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[chriso_86]

Check out this awesome DX10 rendered image!!!

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Many of you noticed the smaller chip that accompanies G80 on the GTX board. You can clearly see it on the site.

We popped the question as we wanted to know what it is doing. It turns out that the small chip on the Geforce 8800 cards is an Nvidia NVIO chip. It provides dual 400MHz RAMDAC and Dual - Dual Link DVI output, TV Out and HDCP. Our informative friends call the chip External Video I/O Chip or simply External RAMDAC. We don’t have any idea why Nvidia needed that, as RAMDAC has been normally part of the chip for generations.

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[godless]

Ya, if you check out the Alan Wake video (somewhere on this site) you can see water in DX10, which looks amazing btw...

The GTS will only be available in Spring 2007 right?

8800GTX 12V 30A (450W)

8800GTS 12V 26A (400W)

**** i cant run the gtx, but the gts is fine I got a +12V 28A (520W OCZ ModStream 12U)

Edited by godless, 29 October 2006 - 06:45 PM.

[GSG-9]

Thats not a rendered image

I believe they will be released at the same time.

Edited by GSG-9, 29 October 2006 - 06:48 PM.

[godless]

Yep, just read they will be released at the same time, which is nice

Edited by godless, 29 October 2006 - 07:12 PM.

[godless]

Yep, hasnt been confirmed by Nvidia though officially, as far as I know

[GSG-9]

I will get one in 90 some days.

I don't have the minimum amps but I did not for my 7800Gt eather...and there are no 28amp matx psu's so whatever...

[godless]

I cant afford the GTX, just too expensive, but I can afford the GTS (not sure if I'll buy it though)

[godless]

Theres some noticeable differences between the cards, benchmarks should show if it warrants it

[VROSA]

I hope they will be released together, i also cant afford a GTX and dont want to wait until 2007 spring ! :rolleyes:

[godless]

Ya, it was mentioned earlier they will both be released at the same time

[chriso_86]

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BOTH Nvidia's upcoming G80 and ATI's yet-to-come-in-2007 R600 chips have native support for HDMI. Actually, maybe Nvidia has this on its I/O chip but the bottom line is that the G80-based Geforce 8800 GTX and GTS have native HDMI support.

It's buried in the chip, along with native HDCP support. The firms just need to pay half a cent to Intel for a key embedded in the card bios and you get yourself a HDMI/HDCP capable card.

Nvidia and ATI are paying a $10.000 annual membership fee and they are willing to pay four cents for the HDMI royalty as well.

The only catch is that you need to make the PCB to include the HDMI connector on a graphic card. This should not be a big problem as, video-wise HDMI is DVI - it works the same way, just the connector is different, and it can drive a audio signal while DVI can't.

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This is the news I have been waiting for!!! I will be waiting for a HDMI card for sure. No point in buying a DVI that will be out-dated soon.