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    Fermi board faked?

    OK, it's a Charlie D article so fanatically biased, but does he have a point?

    http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/...mi-boards-gtc/

    I suspect it was indeed a fake. Not that it really matters though.

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    Thoes pictures are from a fake card, however looking at the original source http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/n...01_318660.html
    Those pic's are not of the card that Jen-Hsun Huang held up.
    So fake might not be the right word, it looks more like a presentation mock up, of the "here's a model of what our final design will look like" type.
    If nvidia is clameing that's a final working prototype then I'd fully agree that's rather naughty of them and would leaad me to think that they are behind schedual with an actual working prototype.
    Or where they really paraniod that someone might steal it?

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    That does look like a non functional physical model.
    Such things have to exist as part of the engineering process, but it would require a bear of very little brain to let the press photograph it if you have declared such a model was the real deal.

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    Techpowerup agrees that it was a fake on the day.
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    Quote Originally Posted by Pob255 View Post
    Thoes pictures are from a fake card, however looking at the original source http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/n...01_318660.html
    Those pic's are not of the card that Jen-Hsun Huang held up.
    So fake might not be the right word, it looks more like a presentation mock up, of the "here's a model of what our final design will look like" type.
    If nvidia is clameing that's a final working prototype then I'd fully agree that's rather naughty of them and would leaad me to think that they are behind schedual with an actual working prototype.
    Or where they really paraniod that someone might steal it?
    Well that makes more sense, the card he held up is not the model in the other photographs.

    From my experience in electronics, when they first get silicon they will get it soldered onto boards which will already be ready and waiting. At least one of those boards will refuse to work, so you aught to have something you can wave on a stage and claim quite validly is the real deal without holding up engineering schedules.

    Charlie has been bang on with so many things, but this one just doesn't make sense to me. Even if silicon is behind, the PCB, cooler and plastics have no need to be off schedule.

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    That's pretty odd. The PCB looks like it's had a load of it cut off the end - there are the tail ends of a pair of stickers and it would also explain why there are a lone pair of solder points for a PCIe power connector.

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    I guess I'm the only one expecting to see pics of Fermi Board naked.

    Damn my inability to read and concentr...... ooh look a biro!
    |Kata: "Read title as 'fisting'. Not sure why I clicked. Relieved, really."|
    |TAKTAK: "It was so small that mine wouldn't fit into it"|

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    that's board not broad
    Did you think Fermi was the new nvidia demo girl?

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    Quote Originally Posted by Pob255 View Post
    that's board not broad
    Did you think Fermi was the new nvidia demo girl?
    http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...r_Q4_2009.html

    NVIDIA has already stated that it was just a mock up for the presentation, and that they'll have shipping cards this year.

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    Re: Fermi board faked?

    I wonder if they would have admitted that if people hadnt drooled over the board porn and noticed!!!

    Either way, it's all very exciting for scientists etc....although we dont need much to get us excited!!!

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