Nvidia, ATI, can we have smaller GPUs please???

[Cartho]

It is getting silly.
If they somehow managed to go to a 65nm process for video cards, like they have done with CPUs recently, will it make the cards shorter?
If so, PLEASE DO IT GUYS!

these things are just getting ridiculous...

 

[sunlitsix]

a smaller die process wouldnt necessarily mean the card can be shorter. there are other factors which can effect the length of the card, such as amount of ram used etc

 

[Cartho]

ugh
with the speed at which technology is advancing, I am sure we can come up with a smaller video card.....

 

[pinkaardvark]

Consumer demand seems to be driving it that way unfortunately. I'd love both companies to take a break from the war and focus on producing smaller more efficient chips rather than the current 600W psu requirement monsters that are coming out just now. Not so long ago a 600W psu was massive overkill, but now it's almost base spec with psu's upto 1KW which is effectively the same as a single bar on an electric fire

 

[Cartho]

Yep
A change in focus is definately what is needed....

 

[Lunatic Dreyfus]

I can remember looking at pics of the mythical Voodoo 5 6000 a few years back and laughing at the sheer stupidity of such a large card. And then yesterday I saw the pictures of the R600...

Personally I find that even my x800XT with it's after market Iceberq 6 is a bit of handful. It gets in the way of the Northbridge on my Neo 2 Platinum mobo, and renders two of my PCI slots unusable. Roll on integrated CPU/GPU processors I say, and begone with all this clunky Graphics card nonsense.

(ATI Fanboy by the way)