Yet more tales from the Zone known as VR...

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 02:24:21 Fri, February 09, 2007

Apparently VR Zone has some super secret spy pics of the R600. I can't view that site from work but I can see some wonderful R600 pics at this page over at Overclockers.com. And before all you guys go nuts, I really don't think that the card will be that long when it hits shelves. The card they show is so long, I don't think it could fit into my giant Thermaltake Armor case.

10 Comments

Friday, February 09, 2007 2:51:32 PM

anonymous
guest

I'm under the impression this is the OEM (aka Dell) version of the card; the retail should only be 9".

Friday, February 09, 2007 4:02:49 PM

David
Senior Member

Nice but useless.

Friday, February 09, 2007 4:55:07 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

Is the news useless, or is the video card useless? (Hint, if the news is useless, you will make me cry.)

Friday, February 09, 2007 9:53:29 PM

David
Senior Member

No i meant the pic since we all heard the retail version would ve shorter then the 8800gtx. My guess is that this card was made very early in the cycle before the design being finalized.

Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:31:18 AM

aliquidparadigm
Senior Member

The OEM version is going to end up 12" because, really, they want to make sure the card never overheats, and no-one really cares about having a pre-built computer that has one of the HDD bays filled by a GPU fan.

The retail version will end up (probably) 9.5", and will end up pressing against your cabling for your HDDs--measure it out. You SHOULD be able to fit it in with a SATA drive... but it's going to be freaking tight.

Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:54:18 AM

anonymous
guest

Now that's cooling

Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:34:40 AM

Kriza
n00b

they're only showing us OEM cards... where's the retails?

Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:31:14 PM

I once worked for ati.
guest

I've seen the final production card the xtx version is shorter then the 8800gtx and the xt is shorter then the 8800gts.

Monday, February 12, 2007 8:46:34 AM

Kriza
n00b

really?
If you have worked for ATI, may be you know, have ATI sent some cards with R600 GPU for testing? There was a rumor that it was some kind of registration in AMD's home page and some of the people who registered, got a R600 card...

Friday, February 16, 2007 12:24:09 AM

David
Senior Member

I hope it's true cause then i'd sell my card for 300$(I can get that in some areas especially since it's 640mb) And buy the x2800xt since it will fit into my case.

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