A Crate at TechPowerUp's Doorstep

[Dave65]

Can't wait to see some benchmarks on this puppy.

 

[jaredpace]

Can't wait to see some benchmarks on this puppy.

 

[LaDigital]

Price US $999 and no backplate?

Price $999 and no backplate wtf?

But good to see the nice glowing logo on top, me likey

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Now we know why the card is 999.99 ... they spent all their money on over the top packaging and SAME day shipping ... you know how much Same day shipping cost.

Hell, they might need too up the price to 1499.99 if they keep doing stuff like this.

nah the 10 are done and delivered now

 

[Mussels]

someone knows where w1zz lives! his security is weaker than we thought!



internet trolls must now locate his premises so we can steal this card.

 

[Akrian]

OMG OMG OMG looks sooo sexy...wonder if they are going to make fullcovers for THAT thing.
Also wonder if it actually a good overclocker as Nvidia was mentioning.
Also wondering if 7990 will be just as sexy
*mind explosion*

Lol my 7970 triple-corss doesnt look all that awesome anymore , thankfully I have a 4th card lying under the bench desk...time to water it up soon ( well and swap one of the cards with low ASIC that pulls my system down, preventing healthy oc, can't seem to get stable past 1200/1600 at 1.225v ( 1.207 real))


P.S. I'm not sure that it's 999$...maybe it's an error ? maybe its .... 666$ >

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Cant wait for review! XD

 

[fullinfusion]

And where is AMD with there 7990? Hahaha see what happens when ya get caught taking a nap AMD!

Now let the pissn match begin

 

[Googoo24]

AMD doesn't appear to care, or they're perfecting the 7990 (I say this with a grain of salt), since it has apparently been pushed back.

Meh, either card is likely to be way too expensive for my peasant budget.

 

[fullinfusion]

AMD doesn't appear to care, or they're perfecting the 7990 (I say this with a grain of salt), since it has apparently been pushed back.

Meh, either card is likely to be way too expensive for my peasant budget.

-adds to your grain of salt-

$800 dollar card I can absorb but a $grand! fuck that! excuse ma french

 

[Absolution]

LOL nice crate, lucky guys!

I wonder if all the review sites got this package or only techpower up

 

[entropy13]

I wonder if all the review sites got this package or only techpower up

All major review sites got the crates.

 

[NHKS]

Thanks for the article on the crate bta!
TPU should start video reviews/previews too IMO!

 

[Mussels]

Thanks for the article on the crate bta!
TPU should start video reviews/previews too IMO!

Video reviews are terrible, and a waste of time. its been proven people remember less from a video than they do from text (or we'd learn from videos at school, and not text books) not to mention the ease of comparison between new and old reviews.


video reviews are a complete waste of time.

 

[NHKS]

video reviews are a complete waste of time.

did we have a poll on this finding?

I do like videos to supplement text reviews.. not that I want videos to 'replace' text reviews..
previews like this or even tech demos can be an interesting supplement to articles..

that's my personal opinion anyways(i am not demanding it! )

 

[btarunr]

We're too lazy for video reviews. We'd like our audience to read. The consequence of not reading is often typing out a lengthy comment question which is often already answered in the text.

 

[fullinfusion]

Video reviews are terrible, and a waste of time. its been proven people remember less from a video than they do from text (or we'd learn from videos at school, and not text books) not to mention the ease of comparison between new and old reviews.


video reviews are a complete waste of time.

Says Who? You!

Agree

 

[Mussels]

Says Who? You!

Agree

i've read quite a few studies on memory, and tricks to help people remember things better. plain text is pretty much the best way there is - for circumstantial evidence, look how traditional learning, and most modern communication is done.

books, text message, email, online text only websites.


if you want to know the phone number for your local KFC, you dont want to sit through a 20 minute video looking for the number - you want it written plainly on your screen.

 

[fullinfusion]

i've read quite a few studies on memory, and tricks to help people remember things better. plain text is pretty much the best way there is - for circumstantial evidence, look how traditional learning, and most modern communication is done.

books, text message, email, online text only websites.


if you want to know the phone number for your local KFC, you dont want to sit through a 20 minute video looking for the number - you want it written plainly on your screen.

Na I dont need to look for my local number to KFC, I speak to Siri and she tells me what KFC'S number is moohahahahahah
I eat.
I consume Chicken ahahahahahahahah crispy chicken

 

[mauriek]

Nvidia really teach their marketing department very well..

I will find good review elsewhere if TPU start using Video Review..i hate watching 2 different color progress bar racing together and what they call those annoying little twisting circle in the center of video? seriously i love read and take my time to absorb the review and carefully examine the performance number.

 

[fullinfusion]

Nvidia really teach their marketing department very well..

I will find good review elsewhere if TPU start using Video Review..i hate watching 2 different color progress bar racing together and what they call those annoying little twisting circle in the center of video? seriously i love read and take my time to absorb the review and carefully examine the performance number.

Oh well you one of few mate... Best of luck to ya

 

[Hayder_Master]

http://nl.hardware.info/productinfo...F00,00FF00,00FF00,0000FF,0000FF,0000FF,0000FF
http://www.sweclockers.com/image/diagram/2875?k=532f243c1f0a96049ea68927d8c72348

that's cuz high resolutions, advantage for high memory size for sue, if they try the GTX680 4GB version it will kill 7970.

 

[Akrian]

that's cuz high resolutions, advantage for high memory size for sue, if they try the GTX680 4GB version it will kill 7970.

Exactly the point =) yet Nvidia sells 2gb by default and prices in stores atm are higher then for ref. 7970 ( in many countries around the world, excluding U.S.). Begs the question why the cheapened-out on more memory, if their chip is less expensive the amd's to produce ? ( yeah yeah, aside from "profit", "profit", "profit" scheme)

 

[Prima.Vera]

From those charts the conclusion is that AMD Cross scales a lot better than nvidia's SLI. So this could mean that also 7990 could be faster than 690...hmmmm. Interesting.

 

[Akrian]

From those charts the conclusion is that AMD Cross scales a lot better than nvidia's SLI. So this could mean that also 7990 could be faster than 690...hmmmm. Interesting.

You are forgetting to add "when it works".

My current triplefire fails misirably in Skyrim and New vegas, when according to afterburner the gpu 3 is just sleeping, and gpu's 1 and 2 are going all over the place from 0% usage ( on both) to 70% usage on both, each location seems to trigger something in the driver that begins this crazy cycle.

Offtopic: Oh and I get artifacts on the screen sometimes in skyrim, thought that might be the issue with the overclock -> but nope, same on default settings.
I saw similar problem in Heaven, when you get the dragon flight-around during sunset, break texture lines, both on OC and default. Strange problem is -> doesnt happen in 3dmark 2011 on any settings, doesnt happen in BF3/Metro 2033/ Crysis 2 on any settings. Granted I didn't do a clean install of windows after my nvidia cards....cause I'm lazzy, and that might be the case, but still annyoing.