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GeForce GTX 480 gets dismantled in detailed pictures

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:21 am
by Apoptosis
Thought this was interesting:
Enthusiastic Nvidia fans are probably on their toes now waiting for the GF100 launch and the shipping of the the first DirectX 11 GeForce family products. Unfortunately, there's no way to speed thing up, only to easy the wait with more pictures of the upcoming cards.

Seen below is the top of the tops GeForce GTX 480 while being stripped of its cooling system for the sake of seeing how things work 'under the hood'. This operation provides a good look at the card's cooler and the front and back of the PCB housing the large, hot 40nm GF100 GPU with 480 CUDA Cores.

The GeForce GTX 480 is set to be introduced on Friday night (it's not like anyone has anything better to do apparently) and come with a recommended price tag of $499.
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Re: GeForce GTX 480 gets dismantled in detailed pictures

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:49 pm
by trucz
pretty nice design for nvidia.

Re: GeForce GTX 480 gets dismantled in detailed pictures

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:10 pm
by SAMSAMHA
looks like nvidia spend quite a lot of resource on the cooling. I guess gtx 480 would be quite a hot card. man, just a few hours to go.

Re: GeForce GTX 480 gets dismantled in detailed pictures

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:28 pm
by loneknives

Re: GeForce GTX 480 gets dismantled in detailed pictures

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:16 pm
by areos
Wow. Those temps seem pretty high. I wonder what the memory temps will be?

Re: GeForce GTX 480 gets dismantled in detailed pictures

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:17 pm
by djpinc19
i am not impressed by the GF100 at all...thank goodness for DX 9 compatibility, i wasnt impressed by the Evergreen family either...

just waiting for multi-monitor to mature a bit more and the monitors to have thinner bezels

Re: GeForce GTX 480 gets dismantled in detailed pictures

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:47 pm
by thehybridfrog
Fermi is hot, but not by much. I think a lot of people are witch hunting in terms of "95C is too hot etc..."

If it is within the engineered specs I don't see why any gamer or enthusiast would be more knowledgeable about nVidia hardware life than their paid engineers.