- Oct 9, 1999
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I was reading the new 3dfx interview over at VE and came to the last question concerning the GF2 Ultra's memory:
<< Voodoo Extreme -- nVidia has added heatsinks to their memory chips. While Hercules did this for the GF2, they did it to allow for overclocking. Why would nVidia ship a reference board with heatsinks? Is this something that will become more commonplace from now on?
3dfx -- There are serious questions as to why Nvidia would put heatsinks on their memory. Just as you mentioned regarding Hercules, there is only one ?justified? reason I can think to put heatsinks on memory. They have announced they are shipping memory on the Ultra at 230MHz. They sent reviewers 250Mhz DDR. Why is that? If they ship 250 MHz DDR to editors to review and plan on using 230MHz DDR for the ?consumer? why didn?t they send 230MHz DDR to editors? There are serious questions here and an interesting story to be told. Perhaps someone will ask them?. >>
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't it stated that regardless of memory all Ultras were sent to reviewers running at 230/460? I believe that nVidia wanted to use 250/500, but the yields weren't too good so those that did hit 500 were still clocked at 230/460 to keep in check with the majority of the batch which was pumping out 230/460.
The whole interview is full of BS! Why does 3dfx let this guy speak?:Q
<< Voodoo Extreme -- nVidia has added heatsinks to their memory chips. While Hercules did this for the GF2, they did it to allow for overclocking. Why would nVidia ship a reference board with heatsinks? Is this something that will become more commonplace from now on?
3dfx -- There are serious questions as to why Nvidia would put heatsinks on their memory. Just as you mentioned regarding Hercules, there is only one ?justified? reason I can think to put heatsinks on memory. They have announced they are shipping memory on the Ultra at 230MHz. They sent reviewers 250Mhz DDR. Why is that? If they ship 250 MHz DDR to editors to review and plan on using 230MHz DDR for the ?consumer? why didn?t they send 230MHz DDR to editors? There are serious questions here and an interesting story to be told. Perhaps someone will ask them?. >>
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't it stated that regardless of memory all Ultras were sent to reviewers running at 230/460? I believe that nVidia wanted to use 250/500, but the yields weren't too good so those that did hit 500 were still clocked at 230/460 to keep in check with the majority of the batch which was pumping out 230/460.
The whole interview is full of BS! Why does 3dfx let this guy speak?:Q