Let's speculate about Nvidia's "Power of 3" countdown.

[Steve]

Look for the banner. (http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html)

So lots of people at my stomping grounds are wondering what this could mean.
[H]ard|Forum discussion. (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=935913)

I just thought I should bring it over here as well so as to find out what you guys think.

I think it will be something big.
The banner says, "you don't buy vinyl records, you don't use a typewriter, you don't use dial up, so don't buy old graphics for your PC".
That makes me think that they think they have something that will make the current stuff obsolete.

Maybe combining a PCI card with your two PCI Express cards?
It is hard for me to imagine what it could be.

What do folks think?

[Mike]

I'm guessing either C51, their nforce chipset with built in graphics...or...it's the new drivers which will enable dual core optimizations...

Everyone is going crazy over at the [H]...10 pages and counting last I looked...

[phranq]

zipzoomfly has an "nvidia power of 3" banner too, and when you click on it you get this http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Speci...ding_062105.jsp now they seem to have removed the link from the banner, but the page exists, for now.

[Steve]

I did not know that.
Neat.

BTW I just finished sending you a very special private message. :D

I hope you like it. :rolleyes:

[phranq]

Hmm, so it looks like Nvidia was hyping old tech themselves...

According to several "in" people over at the nV News Forums the "Power of 3" is in fact SM3, HDR, and SLI...a little disappointing that they felt the need to have a countdown for that.


From an nV News Forums Administrator.

The "The Power of 3" is an upcoming marketing campaign with an underlying goal that benefits the industry and consumers. NVIDIA has identified three key features that define the standard for today's graphics cards. If a graphics card does not support all three features, then it is based on "old technology."