Thanks Rud! Now hopefully my account gets activated soon.

Woo! Great score Q! That's insane! Now I need my DICE pots so I can knock you off.

Rabid that means you're in trouble too!

Today I swam 200 breast and 400 IM... Those are TOUGH races. I was dizzy and lightheaded after both of them. I improved both a lot though, that was great... I think I took about 4 seconds off my 200Breast, and 14 off my 400 IM, which was insane. I don't think I've ever dropped that much at once in the 400 IM. Now I get to go back for Finals at 4 and race both of them again. 

Q56_Monster

14 Sec!!!  Nice job Halo!  Keep it going...all it takes is courage to go through the pain.  Smoke 'em in finals!

Thanks Q! @ Finals I took another 3 seconds off my 200 Breast time, and went 2 seconds slower in my 400IM.. Doesn't matter though. I'd rather have the 14 sec drop.

Tomorrow is the last day... Just 1 event tomorrow. 100 Breast.. Should be good! My best is 1:10.61 and tonight in my 200 my first 100 was 1:09.4 so That should be a nice drop.


I want my Gulftown + Fermi + DICE.

So I came back from PAX and I got to actually play with Fermi.  I have to say the 3d stuff going on at that place was incredible.  In order to have 3d on multiple monitors, you need a 470/480 as your primary card, and a 285 or better card as your second card.  Kinda sux for people who don't have those cards, but for people that do, they only need a single Fermi card to enjoy absolutely BREATHtaking 3d.  (need those glasses though)  The amount of heat being thrown out of those Fermi's was crazy.  I feel like I could easily burn my hands.  No worries, thats what water cooling is for.  I also did notice that just about every computer there had a Classified mobo.  I looked inside every computer and checked out those 480's.  They are AS LONG as the x58 board.  Still such a sight to see. 

Also I actually got to TOUCH the SR2 (not with my calipers) but i took dozens of high res pics of that board.  I can't tell you how much larger it is in person. Once you see this SLAB of pure bliss, you begin to wonder where the hell your going to get that thing to fit.  Then I said to myself I would probably re-arrange a room for that thing (and donate my left one)

johnksss

did they show it doing it doing any benchmarks or just demos of 3d?

Plenty of real Benchmarks out now.

Nate, you are one lucky man

So are you going to make the move to GTX 480s?

is it just the glasses you need or do you need the monitor too. It would be great if they could do it on regular 60hz monitors

nateman_doo

So I came back from PAX and I got to actually play with Fermi.  I have to say the 3d stuff going on at that place was incredible.  In order to have 3d on multiple monitors, you need a 470/480 as your primary card, and a 285 or better card as your second card.  Kinda sux for people who don't have those cards, but for people that do, they only need a single Fermi card to enjoy absolutely BREATHtaking 3d.  (need those glasses though)  The amount of heat being thrown out of those Fermi's was crazy.  I feel like I could easily burn my hands.  No worries, thats what water cooling is for.  I also did notice that just about every computer there had a Classified mobo.  I looked inside every computer and checked out those 480's.  They are AS LONG as the x58 board.  Still such a sight to see. 

Also I actually got to TOUCH the SR2 (not with my calipers) but i took dozens of high res pics of that board.  I can't tell you how much larger it is in person. Once you see this SLAB of pure bliss, you begin to wonder where the hell your going to get that thing to fit.  Then I said to myself I would probably re-arrange a room for that thing (and donate my left one)

Damn dude, sounds like someone had some fun! Gonna share the pics right?

Imageshack.com keeps my 12MP pictures the same size.

nateman_doo

I don't think the 3d pictures would come out as desired.  You just have to see it.  I was just annoyed I did some silly "scavenger hunt"  and didn't get my T-shirt.  I went to all the booths, got stuff stamped, and they weren't giving out any T-shirts until Saturday.  So if you had a friday pass, they said go screw.  Thanks Nvidia. 

I don't know where I could upload 12 megapixel pictures too.  Lord knows photobucket doesn't keep them at that resolution. 

Just put them on your computer and re-size with picasa or something like that. Using export.
You don't need anywhere near 12 megapixel resolution to display on web site etc.

Anyone order a 480?  Anyone see any real benches?

My project is coming along nicely. A few "bumps in the road," but nothing a dremel couldn't fix. I should be finished tonight or tomorrow, and then it will rain pics. Also, i should be prepping the DFI board w/ pd 915 in it for DICE tonight or tomorrow.

Is it just me or are these 480's not too impressive?  Considering Sham's massive cpu score and paltry LN2 cooled gpu score, I'm not impressed.    I was hoping one 480 would bench better than a GTX 295.  I don't think it would.  One of my 295's got a 29,116 the other night with a 980x, and my cpu score was 10,000 less than sham's.  My GPU score was 400+ points higher.  I'm on H2o, he's on LN2??  Doesn't make sense, does it?

Halo_003

 


although this is looking very promising.



ok...one thing...are these going to make it quad sli or only tri sli?????
or am i missing something..

johnksss 
ok...one thing...are these going to make it quad sli or only tri sli?????
or am i missing something..

Based on HWBot its gonna be quad sli. If you go to gtx480, it has options for 1x 2x 3x and 4x cards.

yeah...i dont think so... 

taken from nvidia's own site.  
Note: The below specifications represent this GPU as incorporated into NVIDIA's reference graphics card design. Graphics card specifications may vary by Add-in-card manufacturer. Please refer to the Add-in-card manufacturers' website for actual shipping specifications.
GPU Engine Specs:
CUDA Cores 480 Graphics Clock (MHz) 700 MHz Processor Clock (MHz) 1401 MHz Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 42  Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 1848  Standard Memory Config 1536 MB GDDR5 Memory Interface Width 384-bit Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 177.4 Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI®-ready* 2-way/3-Way NVIDIA 3D Vision Ready NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready*** NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology** HD NVIDIA PhysX™-ready NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology Microsoft DirectX 11 OpenGL 3.2  Bus Support PCI-E 2.0 x 16  Certified for Windows 7 Display Support:
Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600  Maximum VGA Resolution 2048x1536  Standard Display Connectors Mini HDMI
Two Dual Link DVI  Multi Monitor HDCP HDMI Audio Input for HDMI Internal Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height 4.376 inches (111 mm)  Length 10.5 inches (267 mm)  Width Dual-slot  Thermal and Power Specs:
Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) 105  C Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 250  W Minimum Recommended System Power (W) 600  W Supplementary Power Connectors 6-pin & 8-pin    *- A GeForce GTX 480 GPU must be paired with another GeForce GTX 480 GPU (graphics card manufacturer can be different). SLI requires sufficient system cooling and a compatible power supply. Visit www.slizone.com for more information and a listing of SLI-Certified components.
**- Supported video software is required to experience certain features. Visit www.nvidia.com for more details.
***- NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround requires NVIDIA release 256 driver, two or more graphics cards in NVIDIA SLI configuration, 3D Vision glasses and three matching 3D Vision-Ready displays. See www.nvidia.com/surround for more information.