Nvidia kills GTX285, GTX275, GTX260, abandons the mid and high end market

SoulSeeker205 · October 18th, 2009, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by 2monsters

Fermi is what is going on with Nvidia!
Fermi's folding ability...

"I've managed to run 200 instances of F@H GPU and 4 CPU (i7 processor HT off). The 7th card is not fully loaded. This could also be an issue with EVGA X58 mobo.
I use together two Silverstone Strider PSU's 1500W each that is probably too much but
now I experiment with overclocking (cards are factory unlocked). Max power consumption
I've noticed was 2400W.
The whole system is cooled by my own construction of liquid CO2 which is heavy an inconvenient and I have to supply a new cylinder every 5 days.
That's It. I wish everybody to improve your folding speed using GT300 soon!"

for the average Joe Blow this ain't going to happen doesn't seem cost effective to me. changing a CO2 cartridge for overclocking every 5 days. much less the Power bill. Green is out here.

ShyguyXPC · October 18th, 2009, 05:31 PM

200 instances of the GPU client? Wha, Huh?

Nevermind I see they just quoted something in the link.

I was wondering WTF, when I went back and read Souls past posts, and was only a year ago built their first PC and was buying it piece by piece, found it odd to be building some sort of CO2/LN2 cooling system, etc.

2monsters · October 18th, 2009, 05:58 PM

That link from evga forums may or may not be true.
For now we will have to wait and see what Nvidia brings to the table.

This reminds me of when ATI bottomed out going from the 2900 series to the 3800 series. Everybody was jumping on the Nvidia ship.Nvidia was dominating going from the 7000 series to the 8000 series, kinda like ATI with the 4000 to 5000 series at the present. Seems like dejavu.

cksboy15 · October 24th, 2009, 06:25 PM

We found out at work the nvidia accidently shipped a bad group of gpu's to manufacturers so Charlie probably got wind of that and blew it out of proportion like he always does.

We get corporate news so we can prepare for a lot of "return to sender" stamps on boxes so we know which truck to put the boxes on. Probably one of the best benefits of the job.