Two VERY WEIRD "FACTS" about the R300!

coffindancer

Acoording to german Onlinekosten.de, the R300

a) will be launched at July 17 (very hard to believe)

and

b) like the Voodoo 5 it will need a separate power connection (!!)


Is it me or are these boys smocking too much dope during the day??


http://www.onlinekosten.de/news/artikel.php3?id=9346

brc64

Well, an image I saw that was supposed to be of the R300 (though I am skeptical) did show a floppy power connector. As for the July release date, I think that's some very wishful thinking..

- Me

digitalwanderer

OOOooooh! How do you smock dope? I've never tried that....

As for the 17th...I sure hope so! (Quickly runs to delete his "Need an AIW 8500!" post!)

coffindancer

Ok folks, even one of my favourite german hardware-news-sites posted the same stuff as above.

The info about the separate power connection comes from the Inquirer:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4299


I guess the thing about the release date July 17 is related to the teaser on ATI's site.

Why should they do such a promotion for that little increase of performance (R250)?

Ok, ok every leader of an own product category should be promoted as such, but the Teaser is actually promising more than the R250 can deliver, so everyone thinks -> must be for R300 introduction!

Perhaps Ati thought: "Let's don't work that out with the power consumption, we release it in front of th NV30 and give them a separate power connection!"

raptora12

ExCibular

I think it is very well possible that the R300 will be announced the 17th of July. There is still some time between the day it is announced and the day it will hit the shelves. And the teaser on Ati's website shows that it will happen soon.

SilentSnipeR

I don't see what's so bad about the need of a floppy contector. It sure needs one since it carry's 100million transistors or somthing.

I assume it will be anounced on the 17th. What's the use of bringing out a DX9 card if you haven't got DX9 to install :P

highpingdrifter

could it be released with a beta dx9 or they could release and everyone will have to wait for dx9 just like advertising smoothvison with 8500

Zarathustra

Why would anyone care about DX9 beta being shipped with the card when no games support any of its features? ATI just needs to get that thing out so they can steal Nvidia's thunder (since Matrox obviously missed the punch).