To us remained some doubts, that on passing during these days exhibition CES 2007 in Las Vegas will be demonstrated video card on the base chip r600, resembling series models, which must appear supposedly during March.
We will start perhaps from the information about the anoncement periods. Precise date is not thus far known, but previous information about the transfer on March of the anoncement has all chances to be justified. Strictly, announcement purely technically cannot take place during February, models video card will be distributed between reviewers and producers only on 28 February, 2007. As report British associates, AMD will try to not allow paper anoncement, but therefore deliveries video card can begin during March. At the same time can take place formal announcement. With the successful confluence of circumstances video card on the base of r600 they will appear in sale through in several days after the anoncement, to the end of the first quarter.
American associates refine, that at the anoncement moment of elder version r600 ,it will be equipped with memory of type GDDR-4. It was previously assumed that the first will modification with memory of type GDDR- E. This version actually already exists in the type of engineering models, but he uses the video chip revision a12. However, series video card must use the video chip r600 revision a13. Frequencies video card on the base Of r600 still not affirmed, they will be suppled with narrow a certain time of anoncement.
Singapore site vR-Zone has the prototype of video card that hi publishes . We can see cooling system with the turbine and radiator on thermal tubes, and also the repeatedly mentioned octal power connector, which supplements usual six-pin connector. The connecting bridges which connect two video card in regime crossFire Are also provided .
Imposing length video card (300 mm) must not frighten end users. As reports associate , a long version Of r600 will use OEM- producers in the composition of their systems. User version video card will have a length not more than 230 mm. Related Products :
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