G80 Reference Design Nailed By Asus

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited October 2006 in Science & Tech
Typically Nvidia has turned to MSI for the reference design of its new cards, but it looks as if ASUS has stepped up its development and design and won the bid to create the reference system for Nvidia this time round. Both G80 cards, Geforce 8800 GTS and GTX are designed by Asus.
The first batch of cards will be differentiated by a sticker on the cooler. GTX is bigger and has two power connectors while GTS has single power connector and is shorter. They both have the same massive cooler.

The launch date is the 8th of November but samples are slowly floating around and if you are on Nvidia's VIP list you already have one. If not you will have to wait for a while for its partner to have them ready. DX10 hardware is finally materialising and Asus has made an effort to make it possible.
Source: The Inquirer

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  • miragemirage
    edited October 2006
    Sledgehammer70 wrote:
    Typically Nvidia has turned to MSI for the reference design of its new cards, but it looks as if ASUS has stepped up its development and design and won the bid to create the reference system for Nvidia this time round. Both G80 cards, Geforce 8800 GTS and GTX are designed by Asus.


    Source: The Inquirer


    I had cursed three times when I was installing my ASUS 6800XT. First, I do not know what inspired them, the power plug on the card was vertical. AC-NV5-R3 cooler completely blocked the power plug and I had to solder another plug on the opposite side. Second, the cooler fan's power plug was non-standard, another mod was necessary. Third, default Nvidia drivers were not able to read the temperatures, a special ASUS driver was needed to read the temperatures. I wish MSI would be doing the reference design again. Hate the proprietary designs :grumble: Bright side is, with ASUS doing the reference design, they might follow their own reference in their products this time :)
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    :rant:

    GTS and GTX are the model names? What about later when they, inevitably, release a faster version? Will it be called the 8850 GTXSL?

    I wish they'd stop trying to name everything like it's fast. Just have the regular card, the 8800 (can't wait to see what they do when they get close to 10,000), a faster version, call it the 8800GT, and a slower version, 8800LE. Viola. Now people know what the hell they're buying.

    [/rant]
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Gargoyle wrote:
    :rant:

    GTS and GTX are the model names? What about later when they, inevitably, release a faster version? Will it be called the 8850 GTXSL?

    I wish they'd stop trying to name everything like it's fast. Just have the regular card, the 8800 (can't wait to see what they do when they get close to 10,000), a faster version, call it the 8800GT, and a slower version, 8800LE. Viola. Now people know what the hell they're buying.

    [/rant]

    Then they might as well fire a majority of their marketing group.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    RWB wrote:
    Then they might as well fire a majority of their marketing group.
    And hire me. I'm cheap - I work for 3dMarks ;)
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Most cards were pushed out by AOpen during those times.. along with MSI :)
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