Fermi spotted in the wild

Greebo · 18 Nov 2009 at 19:20

Fenris said:
Read the article.

I have but I think it loks more like two 8 pin connectors despite what the article says.

N19h7m4r3 · 18 Nov 2009 at 20:02

Has no one noticed the pc in the top with and old Audigy 2 sound card, it has no cables connected to the sound card and you can clearly see the end part of a GPU with its fan spinning.

Along with the cables trailing to behind the monitor.

NickK · 18 Nov 2009 at 20:21

Nightmare, I think that's what most of the posts have eluded to in one way or another.

tommythetim · 18 Nov 2009 at 20:34

Whether the fans spinning or not, or whether there's another pc running uniengine or not. On the day AMD release the worlds fastest GPU, Nvidia release a controversial picture! Pretty embarrassing imo.

Cesar67 · 18 Nov 2009 at 21:50

ATI are ahead by miles... Not great for the consumer.

Lightnix · 18 Nov 2009 at 21:57

Cesar67 said:
ATI are ahead by miles... Not great for the consumer.

I agree, it's not really good for us if anyone is clearly leading. It's best when the companies are competing at their fiercest - Let's just hope Fermi puts up a good fight when it finally rolls around the corner so that we can enjoy a relatively inexpensive market.

Marine Iguana · 18 Nov 2009 at 21:58

Cannot wait, Been waiting so long for these to be released i can almost smell it.

Cesar67 · 18 Nov 2009 at 22:21

Lightnix said:
I agree, it's not really good for us if anyone is clearly leading. It's best when the companies are competing at their fiercest - Let's just hope Fermi puts up a good fight when it finally rolls around the corner so that we can enjoy a relatively inexpensive market.

I'm not an expert by any means but, I don't see much sustained competition coming for a long time.

Especially since i want to upgrade as soon as

fornowagain · 18 Nov 2009 at 22:24

chaparral said:
Is that two 8 pin PCI-E connections ???

Nah.

rhys216 · 18 Nov 2009 at 23:47

Looks fake to me, from looking at a few threads over at XS.

Martini1991 · 18 Nov 2009 at 23:56

Actually, why the hell can you see through it?

Tom|Nbk · 19 Nov 2009 at 00:03

Clearly they've actually got that monitor hooked up to a pair of 5870's

Electronic Dave · 19 Nov 2009 at 00:07

Martini1991 said:
Actually, why the hell can you see through it?

Its actually a reflection - nVidia cards from EVGA for example tend to have a nice gloss black plastic covering

unless of course its the new nVidia 'Transparent' range...cards that don't really exist

Anyway with the whole rumoured TSMC yield problems for ATI and nVidia - their latest and greatest cards maybe hard to get hold of...even in few months time? What with the holiday period too.

hyperst · 19 Nov 2009 at 01:51

its clearly not dx11 either (i think :confused:

)

drunkenmaster · 19 Nov 2009 at 02:16

Electronic Dave said:
Its actually a reflection - nVidia cards from EVGA for example tend to have a nice gloss black plastic covering unless of course its the new nVidia 'Transparent' range...cards that don't really exist

Anyway with the whole rumoured TSMC yield problems for ATI and nVidia - their latest and greatest cards maybe hard to get hold of...even in few months time? What with the holiday period too.

I've come up with a nice new conspiracy theory, there is no shortage at TSMC, the failed product line was a smoke screen to fool ATi into thinking 20k 5870 chips were chucked out. Really Nvidia paid them to do this, took the cards and are going to launch them as Fermi's

Seriously though, it sounds like it could take a while for TSMC to get some replacement equipment, and frankly no one in the industry seems to know how they could miss such a severe problem for weeks and not find the fault till loads of waifers were put through and wasted. TSMC have smegged almost everything up, at the moment I'm simply crossing my fingers that they don't make the same mistake on any of their other equipment, and don't make any other screw ups.

I've got me a nice close to launch £195 5850, but will most likely buy a 5970 when someone starts selling them for £400 or less, though thats not likely to happen that soon.

Of course, lately my AMD stock has done great so I've made about £4k in the past couple months(thanks Intel and Nvidia

), so I could just buy one at £500 and call it an investment ¬_¬

fornowagain · 19 Nov 2009 at 04:03

Martini1991 said:
Actually, why the hell can you see through it?

Think back the hacked/glued mock up Fermi. Could well be the same pcb with holes and some of the shell as well if you look at it.

mel d · 19 Nov 2009 at 08:55

why cant nvidia say what they are doing ?

Martini1991 · 19 Nov 2009 at 09:45

Look at the reflection.. Why the hell is there two WHITE lanes? It should be one white one blue.

Greebo · 19 Nov 2009 at 09:48

Martini1991 said:
Look at the reflection.. Why the hell is there two WHITE lanes? It should be one white one blue.

oops. Missed that. You're right. It's looking more and more like a photoshop then............

BubbySoup · 19 Nov 2009 at 09:58

The blue lane is there. Looks like there is some kind of bezel running along the bottom edge of the cooler, you can see the blue line of the lane reflected (and distorted) in it.