NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280 gets cracked open and reviewed

It's not all that often we see a video card get dissected, but it's also not very often that we see a card with as much hardware as NVIDIA's new top-end GeForce GTX 280, which proved to be enough to get the folks at Custom PC to crack one open for a looksee. As you can see above, after removing more than a few screws, they were able to take a peak at the card's lone, massive GPU, which not surprisingly produces enough heat to require the huge cooler and heat sink that conceals it. Of course, they also put the card through its paces and, while they did find that it's bar-none the fast single GPU card out there, the performance compared to a GeForce 9800 GX2 makes the situation a bit murkier, especially given the GTX 280's hefty price tag and lofty system requirements. That apparently wasn't enough to keep it from getting their seal of approval, however, with it earning a more than respectable 84% rating.

Read - Custom PC, "Taking apart the GeForce GTX 280"
Read - Custom PC, GeForce GTX 280 Review

[Wwhat Posted Jun 18th 2008 8:25AM]

The thing does NOT have DX10.1 because nvidia claims, developers 'don't need it they said', never mind that that's total BS and idiotic.

Well no DX10.1 = no sale, and to think they ask 600+ bucks for the thing.. it's like they hired the former ATI managers.

I'd say the release of this is a dream come true for ATI-nay-AMD