It needs to be the damn 22nd already. All the speculation is driving me nuts and the fervor is reading a feverish pitch now.
I swear red vs. green has more hatred in it than East vs. West did.
"RADEON HD 7970 with 32 ROP, 32 of each cycle to complete the color processing and 128 Z / Stencil treatment, but because of the higher effective bandwidth, in the real world performance than the theoretical value of 50% faster as the Cayman ."
Impessive. So Tahiti's 32 ROPs ~ 48 Cayman ROPs.
That is a lie. i ONLY post mostly at my own forum (duh); once or twice a week here on average and maybe once a month at HardOCP.
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You're usually at OTHER sites at launches, attempting to drum up traffic to your own site. I can't think of any other site that does this forum-involved marketing. I understand why you do it, and I even appreciate it sometimes when you give the inside scoop, but you do this every launch... you aren't here "very rarely."
It needs to be the damn 22nd already. All the speculation is driving me nuts and the fervor is reading a feverish pitch now.
I swear red vs. green has more hatred in it than East vs. West did.
Are we expecting to see reviews become available right at midnight tonight?
Ok my jaw just dropped.
FAN OFF in idle states. :wub:
Pair this with HD3000 on Z68 chipset and you got yourself a quieter rig for 2D work! Now we just need 650-700W noiseless PSUs to run 2 of these in CF.
Ok my jaw just dropped.
FAN OFF in idle states. :wub:
Pair this with HD3000 on Z68 chipset and you got yourself a quieter rig for 2D work! Now we just need 650-700W noiseless PSUs to run 2 of these in CF. For people using 3 GPUs, this is like 100W in power savings from graphics cards alone.
That is a lie. i ONLY post mostly at my own forum (duh); once or twice a week here on average and maybe once a month at HardOCP. ...
That's it. And frankly i don't need to post here at all. This forum resembles a whiny AMD fan club. ...
That's it. And frankly i don't need to post here at all. This forum resembles a whiny AMD fan club.
It does make me almost regret not jumping on those seasonic fanless PSUs that went on sale a few weeks back.
The bottom line is, if AMD has a product that can ship and give ~30% better performance than their competitor, why in the world would they wait?
Ok my jaw just dropped.
FAN OFF in idle states. :wub:
Pair this with HD3000 on Z68 chipset and you got yourself a quieter rig for 2D work! Now we just need 650-700W noiseless PSUs to run 2 of these in CF.
"the entire card consumes less than three watts, fans will be completely closed, completely avoid noise nuisance."
For people using 3 GPUs, this is like 90-100W in idle power savings from graphics cards alone.
This is the coolest bit of news I've read yet regarding any upcoming GPU.
Seasonic Fanless 460W PSU on Newegg for $80 after MIR. That's probably the lowest price I've seen.
Obviously not strong enough for 2 HD7970, but sufficient for an overclocked 2600k + HD7970.
You guys know where to find me. There are very few of my friends left here. Eventually i simply won't have to time to post here at all.Don't stop posting just because of your post count. It's good to have varying points of view. Also, any member's post count doesn't make his/her posts less or more valuable. It's about the quality of the post that counts. Hopefully you'll have a review ready before a lot of other sites. :thumbsup:
Don't listen to the douchebags I think your an asset to our Anandtech VC&G community.That is a lie. i ONLY post mostly at my own forum (duh); once or twice a week here on average and maybe once a month at HardOCP.
And if you are looking at 35000 posts - that is over 11 years. i used to be a video moderator here and i posted regularly here. Do a search on my name and see how many topics i have posted in here over the past 3 years - not much.
That's it. And frankly i don't need to post here at all. This forum resembles a whiny AMD fan club.
Here's something none of you appear to know:
The HD 7970 launch goes live in in 3-1/2 hours
Obligatory:Ok my jaw just dropped.
FAN OFF in idle states. :wub:
Pair this with HD3000 on Z68 chipset and you got yourself a quieter rig for 2D work! Now we just need 650-700W noiseless PSUs to run 2 of these in CF.
"the entire card consumes less than three watts, fans will be completely closed, completely avoid noise nuisance."
For people using 3 GPUs, this is like 90-100W in idle power savings from graphics cards alone.
Don't listen to the douchebags I think your an asset to our Anandtech VC&G community.
AMD is shipping; I didn't say they weren't. And it's not cynical at all. It's common sense. If a chip can overclock like mad, then there is plenty of potential it has but it's current design or transistor use is holding it back because of how much more heat it generates as it is overclocked.
No one is forcing you to be here. If you really think this is a "whiny AMD fan club" then don't stick around. But I don't think this place is like that at all, in fact just look at the overwhelming condemnation of Bulldozer, for the most part I think people here call it like they see it.That's it. And frankly i don't need to post here at all. This forum resembles a whiny AMD fan club.
I thought it was fairly common knowledge when the NDA lifted? I could be wrong.Here's something none of you appear to know:
The HD 7970 launch goes live in in 3-1/2 hours
The AMD and Nvidia situations have been very different the last couple of generations. Fermi was clearly not ready, the performance/watt was terrible. AMD has adopted a strategy of "almost the best performance" and by doing so, puts the silicon more in the sweet spot as far as power/performance. Nvidia goes all out and pushes the transistor count to the limit on a given process, and gets the highest performance as a result. It's a different strategy, I expect the same thing to be true for the 7xxx series. On the Nvidia side, probably the same general strategy as with Fermi, although I believe TSMC will have a more mature process so as not to hamper Nvidia near as much (or maybe not at all) as with Fermi.AMD is shipping; I didn't say they weren't. And it's not cynical at all. It's common sense. If a chip can overclock like mad, then there is plenty of potential it has but it's current design or transistor use is holding it back because of how much more heat it generates as it is overclocked. Nvidia did the exact same thing with the gtx480 and gtx460 because it made sense to release it as it was in April (and June) instead of waiting until December and January for the better functioning Fermi.
Seasonic Fanless 460W PSU on Newegg for $80 after MIR. That's probably the lowest price I've seen.
Obviously not strong enough for 2 HD7970, but sufficient for an overclocked 2600k + HD7970.
Then people read it, and comment its nothing but negative sping from Appopin in it, and based on his own speculation.Unlike CharLIE bitter hatred of Nvidia, i did not say an unkind word about AMD or their HD 7970 in my preview article.
Then we get you calling people Douchbages. Which isnt helping the situation.As to my posting "a lot" here. i posted in SIX (6) threads in video in the past month (30 days). i guess that is way too much for you Radeon guys.
This forum resembles a whiny AMD fan club.
Say Hi to Rollo for us...hope he has proof read(and approved) your new review or NV HQ may be miffed....:whiste:That's it. And frankly i don't need to post here at all. This forum resembles a whiny AMD fan club.