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LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Bat wrote:

(Water-cooled R600... eat your heart out, Levi. )

Five GPM (gallon per minute) flow rate, 3 120mm fans on the radiator, custom water blocks...my heart is just fine.


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Ok yeah the 5GPM number I pulled out of my ass but ya get the point...

Open systems > Closed systems

I'm sure your 7800 SLI will be ever so happy rendering 2560x1600 GoW PC patched to DX10 for even more pr3tty compared to this.

(Oh wait; 7800s don't do DX10...)


...and when did you become incapable of changing a li'l plumbing and integrating an Asetek waterblock into your present setup?

"[s]California[/s] R600 here I come..."


ed. sp.

Last edited by Bat (2007-02-10 2:45 pm)

It's pretty much definitive. One easy-to-see pic here.

R600XTX is no longer a mystery. Spies managed to snap a picture of the R600XTX, the top of the OEM line. The card is among the biggest things that we ever seen in our lives and has a massive four heat pipe powered cooler.

It comes with 1024MB of 512Mbit memory. We are of course talking about GDDR4 memory that works at over 2000MHz. We don't have the final clock speeds ATI will beusing - at least not yet. Yes, that confirms our story that R600 supports a 512Mbit controller and memory. You can read all about that here as we brought you that one back in October last year.

Just look at the that cooler, it is massive and, believe it or not, the card is 12.4 inches long. It is a bit smaller than the biggest one of all time, that on the Geforce 7900 GX2.

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Compared to the Geforce 8800 GTX the R600 XTX is huge. The Geforce 8800 GTX is nine inches or about 23 cm long. The card comes with two power connectors. We have already seen one 2x3 pin, while this card will introduce the new one 2x4 pins. The new connector will come with new PSUs. The card takes two slots in your motherboard and in most cases, there will be one more version 9.5 inches that will be for retail sales.

The big R600XTX card codenamed Dragons Head is the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and SIs (System Integretor) card only. The card should be launched in March and will be available at the same month but rather late march than early. µ

What Fudo's a mite unclear about is if this is just for OEM/system integrators, with a physically smaller [9.5" long] retail version- this is huge.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37581

Retail vs. OEM clarified.

R600XTX Dragonshead 2 spotted
Small and made for retail

By Fuad Abazovic: Tuesday 13 February 2007, 12:00

WE CAME ACROSS a rendered image of ATI's upcoming card codenamed Dragonshead 2. This card is 9.5 inches (24 centimetres) long and this is the one that will make it into retail. We wrote about the card here. This is the OEM-only version.

To our surprise, Dragon's Head 2, a much smaller card should have the same clock speed as the massive 12.4 inch, full-length card. It also comes with 1024MB GDDR4 memory.

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The card supports Vivo and comes with Dual DVI. It has a dual-slot heatsink and consumes 240W of power, some 30W less than the big mamma. It has two 2x3 standard PCIe connectors the same two you can see on the G80, Geforce 8800 GTX cards. It looks more like graphic cards we're used to seeing.

The good news is that many power supply units already have these 2x3 pin connectors. The cards based on this design should also be available late March. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37588