news 28 Posted December 16, 2008 NVIDIA GTX 285 is scheduled for 8 Jan 2009 launch Link <http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=80981&goto=newpost> Posted on 12/16/2008 ( -at -) 10:21 PM According to news we gathered, the next NVIDIA card that will be launch is the NVIDIA GTX 285. The GTX 285 will perform better than the GTX 280 and is scheduled to be launched on 8 Jan 2009. Adopting P891 as reference design, GeForce GTX285 remains 10.5" length just as GTX280. And its cooler is dual-slot designed with dual DVI and S-Video output. The graphic memory carries on 1GB GDDR3, and its stream processors is 240. The frequency of GeForce GTX285 remains to be confirmed, but its performance can get up to 110% of GTX280. We can regard GeForce GTX285 as GTX280 Overclocking Edition with less power consumption. GeForce GTX280's Maximum Graphics Card Power is 236W, and it requires a 6-pin and a 8-pin PEG Power Connectors. However, GeForce GTX285's power consumption has been reduced to 183W with only 2 6-pin PEG power connectors needed. NVIDIA Atom chipset can support SLI Link <http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=80957&goto=newpost> Posted on 12/16/2008 ( -at -) 12:45 PM As we all know, NVIDIA is slated to launch their chipsets to support the Intel Atom processor for nettops and netbooks. These two chipsets, as discussed before are variants of MCP7A and MCP79. Although the current 945GM suits the Atom, it is a yesteryear production, lacking in a lot of new functionalities. Only if they have G45, you would get ClearVideo really working to decode H.264 with hardware acceleration. The MCP7A/79 should be capable of PureVideo and thus this is one of the plus point of the NVIDIA chipests. As MCP7A and MCP79 supports Dual PCI-E x8, it is actually possible to enable SLI support for the Atom based product, possibly in a Nettop. In addition, MCP7A supports single channel 4x DDR2 533/667/800 and 6 SATA II ports, 12 USB, 1 PCIex1, HD audio, GbE LAN and 1394. Would final implementations of NetPC uses all these features and throw in SLI support? What about Netbook ? Would it be the next low cost Desk top replacement if it is cheap to produce. It is also a good opportunity to get rid of those MCP7A which not many desktop mainboard manufacturers were interested in when it was first launched early this year. Share this post Link to post
