 

[dimar]

Next: Gigabyte, XFX, and the rest will offer the same thing, yeah yeah yeah... Now if one of them would include a free 2kW 95% efficient power supply, that would be news

 

[calmstateofmind]

if they have a feature where you can increase performance by 15% and it still be stable, why not make that the standard and THEN have an over voltage feature for people with better cooling set ups?

seems more like a made up selling point than an actual over clock...especially with not a lot of people being familiar with fermi technology and its capabilities.

 

[opmopadop]

I for one am interested in these little bits of information. The title of the article did not imply you would see benchmarks. If you dont want to read it, dont get on the forum and bag it.

 

[shmung]

O

 

[tpi2007]

Well, with that kind of heatsink, with 5 heatpipes, high TDP, and 15% overvoltage, you'll have your breakfast with nice toasts ready 15% earlier

 

[brisingamen]

these articles blogs are ablaze! just like these video cards will be so why wouldnt thg keep posting such hilarity?

 

[sabot00]

Perhaps nVidia should start saying "Fermi will cook bacon for you", it has a grill HSF too!

 

[crash_overide228]

NVIDIA stated this on their facebook page on December 17 2009:
"Fun Fact of the Week: GF100 graphics cards will provide hardware support for GPU overvoltaging for extreme overclocking!"

Kinda leads me to think that the overvoltaging is supported.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]crash_overide228[/nom]NVIDIA stated this on their facebook page on December 17 2009:"Fun Fact of the Week: GF100 graphics cards will provide hardware support for GPU overvoltaging for extreme overclocking!"Kinda leads me to think that the overvoltaging is supported.[/citation]

they also said alot of other things some of which werent true

 

[twist3d1080]

[citation][nom]elel[/nom]Next generation of SLI: forget the second vid card, go for a second power supply![/citation]

LOL, you win.

 

[eklipz330]

[citation][nom]calmstateofmind[/nom]if they have a feature where you can increase performance by 15% and it still be stable, why not make that the standard and THEN have an over voltage feature for people with better cooling set ups?seems more like a made up selling point than an actual over clock...especially with not a lot of people being familiar with fermi technology and its capabilities.[/citation]

i'm guessing only the cherry picked one's get the over voltage feature?

 

[curnel_D]

Ok, I'm really not one to complain, but I'm adding my name to the list of those who really don't care anymore. I'm tired of seeing card porn *rolls eyes*. Benchmarks or nothing please.

 

[Dekasav]

It's probably all because Nvidia knows their chips can go a bit faster, but to do it, they need more voltage -> higher clocks. However, Nvidia (and most partners) won't release the standards chips like that, because they'd be well over 300watts, and outside PCI-e spec.

If this is the case, it's not good news for gamers at all. We have standards for very good reasons, and having GPUs released that are dependant on overclocking, especially over-volting isn't a good trend.

 

[Trueno07]

Hah! And i thought it was foolish to want a Stove that doubled as a high end GPU.

Looks like my dreams are gonna come true!

 

[lolsir]

only reason we want fermi to release is cuz we want cheaper ati graphic card )

 

[Zinosys]

Come on. At this point, I feel I'm going to be disappointed with Fermi. With the latest catalyst driver, it looks like it will have ~15% better performance on SOME games/benchies at, oh say, 30% more power than a 5870?

Although some benchies would be nice, the hype seems to exceed the actual performance to the extent that most will be disappointed.

 

[Guest]

WOW! Fermi hype? Didn't see that coming.

 

[Guest]

first fermi benchmarks

http://www.mygaming.co.za/news/hardware/5636-NVIDIA-GTX-480-benchmarks-are.html

 

[rambo117]

I would laugh so hard if nvidia backed down friday and said that fermi has been delayed for another few months..

But then again, amd could keep screwing us over with high prices, so I don't want that to happen too