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Nvidia GF100 pulls 280W and is unmanufacturable

semiaccrate is a support group for people with an irrational fear of nvidia.

instead of helping them, however, charlie whips them up into a frenzy by pointing out some of the stupid stuff nv has done. like renaming cards and faking board demos.

he's kind of turned nv bashing into a religion over there.
 
I know people complain about NV fanboys but Charlie is just as bad. It's so pathetic. Just use the best tool for the job, whatever that might be.
 
Could be true, lack of specs from NV and dodgy release dates all add up to trouble in camp Nvidia. The guy has got a number of things correct in the past so he is not a complete muppet.
 
Duran said:
yeah right we believe you:rolleyes:

we have our own mini version of charlie here in ocuk with the name "drunkenmaster".
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fine if you don't but personally i've not been on that site before or know about him. It was info on Fermi i was looking for and not to post something to shoot down the green team.

but it's not supprising what is being reported/made up etc due to the lack of information from Nvidia themselves.

NDA is lifted, at the very least they could give us actual card figures etc etc
 
If you can read around the vile towards Nvidia he does actually make a number of good points.

Tesselation on the Fermi uses up shaders so if the game has heavy tesselation going as well as major graphics then framerates will suffer and the ideal maximum 6 x faster than a 5870 at tessellation will no longer be true.

I also think as well that is why Nvidia only released a small part of the heaven becnhmark as that was the most heavily tesselated area and would show the Fermi off in the best light.

I also agree that 512SP versions may be as rare as hen's teeth and very expensive.

If Charlie is right about the "normal" shader clock speed of most cores being 1200Mhz then the 448SP Fermi with 1200Mhz shader will be a long way short of the 512SP 1400Mhz or even 1600Mhz shader speeds that you will see in reviews.
 
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There is truth I'm sure to much of what he says, but the problem is he's relentlessly one-sided.

Who here thinks ATI have never pulled a single dishonest stunt?

Charlie must spend hours of his time looking for ways to make nv look bad. It's sad, really. Right now I'm willing nv to make a come back, even tho I do fear that Fermi isn't going to be the success it needs to be.

So, whilst you can't write off Charlie entirely, do realise that he has made this into a personal crusade, and you have to make a judgement yourself as to what is significant and likely to be true, and what can be discarded.
 
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