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Do GFX cards have to be so big?

^^^^
that about sums it up.

People were panicking when the 5870 came out because they may not fit in their cases, probably be riots when the next lot comes out.
 
I'm getting abit miffed tbh


I mean I have the brain of My PC in i7 920 running at low vcore at 4ghz 59c full load and

yet a GFX card has to be the same size as a bus?

You know what i think?


I think that GFX cards don't need to be so big.

But its a con to make people believe their 600 quid is going somewhere.

As in the bigger the faster...so the consumer feels they are getting something for their money.
 
easyrider said:
I'm getting abit miffed tbh


I mean I have the brain of My PC in i7 920 running at low vcore at 4ghz 59c full load and

yet a GFX card has to be the same size as a bus?

You know what i think?


I think that GFX cards don't need to be so big.

But its a con to make people believe their 600 quid is going somewhere.

As in the bigger the faster...so the consumer feels they are getting something for their money.
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Why is there such a lack of common sense in the world.

The CPU itself, is just like the core, in the socket, in the middle of your GPU, its about an inch square, its not far off the size of the CPU. The CPU does NOTHING on its own, you can't fit it in a PCI-E slot, it has to have a mobo to work with it, with traces to the memory, various controllers, power circuitry, ports, etc, etc.

Your CPU uses a PCB with maybe, what 3-4 times the surface area with which to do its job, a GPU has all that, plus the heatsink, in a package far smaller. A 5870 uses far more power than a CPU under full load, has infinately higher bandwidth, more complex power circuitry.

The fact that GPU's are in such a small package, is quite outstanding, the fact that people for some reason think GPU's should be as big is NIC's, is just completely baffling to me, its the single most powerful piece of equipment in anyones computer, and is really very very small considering.



Personally I'd complain about the design standards and the quality of cases.

You open up a computer and see how much completely wasted space there is, for better heatsinks, bigger/quieter fans and reducing the size of a case. If you located hard drives and dvd/bluray vertically on the side of a case, you could have a much shorter case, and without hard drive cages at the front, have a crapload of spare space for long PCI-e cards, gpu ones aswell as others.

Of course, you could just buy a huge case, which are simply far easier to build tidy quiet computers in anyway, and then never have to worry about GPU length.

Anyway, my vote is the biggest cards possible that allow the best GPU's to perform to their highest ability, rather than stunted low profile low end gpu's, so I have lots of extra space in my computer.
 
You have to do it clumsily the first time. The cutting edge pays in size, heat, cost, bugs...

Then a couple of generations later you get kit like the latest low power low profiles which have the performance of the better full size cards from a few years back.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Why is there such a lack of common sense in the world.

The CPU itself, is just like the core, in the socket, in the middle of your GPU, its about an inch square, its not far off the size of the CPU. The CPU does NOTHING on its own, you can't fit it in a PCI-E slot, it has to have a mobo to work with it, with traces to the memory, various controllers, power circuitry, ports, etc, etc.

Your CPU uses a PCB with maybe, what 3-4 times the surface area with which to do its job, a GPU has all that, plus the heatsink, in a package far smaller. A 5870 uses far more power than a CPU under full load, has infinately higher bandwidth, more complex power circuitry.

The fact that GPU's are in such a small package, is quite outstanding, the fact that people for some reason think GPU's should be as big is NIC's, is just completely baffling to me, its the single most powerful piece of equipment in anyones computer, and is really very very small considering.



Personally I'd complain about the design standards and the quality of cases.

You open up a computer and see how much completely wasted space there is, for better heatsinks, bigger/quieter fans and reducing the size of a case. If you located hard drives and dvd/bluray vertically on the side of a case, you could have a much shorter case, and without hard drive cages at the front, have a crapload of spare space for long PCI-e cards, gpu ones aswell as others.

Of course, you could just buy a huge case, which are simply far easier to build tidy quiet computers in anyway, and then never have to worry about GPU length.

Anyway, my vote is the biggest cards possible that allow the best GPU's to perform to their highest ability, rather than stunted low profile low end gpu's, so I have lots of extra space in my computer.
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^ this guy knows :)
 
What if they brought out "gaming mobos" that were twice as big and cost £500 with a GPU socket the same size as a CPU, with watercooling the only option?

Would anyone buy one? :D
 
The 5 series are definately too big IMO.

Looking at a naked board, the gaps between components are insanely big, and I can't see a reason for it :\
 
gfx cards are the opposite to everything else, they get smaller, while gfx cards get bigger, imagine if everything else was like that as well, we'd have mobile phones the size of ******* telephone boxes by now, you'd have to carry them about in the backs of ******* pick-ups, and Tv's, you wouldn't be able to get one through yer front door, you'ld have to take yer bloody roof off to lower them in by crane, and then you wouldn't get yer roofs back on, as the Tv's would be taller than yer ******* house :D

Can't wait to see the 6 series, i bet them ***** are gona be about 15ft long, and have octa slot coolers, im only 37 now, i bet by the time im 50, gfx cards will be as big as the ******* titanic :p
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
gfx cards are the opposite to everything else, they get smaller, while gfx cards get bigger, imagine if everything else was like that as well, we'd have mobile phones the size of ******* telephone boxes by now, you'd have to carry them about in the backs of ******* pick-ups, and Tv's, you wouldn't be able to get one through yer front door, you'ld have to take yer bloody roof off to lower them in by crane, and then you wouldn't get yer roofs back on, as the Tv's would be taller than yer ******* house :D

Can't wait to see the 6 series, i bet them ***** are gona be about 15ft long, and have octa slot coolers, im only 37 now, i bet by the time im 50, gfx cards will be as big as the ******* titanic :p
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:D
 
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