Did you know that Nvidia have banned overclocking their G80 based units? That means if you buy a card from Gigabyte, EVGA, XFX, BFG, they will all be clocked the same - 500/1600MHz for the 8800GTS and 570MHz/1800MHz for the 8800GTX. Apparently, the chips are already at their limit. You could of course go out and buy the watercooled edition from BFG. Comes with standard clocks, but you can overclock it after.

Wow, that's really strange. Surely if people can get extra clocks out of them they should be allowed?

It appears that the units can still be overclocked, but at the users risk? It will not be endorsed by either Nvidia or their partners. So if you fry your graphics card because you clocked it too high, it definitely won't be covered under the warranty. Not sure if it would be with any unit anyway!?

Overclocking is never covered by warranty, unless explicity specified by the 2nd company (XFX, BFG etc).

XFX now have a license to overclock the 8800 graphics cards! And I can confirm this, because here you will find an XFX 8800GTX XXX edition... The memory runs at 2GHz and the core runs at 630MHz...

Standard: 575/1800
XXX: 630/2000 (10.3% overclock)

Juicy. But it costs ?528.61, so the price/performance ratio is out of whack compared to the standard card, because it isn't 10.3% more expensive than the standard XFX card, but 26.8% more expensive.. so only for the power hungry.

Linky: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductI ... tID=519994

OMFG, that card is insane! I want one! No, wait scrap, that, I want 2! And a new motherboard, and 4 GBs of RAM, and Dual AMD duallies! Pwnage!

...wait...

...damn...

...no money.

Quad FX is really good value for money
I think AMD will sell more Quad FX paired CPU's than Intel will sell QX6700's by the time native quad-cores are released at the end of 2007.
The Quad FX platform is also native quad-core ready, so you could have 8 CPU's I think that AMD are going to take the idea from the graphics market, that pairing up processors is a really good idea. I think the trend could continue for a while. It won't be just dual-processor workstations, but SLI CPU's or something like that.

Yeah, I know, it'd be pwnage. Next summer you could build a computer with 14 processing cores in it!

Hot

(Literally)

That's why they're also bringing out the new "build your PC inside a freezer" feature. Well, they aren't, but some modder will. Anyone want to provide me with money and a case sized fridge?

You want phase-change cooling It's basically like a component-specific refridgerator. Of course, they cost hundreds, but they keep your processor(s) running at a reasonable -30C sort of temperature. The Prometeia Mach II GT is one of the best.

Yeah, I know what phase change cooling is, but for 14 cores, with 6 individual processors, that's a lot of expensive equipment. I think building a PC in a fridge would be better, only problem is you'd need a de-humidifier and extraction system (with a fridge being a sealed system it is bound to get hot over time, so you'd need to extract all the hot air, somehow. Either that or the fridge works overtime to stay running. Oh, and getting cables to the PC would be hard...

Fridges use a lot of energy though, don't they? It'd be too expensive :O

Not that much, get a good one and it'd be alright, though more expensive than using it to store food. Still probably cheaper than using 6 phase changers, and more space efficient.