Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hey people,

I've been keeping an eye open for any sign of an approaching GTX 680 and so far there are pleanty of rumours but nothing solid at all from Nvidia. The lack of any presentation or official specification at least makes me think it will at least be a month before cards are in store. When the 7970 was formally released it was available about a month later....
To be honest, real spec's of the 7970 were out a long time before this.

I have heard that there is a chance of Nvidia demonstrating the new Keplar technology at PDXLAN this weekend.

I'm in the market for a high end card. I want the best. So... Nvidia, if you want my money... now is the time to let me give it to you.

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i7 3770k, P8Z77v Pro, 16gb Ram,2x Samsung 840 SSD RAID 0 + 4.5tb storage, 7970 Oc'd + 7950 in crossfire, 3x SP2309w monitors + 1 acer monitor, Asus D2X Xonar, Creative T40 Speakers plus satalite speakers + audio transducer

Unfortunately for Nvidia, yields of Kepler are lower than the company originally anticipated and therefore their costs are high. Chief exec of Nvidia remains optimistic and claims that the situation with Fermi ramp up was ever worse than that.

Yield Issues Article

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*** SPECIAL PDXLAN 19 ALERT!!! ***
Monday, 13 February 2012
NVIDIA and Gearbox are bringing something really special to PDXLAN 19.
Attendees are in for an exclusive treat from one of the year’s hottest games that will blow your mind!!

PDXLAN Website

Is it a game... is it a card????

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Nvidia has a way better NDA than AMD. You wont hear much. Even some days before release.

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We gonna send it to outa space!

I'm in the market for a high end card. I want the best. So... Nvidia, if you want my money... now is the time to let me give it to you.

You need two of those bad boys to run triple screen so I hope you saved up ;)

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I did have two 7970s which I sent back due to some problems. A few people on here convinced me that 1 is enough and it's not worth getting a second one really.

so my plan was to get one 7970 or GTX 680 and a racing wheel....

Seeing as Nvidia haven't even said they're product is coming out, and if you cant run multi monitor from one card then it looks like it's 7970's all the way!

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i7 3770k, P8Z77v Pro, 16gb Ram,2x Samsung 840 SSD RAID 0 + 4.5tb storage, 7970 Oc'd + 7950 in crossfire, 3x SP2309w monitors + 1 acer monitor, Asus D2X Xonar, Creative T40 Speakers plus satalite speakers + audio transducer

March to April is the current release schedule for the Nvidia mid range cards. Supposedly the test samples went out last week so should be atleast 6 weeks before they launch from that date. The 680 is expected another couple of months after that. Thats about as much solid info as we got for a release schedule..

So from what your saying they're doing it the oposite way around to ATI.
ATI launched with their flagship single GPU card and then staggered the lower ranked cards.

NVidia is likely to do mid ranked cards and work up to the high end.

And the fastest Single GPU card in the world goes to NVIDIA!!!!!.... (because they released it half a year later)

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i7 3770k, P8Z77v Pro, 16gb Ram,2x Samsung 840 SSD RAID 0 + 4.5tb storage, 7970 Oc'd + 7950 in crossfire, 3x SP2309w monitors + 1 acer monitor, Asus D2X Xonar, Creative T40 Speakers plus satalite speakers + audio transducer

A few people on here convinced me that 1 is enough and it's not worth getting a second one really.

haha nice joke! Try running Crysis 2 in 5760*1080 with Dx11, high res patch and Extreme preset! 35-40 FPS! ( IN Crossfire mode!)

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We gonna send it to outa space!

[quote]A few people on here convinced me that 1 is enough and it's not worth getting a second one really.

haha nice joke! Try running Crysis 2 in 5760*1080 with Dx11, high res patch and Extreme preset! 35-40 FPS! ( IN Crossfire mode!)

I guess what Sparx meant was, that running 2 cards would result in microstuttering, so that would make it more or less useless at which point you might as well just buy one card.

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