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G80 specs finally confirmed! NOT old news!

I forgot about evga's step up program how does this work?

Say i buy a 7950 gx2 now and then in 60 days the new cards are available do they have a specific value they apply to the old card or is it done on the retail price you paid instore?

Seems like a good way to get through the next month of waiting
 
jimmyjimmyo said:
I forgot about evga's step up program how does this work?

Say i buy a 7950 gx2 now and then in 60 days the new cards are available do they have a specific value they apply to the old card or is it done on the retail price you paid instore?

Seems like a good way to get through the next month of waiting
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I think you just pay the difference of what you paid retail for the original card.

So say the G80 is £450 and I paid 375 for my GX2 then the upgrade will cost me £75 for the G80 :)
 
Q: How much is Step-Up?
A: The Step-Up™ Program is free; you are required to pay the difference between your original invoice price, less any applicable rebates, and the price of the new card, plus any applicable tax and shipping. The program itself has no cost associated with it.

Example:

EVGA e-GeForceFX 5700Ultra $219.99
Retail Priced e-GeForceFX 5200* -$99.99

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Total $120.00
+ Tax & Shipping

*Original invoice price less any applicable rebate

:D
 
easyrider said:
I have just enough days left to get one in time for early Novenber launch.
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Don't forget you can jump from one queue to another. If your running out of time register the step up to a busy queue, if your time expires you can still change queue if your not at the front, that make sense?

Judging from the power comments here, its 50W more than the GX2, what's that 190W or so? Not so bad, but it must be two SLi connectors as one is only rated to 150W with PCI-e V1. They're now recommending 800W for SLi, OMG.
 
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fornowagain said:
Don't forget you can jump from one queue to another. If your running out of time register the step up to a busy queue, if your time expires you can still change queue if your not at the front, that make sense?

Judging from the power comments here, its 50W more than the GX2, what's that 190W or so? Not so bad. They're now recommending 800W for SLi, OMG.
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How do I know what cue I'm in?

added you to msn
 
Loadsamoney will be along in a minute to tell everyone to stop getting excited, buy a GX2 and that the G80's only advantage is DX10 support and won't be worth having for another year anyway... :rolleyes:

Personaly my PC is due replacing so I've been holding out to see where all this new tech is leading. It's going to cost an arm and a leg but I'm starting to get that G80/Kenstfield feeling :)

The only thing we're missing is some hard info on the ATI offering....
 
Nicked this from Serenity at beyond3d
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8800GTX
575MHz Core Clock
900MHz Mem Clock
768MB GDDR3 memory
384-bit memory interface (86GB/s)
128 unified shaders clocked at 1350 MHz
38.4 billion pixels per second theoretical texture fill-rate
450W PSU Recommended
Hard launch in second week of November

8800GTS
500MHz Core Clock
900MHz Mem Clock
640MB GDDR3 memory
320-bit memory interface (64GB/s)
96 unified shaders clocked at 1200 MHz
?? billion pixels per second theoretical texture fill-rate
400W PSU Recommended
Hard launch in second week of November
 
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Comment quote from DailyTech:
Yes, and Winter's almost here

This is great news. For $300, I can buy a great 1300watt psu and then spend the amount of money I would on a new heating system on these cards in SLI mode. I'm hoping they have a Quad Configuration as well because I need to exhaust the entire side of the case directly into my AC Ducts and I need the extra fan power to push it upstairs, and I want it to be as warm and toasty as possible. I may just have to put all silent heat sinks and setup a warning monitory system to generate EVEN MORE HEAT and then use an external exhaust fan to whiff it up into the house.

I am very happy that such technology can provide true comfort for the family room in the upstairs where we will stream video to for the family visits.
In the basement, where this will be, I may have to wear shorts to keep from sweating too much, but it will be worth it.

The Pentium 4 Extreme Edition doesn't, by itself, generate the amount of heat to warm more than an entire basement, but Intel Technology together with Nvidia push the Thermal Envelope to new heights, and I thank them, and my cat thanks the.
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This guy makes more sense than Nvidia G80!
 
manoz said:
I thought GDD3 RAM was old/current generation? ATi previewed GDDR4 RAM in the x1950xtx to pave the way for R600, thought nvidia would go and implement GDDR4 in their G80 aswell. Is this a loss to nvidia or is there not that much of a significent jump to GDDR4?
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They're put the bus width up, what, 50%? So no need to put up the cost even more and risk supply issues for faster memory it doesn't need? I'd think GDDR4 support is built in and they'll save that for a later refresh.
 
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What's all this, onboard physics for the G80?

With the release of the G80, NVIDIA will also release a new engine dubbed Quantum physics engine. Quantum Effects Technology is similar (at least in spirit) to NVIDIA's PureVideo Technology -- a dedicated layer on the GPU for physics calculations. A few documents alluding to this new engine appeared on public FTP mirrors late last week.

Quantum utilizes some of the shaders from NVIDIA's G80 processor specifically for physics calculations.
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Athanor said:
Loadsamoney will be along in a minute to tell everyone to stop getting excited, buy a GX2 and that the G80's only advantage is DX10 support and won't be worth having for another year anyway... :rolleyes:
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Thats where your wrong, well your right about DX10, but if you have a low end DX9 card now, then why not grab one of these, as it will be a cracking upgrade, but if you have the high end cards like the GX2's etc... already, and they are already cutting through games (which they will be) then there is no need as your GX2 will last well over a year anyway, so you can miss these out, and you wont miss out anything DX10 wise, as thats not worth having for about a year+ as said, so you can get the much better/faster DX10 card then, unless your doing the easyrider way and using the step-up programme, as its definately worth it that way even if you have a high end card already, as as easy says its probably gona cost him about £75, now that for a G80 is steal. :cool:
 
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manoz said:
I wana see those G80 phsyics whoop Ageia at their own benchmark ;)
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exactly, who the hell do agiea think that they are? they physics with an X on the end and calim to make super powerfull physics cards?? they need the lashing that they deserve. hope all the company workers go bankrup and end up on the streets for even thinking of such a crap product.
 
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