The answer to our prayers?
THE GAINWARD COMPANY , known to make very fast nVidia based cards, is going to surprise us again. We expect this PowerPack card will be faster than many cards but Gainward has some other things in mind. Once more it has given a short and easy to remember name; GW GF FX PP MU 1000 P GS would be the initials or Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1000 Plus "Golden Sample". Gainward didn't try for its usual card modifications, it's simply going to use the same reference board designed for all nVidia partners. But it will do something about the cooling. Most of the very few Geforce FX reviewed so far have suffered from an extremely loud cooling card on the system.
Gainward will introduce two cards. The first is named the Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1000 Plus “Golden Sample” that will be clocked at 500 / 1000 MHz. The second based on Geforce FX 5800 (non-ultra). This card should cost juicy €649 including VAT or £449 in the good old UK. It will be named the same except 1000 will be changed to 800 as that’s the speed of memory on Geforce FX. So it's the Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/800 Plus “Golden Sample” and this baby will cost you €549 on the continent or £389 in Blighty.
News source: The inq.
THE GAINWARD COMPANY , known to make very fast nVidia based cards, is going to surprise us again. We expect this PowerPack card will be faster than many cards but Gainward has some other things in mind. Once more it has given a short and easy to remember name; GW GF FX PP MU 1000 P GS would be the initials or Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1000 Plus "Golden Sample". Gainward didn't try for its usual card modifications, it's simply going to use the same reference board designed for all nVidia partners. But it will do something about the cooling. Most of the very few Geforce FX reviewed so far have suffered from an extremely loud cooling card on the system.
Gainward will introduce two cards. The first is named the Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1000 Plus “Golden Sample” that will be clocked at 500 / 1000 MHz. The second based on Geforce FX 5800 (non-ultra). This card should cost juicy €649 including VAT or £449 in the good old UK. It will be named the same except 1000 will be changed to 800 as that’s the speed of memory on Geforce FX. So it's the Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/800 Plus “Golden Sample” and this baby will cost you €549 on the continent or £389 in Blighty.
News source: The inq.
Gainward have promised to bundle some nice games but we are not aware of what at this time. We know it should be more than one title. You will get a Firewire and 5.1 sound card with Spdif and optical capabilities in this pack.
Gainward engineers in Taiwan, before they get their deserved week of vacation for Chinese New year, have been busy to making a low noise cooling solution. They were able to reduce the cooling system noise to only 7dbs. They claim the rest of the Nvidia reference design cards could be as high as 70db that is "the same level as a domestic vacuum cleaner". We don’t need to say more.
The Expert tool from their past card will be included but we don’t have any news at press time how overclockable these cards will be.
The warranty for the card is 36 months company says and the earliest worms should find them available after the second week of February.
How Gainward can make the card run as quiet as 7db knowing that heart beat is 10 db and rest of Nvidia partners will be from 60-70db remains mystery for now.
Last edited by 536 on 30 Jan 2003 - 23:17
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