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nice xbox 2 demo running on that LCD screen ..lol x800 in new xbox2 ??

It is so strange that this board only has one power connector.

I don't find it odd. I fully expected it. ATI (or should I say TSMC) has been working with low-k insulator (on the interconnect layers), so the ATI boards run much cooler(which means lower power consumption) than their nVidia counterparts. So very simple.

That big heatsink isn't really so big - it looks about 9800XT sized. Heat production is a function of transistor count and voltage as well as frequency, too, so the core frequency might not be as high as you think - the large R420 core has a lot of transistors on it. I expect the core frequency to be pretty good, though.

Also, GDDR3 operates at a lower voltage than DDR or GDDR2, so it's probably pretty darn fast memory that simply doesn't get too hot.

It's good to see ATI is ahead of the game when it comes to the number of power connectors required - it looks as though I could put one of those in my present machine quite easily, even if it needs a power rail to itself. NV40's requirements or *two* dedicated power rails are just plain silly by comparison.

Well, I certainly think the card will do well. Whether it beats NVidia's offerings or not remains to be seen; however the power requirements are certainly much more tolerable. I believe there was some speculation about that photo, and that it was actually inside a shuttle SFF system.

That is certainly good news for lanning! :)

it realy freaken awsome and it has realy cool detial to the card

Its good if its only one powerconnector.. i think nvidia made a mistake making the card this power hungry.. but maybe it will work fine with a 400W psu, hard to say but i dont think i have cables free for that card, and i guess an adapter to get more molex cables isnt that good.

It will be interessting to see if this card is better than the Nvidia one, but why did ATi leave out shaders v3.0 ??

Anyway the retail cards will pherhaps get some better looking graphic on the actual card, this lizard thing just looks silly.

If it was a pre-production card then why does it have decoration on it?

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Not sure if they really have for sale!?

You fucking nerds. Go masturbate to porn instead of computers.