HURRAY: Nvidia 600 series not just Fermi!! (Kepler)

[TheBluePill]

shineyyy!!! is there a preferred company to purchase from when it comes to desktop GPU's? i notice that a GPU can be sold from many different companies. i think i'm about to start piecing my desktop together right now. i didn't expect to see the 680's already. any recommendations on a nice motherboard that will be able to accept SLI 680's and the newest generation of CPU's?

Desktop Cards come in 2 Flavors, Reference and OC.

Each manufacturers will usually release a reference spec'd card out of the gate. Many others will follow with the OC version later.

Asus, MSI, Zotac, EVGA, PNY, Gigabyte.. Etc.. all make great Cards. I usually find one with the highest factory Clocks and buy it. (I have a Zotac AMP! edition GTX270 in my old desktop for example).

[Cloudfire]

You can't tell me you wouldn't pay a little extra for this:

Rambus - XDR2 Memory vs. GDDR5

I totally would , but most people wouldn`t. Too little margin and too little user base that is interested to pay a premium for it to make that a profit for Nvidia/AMD.
Its the same as IPS displays and expensive aluminum/titanium alloy (ok I made the titanium up but it would have been awesome lol)

[houstoned]

Desktop Cards come in 2 Flavors, Reference and OC.

Each manufacturers will usually release a reference spec'd card out of the gate. Many others will follow with the OC version later.

Asus, MSI, Zotac, EVGA, PNY, Gigabyte.. Etc.. all make great Cards. I usually find one with the highest factory Clocks and buy it. (I have a Zotac AMP! edition GTX270 in my old desktop for example).

thanks. i've been out of the desktop loop for so long, all of those companies are confusing lol. sometimes i wonder why there's so many different versions of the same card.

to my understanding, those factory OC'd GPU's are a "mild" OC, correct? do u think i'd be ok to go with "reference spec'd" cards since i'll be going SLI, or would the OC'd ones be better? i've owned many mid-top tiered GPU's, but i've never actually tried my hand at OC'ing.

[awakeN]

Hmmm... I think I'll just go and grab a laptop with a 6970m in it. Doesn't sound like the 660m will outperform and I don't think there will be a laptop around $1400 with a 680m in it.

[crpcookie]

No one wants anything to do with Rambus. They'll find a way to sue you lol.

[Cloudfire]

Hmmm... I think I'll just go and grab a laptop with a 6970m in it. Doesn't sound like the 660m will outperform and I don't think there will be a laptop around $1400 with a 680m in it.

Dude, no don`t do it. I think the 660M will perform atleast like the 6970M. You get a 50-55W 660M instead of a 80-100W 7970M. Atleast wait and see

[awakeN]

Dude, no don`t do it. I think the 660M will perform atleast like the 6970M. You get a 50-55W 660M instead of a 80-100W 7970M. Atleast wait and see

Yeah, I'm on a ticking clock. I need a new laptop very, very soon, since I'm having hardware issues with my macbook.

But, eh, it's only 3 days away until we find everything out.

Only thing is, I need a laptop with a 660m with good specs for ~$1400 like right away :x

[Cloudfire]

Yes 3 days more. You can survive that

[awakeN]

Yes 3 days more. You can survive that

Didn't you say you were going to leave this thread to ease the wait?

[Cloudfire]

Yeah I did. Several times