ocaholic - Board

Quoted from "3DVagabond"

OMG! Nice looking PCB. Power stage built for extreme O/C'ing. Surprised it doesn't have some sort of "Death Star Mode" bios switch.

Can't wait to read more.

BTW, where did all the rest of the pics go?

ASUS communicated in kind of a weird way First they said it's ok to publish pics, so I spent something like 2 hours to make some really nice pics and then they come and say ... please take your pics offline, we only want the official press pics online ... HRML!

Yeah ... next to the 100% fans speed button there should some kind of suicide LN2 button

Quoted from "3DVagabond"

I figured it was something like that. Probably didn't like the naked PCB shots. Too bad. At least I got a look at them before they were gone.

Yeah I think the same ... but anyway ... with the explosion picture it's kind of a joke ...

Quoted from "3DVagabond"

So, is there a review coming now? This baby's got me droolin'

We will publish the review today, since the NDA is lifting today. I was quite pissed when ASUS said we had to take the pics offline again

Quoted from "3DVagabond"

Awe. I came home from work and was expecting to see the review. Asus still not cooperating?

Sorry man Christian Ney is still working on it! (the lazy bugger )

We're going to put LN2 on the card today, but if you guys want us to, we can also do some air cooling oc or try to fit the arctic hybrid cooler and see what it can do watercooled.

Basically, when you want to have huge comparision tables, like you can find in our GPU Charts, then you always have to do something "wrong". When you have 80+ cards in a list you can just retest all the cards once a week, since benching one card takes 2.5 hours. So I can think of only two options left. Either you use the same driver (if possible) or you always use the latest one, when you conduct test.

I remember a discussion between Chris and me where we were discussing about this. I mean both scenarios have their downsides, but imo I would always test the card with latest drivers and not retest the older cards. Sure, the newer card will have a bit of an advantage but I think it's for a possible customer it is most interesting what the card can actually do

Imo testing and comparing graphics cards is always a trade off. If you really wanted to do it right you'd have to retest every single card when a new driver comes out and this is just ridiculous or we'd need to have 5 to 10 fully employed people that only do GPU testing.