He he he,
I have a Corsair HS620 psu in my pc and someone in Sapphire forum have had the courage to say that the problem is caused by the psu...
http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/forums/showthread.php?t=12847
See the other threads too
Thanks my friends,
Tom.

As it solved the instability for many (not all), it is a comfirmed part of the Problem (and therefor simply too hot, regardless of actual temperature)

Anything on a modern retail Hardware becoming too hot to touch is wrong and indicating a significantly reduced lifetime.

The more modern the architecture gets, the less heat it generally can stand over prolonged times - unless it is hardened by modern materials, which however is something completely uncommon in price-driven mass markets.

Got more leaked pics which I got from the Dutch GoT ATi news discussion topic part 55

3DM 05 @ 1024 x 768


3DM 05 @ 1280 x 1024


3DM 05 @ 1280 x 1024 & FSAA x4 AF x8


here some pics of the AMD Ati Radeon HD 2900XT in live action


Here the ATi Catalyst Overclock panel


Here some layout scemes of the HD2400 aka RV610, HD2600 aka RV630 and the HD2900 aka R600 series:

HD 2400:


HD 2600:


HD 2900:


Okay got some far better pics!! damn this card is sweet too!

here's the HD 2900XT compared between a GeForce 8800GTS 640 as a 8800GTX 768 qua lengths


The card it's self in it's full size glory!


and the Launch partners har har har!


and here tons of official info of this beauty!
http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=304&view=yes

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well the HD 2600XT will also be made in an AGP x8 model and it's about 15% overall faster than the X1950 XTX isn't this cool! thereby crushing the nVidia GeForce 8600GTS with ease

I think that ATI/AMD just needed to release this card so they would have something to stand up to the power of the Geforce.

They did succeed in that so it seems, now they have some more time to perfect the architecture.

They did that before, release a card that actually needed a 2nd go at the core and still outperform nVidia.

Look at the 9700pro/9800pro same idea, only they weren't getting as hot ofcourse.

I think that the R600+ or whatever it will be called, will be a good makeover of the R600, with lesser heat and more power.

And truth be said, people that shell out 500+ euros for a videocard are generally not the kind of people that worry about the electrical bill.

And case cooling has become more and more efficient, so the heat the card generates can be dealt with accordingly as well.

And ATI going the way of the emperor?? No, I don't see that happening. ATI may have lost market share, but loads of people know the R600 is coming and are waiting for it so they can buy one, so ATI will get marketshare back, I have no doubt about that.

I seem to recall that the R600 will be produced on 65nm, and will produce less heat and use less power then was 1st thought, cause the original design was based on 80nm core I think.

Well, it is "a bit" different.

AMD simply could not produce sufficient Processors for the channel market after fullfilling contracts with Dell.

They simply did not have the capacity.

After intel released the Core 2 Duo, AMD had to slash prices in order to stay competitive - again, they could not deliver sufficient CPUs.

What we currently see is not a "strategy", it is a survival fight. Every single day the company is driving Millions in operative losses. So much, that they recently had to start looking into crisis financing.

The ATI section right now cant even deliver. If they had the chance, they would have immediately filled the channels with the released R600 in order to get profitable again - they could not do it.

Talking from the heads of shareholders or businessmen, the last 12 month belong to the worst AMD has ever seen in its company history - and thats certainly not strategy...

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In the CPU world, AMD is looking at even worse numbers now... Even if the K10 was to be released tomorrow, if would be an expensive Server CPU, with a very limited Server market. What they need .today. is the Desktop Version to compete against the Core 2 Duo. According to their own Roadmap, this will not happen until early 2008 - which is nothing but a full-blown desaster, unless they can tweak even more performance out of the existing design in a hurry.... and actually deliver it in numbers.

yeah but the "L' sahpe has been turned 180 degrees heh!

Well the reason why it looks like this is for the Internal CrossFire connectors so that AMD/ATi didn't have to change that feature's design

@ MrFrossy

Yeah probably

@ Everyone

Here a nice pic of the MSI GeForce 8800 Ultra and the MSI Radeon HD2900XT and a nice comparrison also heh!


The HS2900XT without the cooler


And some nice pics of Ruby man she's hot !


Here a new slide of the layout structure of the R600 VPU