R600 + Barcelona

[HannibalX]

I have been thinking that ATI said R600 was ready in December but we never got it. I am wondering if AMD is planning something bigger than the R600 launch and just not saying anything.

 

[nullpointerus]

I heard ATI is waiting on a bundling deal with 3D Realms for the next game in the Duke Nukem series.

 

[TecHNooB]

I thought the unveiling was today. Where are the damn benchmarks :|

 

[yacoub]

They're still getting Duke Forever stable enough to get through the benchmark suite. Something about Duke kept crashing the game whenever the player made him smoke too many cigars.

 

[swtethan]

theyre going to release starcraft 2 also

 

[yacoub]

Originally posted by: swtethan
theyre going to release starcraft 2 also

You only get that if you buy Crossfire edition cards though.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: swtethan
theyre going to release starcraft 2 also

SC2 will not be out before 2009 dont hold your breath.

 

[Extelleron]

Originally posted by: yacoub

Originally posted by: swtethan
theyre going to release starcraft 2 also

You only get that if you buy Crossfire edition cards though.

There are no crossfire cards with the R600 series. Any two cards can be used together. 😉

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: yacoub
They're still getting Duke Forever stable enough to get through the benchmark suite. Something about Duke kept crashing the game whenever the player made him smoke too many cigars.

rofl, stupid underaged kids

 

[yacoub]

Maybe they're waiting b/c they wanted to verify the results of the top secret Inquirer/Fudzilla test that showed Barcelona + R600 gives you extra fps in NVidia-approved games.

 

[Matt2]

They need to hurry up. I need a video card. STALKER kills my system at 1920x1200.

 

[yacoub]

Well this might help:

X2900 XTX running Rainbow Six: Vegas at 1920x1200 w/ 12x AA




(i was bored... had a little fun w/ photoshop 😉)

 

[the Chase]

Yep- in fact they are going to offer a package deal- the HD 2900XT and the 2.5Ghz Vegena CPU for the low, low price of $399. (Or 3 easy payments of $99.99).

 

[BernardP]

How many of you...

...will be able to fit the R600 in their case?

All is not lost...Fudo says there is a shorter version.

 

[yacoub]

Actually from the card size comparison folks have been posting around for the past couple weeks, it's shorter than a GTS, and nowhere near as long as a GTX?

Grain of salt.

212mm vs 230mm for GTS and 270mm for GTX.

 

[BernardP]

Originally posted by: yacoub
Grain of salt.

It's nice to see the 8600GT will fit in MY case 😉

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: the Chase
Yep- in fact they are going to offer a package deal- the HD 2900XT and the 2.5Ghz Vegena CPU for the low, low price of $399. (Or 3 easy payments of $99.99).

I think that availability of the Vegena might be an issue. Very few posters have actually seen it, and many thus consider it vaporware. 😉

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: yacoub
Actually from the card size comparison folks have been posting around for the past couple weeks, it's shorter than a GTS, and nowhere near as long as a GTX?

Grain of salt.

212mm vs 230mm for GTS and 270mm for GTX.

That is supposed to be the shorter retail cooler (which we have yet to see), not the larger OEM verson in the other pics you linked to. IIRC, the OEM version in the fudzilla pics is more like 11-12" long. It appears that as far as PCB length goes, the 8800GTX is still the longest card, but the OEM version of R600 has a fan attached that makes the overall card length longer.

 

[yacoub]

I believe the fan in those pics is not attached but simply sitting behind the heatsink so that the photographer could more easily get a picture of both.