G80 Leaked pictures

[josh6079]

Just some planning ahead, routing wires the same way, and trying to find ways to hide them. Going behind the mobo tray is a common area to hide the wires.

QFT. Especially with air cooling. Thinking about what the motherboard absolutely needs connected to it and knowing how to get rid of slack can help keep things clean and maintain optimal air flow.

The wires that you see connected to my motherboard tray here are ALL of the wires that you can actually see looking inside of my case. Everything else is either routed in the front throught the drive-bay areas, underneath by the hard drive cages, or around the back of the motherboard tray.

Needless to say, a dongle isn't an issue with internal wiring at all.

 

[moddedcompsdotcom]

like everyone else is saying, wow thats a long card

 

[Alkaline Sugar]

i spent $500 on my case. LOL, kinda regreting sometimes.

 

[Alkaline Sugar]

i spent $500 on my case. LOL, kinda regreting sometimes.

 

[R3MF]

i am hoping a later GT version will be the same size as the current 7900GT, so that it will fit in my LC16-M case.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: Alkaline Sugar
i spent $500 on my case. LOL, kinda regreting sometimes.

I was curious to see what kind of case you have, so I checked out your rig...

Nice rig!!! ...but, what kind of case do you have?

 

[Gstanfor]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: Avalon

Maybe this is Rampage 😉

They Should call it the Nvidia GeForce Voodoo Banshee 8800 GTX 🙂 .

Actually, I've heard nvidia entursted a lot of nv30's design to 3dfx engineers while the nvidia engineers focussed on xbox, which would certainly explain a lot...

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: Avalon

Maybe this is Rampage 😉

They Should call it the Nvidia GeForce Voodoo Banshee 8800 GTX 🙂 .

Actually, I've heard nvidia entursted a lot of nv30's design to 3dfx engineers while the nvidia engineers focussed on xbox, which would certainly explain a lot...

sloppiness?

lack of setting priorities?

not enough engineers?

lack of foresight in underestimating the competition?

all of the above?


😀

i wonder your excuse will be this time if your expectations are not met?
:Q

 

[Gstanfor]

One word is enough - Incompetence.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
One word is enough - Incompetence.

you mean nvidia was incompetent in handling the merger!!?! 😛
:shocked:

i can't be reading your post correctly . . . what am i missing?:Q
😕

if so --i guess that is why you are so concerned for the DAAMiT merger

😀

edit: seriously, NV30 was not a bad design . . . the DustBuster was the result when they tried to make it perform faster than it was designed to run.
If r300 wasn't such a 'surprise', no one would be talking badly about nv30's design.

 

[Gstanfor]

There was no merger between nvidia and 3dfx. It was an asset buyout. The 3dfx staff hirings were not related to the buyout (except that during the buyout nvidia offered employment to most of the staff -- most went to ATi instead), that was a seperate transaction.

MInd you nvidia management must take at least some responsibility for not adequately supervising the new engineering staff.

My concern for the AMD-ATi merger is that the money spent needlessly on ATi could have funded an extra fab - something AMD is in dire need of even with the Dresden expansions and the proposed new NA fab.

My suspicion is that the photo's of G80 we have seen thus far are only engineering samples which may or may not represent what the final product will look like.

 

[Gstanfor]

The real mistake made with nv30 was the software and hardware were not tested together until it was way too late for anything to be done about the mismatch.

Given that nvidia in collaboration with Stanford University wrote Cg, which is what HLSL is heavily based on, this would have been a correctable problem if it had been discovered early enough.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
There was no merger between nvidia and 3dfx. It was an asset buyout. The 3dfx staff hirings were not related to the buyout (except that during the buyout nvidia offered employment to most of the staff -- most went to ATi instead), that was a seperate transaction.

MInd you nvidia management must take at least some responsibility for not adequately supervising the new engineering staff.

My concern for the AMD-ATi merger is that the money spent needlessly on ATi could have funded an extra fab - something AMD is in dire need of even with the Dresden expansions and the proposed new NA fab.

My suspicion is that the photo's of G80 we have seen thus far are only engineering samples which may or may not represent what the final product will look like.

i ment 'merger' only in a non technical way - as nvidia swallowed them they did merge assets and engineering . . . but thanks for the 'details' 😉

and i'd say nvidia management must take ALL the responsibility for supervising the work on their product - good or otherwise. 😉

again. . . nv30 was not a 'bad' design . . . just fell 'short'

i'm glad you're concerned for AMD . . . i won't ever write them off . . . they have rebounded and prospered even from much worse situations than now . . . i think ATi's 'know how' will take them in the right direction even as ati gets swallowed up . . .

unlike you, i will miss that cool red company from canada
:thumbsup:

and yeah . . . of course it's an engineering sample . . . you really think it's gonna be a "foot long". 😛

😀

 

[Gstanfor]

I really don't care how long it ends up being, so long as users can physically fit in in their pc and it works well.