It's sooo big!

[jchoft]

Hah! yes it is. Just got some new hardware for a budget (?) work-/gamestation. And the xfx gtx 260 (core216) is sooo big (and black)!

It's like my old graphix cards walket into the showers and found he all the other guys had incredibly large wangs.

Rant away, i'm just celebrating. Share my joy

well-well... back to slipstreaming and creating a unattended XP install on a stick (waiting on W7 RC1). It's been so long since i did this the last time. Go figure; my last xp installation lastet 3 years w/o problems...

[Tripredacus]

I'm not really sure why some cards are much larger than others, especially sometimes smaller cards are actually better than the bigger ones.

[puntoMX]

Bigger isn´t better, especially if the rest of the PC can't even bring up enough power to use that card at full size, I mean speed. It's all between your ears .

[jchoft]

I'm not really sure why some cards are much larger than others, especially sometimes smaller cards are actually better than the bigger ones.

Many good reasons: heat sinks, fans, layout, production technology, and more i guess.

But in this case bigger is better It's been at least 6 years since I owned a workstation (for game purposes), even my laptop is running on its 3rd or so year. My memory of installing graphix cards in a self built pc dates back to riva TnT, or was there one before that as well... i believe it was, the name eludes me. Since then there have been a number of ati/nvidia cards, but this gtx 260 is so much bigger (and more powerfull) than any card i've had before; The weight of it surprised me.

Bigger isn´t better, especially if the rest of the PC can't even bring up enough power to use that card at full size, I mean speed. It's all between your ears .

I made sure to pick hardware wich would do the gtx 260 right. Can't have it running idle, no bottle necks (proof of speed between the ears?). I'll be exploring the CUDA part of the nvidia card soon. Love to have some cpu/memory intensive task runnning on that card.

And for the wang; It's a known fact that meter/second is the measure of choice, not meters.

[Zenskas]

Yes in this case a big GTX 260 is better than any smaller card. The reason for big cards is big GPU die sizes and the need for more voltage hardware on the PCB because the card is so advanced compared with any other card made over a few years ago. Plus to keep the heat and noise down it uses a large heatsink and quiet fan which is why it is heavy.

Edited April 16, 2009 by Zenskas