hercules 9700 Board Picture and Info!!!!

[SSXeon5]

Hercules 9700 128MB

It will work @ 300Mhz Core/ 650Mhz Memory. That is 25Mhz slower core then atis reference board, but 30Mhz more memory then it as well. It looks very sexy and I need to see what it does against the BB Ati card. It is set for a september release.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1029210163

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[boyRacer]

:Q

 

[Rand]

I wonder if Soyo will reprise their position of creating the highest clocked 'flagship' ATi graphics card as they did with the R8500.

 

[SSXeon5]

Originally posted by: Rand
I wonder if Soyo will reprise their position of creating the highest clocked 'flagship' ATi graphics card as they did with the R8500.

They did??? Link me to it I havent seen a soyo Radeon 8500!

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[Lonyo]

I love the little blue heatsinks on the memory, they look so cool. I want to get that card now.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

NICE!

 

[gururu]

Looks great. Why they have to lower the gpu clock kills me though.

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: SSXeon5

Originally posted by: Rand
I wonder if Soyo will reprise their position of creating the highest clocked 'flagship' ATi graphics card as they did with the R8500.

They did??? Link me to it I havent seen a soyo Radeon 8500!

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Don't know of any links, off-hand... their in relatively low quantity. I only remember seeing one review of the Soyo R8500 and that was quite some time ago, no idea where it was at now.
Sold a few of them however.

They clock their R8500's at 290/290 in OEM and Retail.

 

[z0mb1e]

Originally posted by: gururu
Looks great. Why they have to lower the gpu clock kills me though.

This is because of the extremely high transitor count on the .15nm manufatoring process. I'm assuming that Hercules will be able to get higher yields and lower costs for the change in clock speed.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

This is because of the extremely high transitor count on the .15nm manufatoring process.

Yes that is true. ATI decided to stick with the tried and true .15 micron fab process over the risky .13... But with so many transistors, the 325MHz 9700 Pro are the "elite" chips from the yeilds. ATI's partners will have a better time and be able to spend less money picking from higher yeilds of slower chips.

I wonder what class of ram ATI's 9700 Pro will use compared to the Hercules version... there is a chance that the Pro's ram could overclock much more than the Herc... or vise versa...