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Just as high, if not higher more than likely. Just a single 280 GTX has 8pin+6pin PCIe power connectors. If GT200 is 65nm, it is supposed to have an actual ~250 watt TDP... The infamous R600 drew only around 230W. NVIDIA will probably aim for 55nm though, since this will be a 1billion+...

What they are doing is adding some flashy marketing FUB. :D Gigabyte is bad enough about doing that so I can't single out ASUS there. Gigabyte confessed their DQ6 uses a "Quad triple phase" design, not a fully 12 mosfet/choke design. Much of it is just extra redundancy more than actual extra...

It looks like the negative feedback was listened to, if you look at those "updates" especially... :) http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmva_hotfix_101/

Hah! That's pretty interesting to know, because I have a friend of mine that uses MSN via Pidgin (my fault because I was pushing Pidgin as a better alternative), and has those exact same issues. In fact I started noticing them myself, which was the final straw for me. I also was using it when...

Yes I've thought about upgrading... to Opera 9.5. :D Looks like some nice upgrades to FF there, but that's definitely one messed up performance chart they try to push over... :rolleyes:

B1lk1, that is my same opinion, although for the opposite reason. I think some of these upgrades and reterofits could or would have prevented future issues. We built 5 shuttles plus Enterprise that is a prototype and not able to fly in space, and was partly stripped down for parts long ago...

The MSN service routes all transfers through their servers.. so they can monitor or do whatever they want with the data. That is why they tend to be slower than anyone else. I rarely have issues with AIM and Pidigin, but that's unfortunately the exception more than the rule with other IMs and...

I have no issue with this, I would fully agree with you here. My point was a retail chip would overclock farther, therefore it naturally is a better test of a motherboard's capabilities. Basically I'm quibbling over pennies of difference. ;) If it was a spectacular ES chip that was obviously...

P35/X38/X48 are all 90nm. P45 and G35 are 65nm. Gigabyte tends to have board power efficiency down pat in comparison to ASUS. Usually I see Gigabyte's boards winning by ~5 watts, including the 12 choke models. If you compare DES verses EPU, Gigabyte widens the gap considerably. Such as...

I knew he wasn't right in the head, but I didn't know he was a complete fruitloop. Rob, that was nice ;)

Nvidia probably doesn't have a solid price set yet anyway. I don't expect ATI to best these cards, but from what I've followed they should come very close... and thanks to their prices they're likely going to force Nvidia's hand on launching with prices slightly lower than they'd prefer... One...

Intel is still having supply issues, due to strong demand for 45nm Quads elsewhere. And their planned price cuts won't help anything either. I bet this chip will be rather scarce for awhile...

No, but I don't usually tend to open 5+ links to the main site at the same time. ;) If I go slow enough and let pages fully load beforethen it almost never happens... it happens rare enough that I can just hit F5 for the few pages that don't make it and they reload correctly, not a biggie.

ATI wouldn't be ATI if they didn't jump on the new RAM bandwagon. Ironically... GDDR5 draws significantly less power than GDDR3, has error correcting ability, but most of all it costs less to put on the PCB. GDDR5 requires a less complex solder configuration, partly due to fewer pins to...

Yes, it would require a rather major overhaul, to put it mildy. I can certainly understand that. I believe it would have been feasible though, the US Navy operated multiple aircraft carriers launched between 1943-46 well into the 70's before they were removed from the service list. They had...

Merlin, actually the article was talking about 8086 chips. The 8086 predates the 286, which I called the "80286" in my post. And you are right, it offered better than 200% the performance clock for clock over the 8086.

I'm all fine and dandy for not upgrading when the extra capacity isn't needed, but there are innumerable other reasons they should've upgraded some of that junk that have nothing to do with simply "getting better performance". I wasn't making up that 1 pound weight = 10 pounds of fuel ratio...

Heh, try this one on for size. Friend point me at it... ;) http://www.geek.com/nasa-needs-8086-chips/

There have been quite a number of very interesting P45 boards set to launch, Gigabyte with their usual overboard excesses, ASUS with their now TRIPLE phase RAM, triple phase northbridge and 16 choke/phase CPU power system that is in reality not even close to 12 (Just like Gigabyte's 12phase set...

Hmm, well good to know. I couldn't agree more, things are definitely tightening and the gas situation is hurting quite a few things. I wouldn't argue any of that. I just don't see the doom and gloom side of the story fleshing out, but if gas continues to spike and that in turn continues to...