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To: dougSF30 who wrote (220171)	12/12/2006 8:38:37 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: R600 power pig Desperate times call for desperate measures. Apparently AMD feels they needs to squeeze an extra couple hundred MHz out of this design to make it worthwhile. Assuming the rumors are accurate, power consumption is insane even if it turns out to be 25+% faster than the 8800GTX. More R600 stuff: hexus.net As many of you know, ATi R600 should be with us now. ATI's AIB manufacturing partners are gagging for it. The biggest trouble they're having is that there are no GPUs floating around. None. ... ATi has looked at water-cooling and traditional air cooling. But, the speed of the processor and its resultant heat output have meant that ATi also had to consider more complex hi-tech solutions. So, the company turned to NanoFoil cooling technology. This, as best we can understand, works by having ultra-thin nanolayers of aluminium and nickel that can be kicked into life by heat, electricity or mechanical or optical stimulation, causing a reaction that gives off heat in a controlled fashion. But NanoFoil is a solution that's been looking for a problem since the turn of 2003, and hasn't as far as we known, had any real-life use for cooling GPUs, CPUs or anything similar. At the heart of the cooling problem, though, is the R600's power requirements. These are nothing short of laughable at the moment...