But it’s also interesting that Level1 has never done something with PC Perspective, for which their offices are really close to where Level1 is based out of.
Steve, @wendell and Ryan Shrout would be the best trio the computing tech news industry has seen in a long time.
This card wouldn’t make a difference in SC. The live universe FPS is limited by server performance. I’m in the first wave of PTU testers for latest build. My 1080Ti rarely ever goes 50% utilization even when on the rare occasions when I’m on a mostly empty server and can hit 60 FPS.
I’m really disappointed in nvidia if thats really meant to be a science card and they aren’t advertising it as such.
Its good that they are releasing volta [fucking finally] to the general public but… I mean come on, did they have to make it look like every other gamerBS card they shovel out? How the hell is that thing going to keep cool?
They would make a great trio! However, PCPER, has business ties with, TWiT. Pretty sure the fat cats would want a piece of GN and L1 to let that happen
I thought maybe it was just direct reuse of the 1080ti cooler painted gold, which would be fine in my eyes for some reason. Using old stock or not having to design and tool a new shape one, being economical and scraping every last penny.
But no they are advertising it as part of the design points on the card, it is vapour chamber and copper heatsink which is pretty nice, better than copper heatpipes and ALU fins. So they had to design new coolers any way, so why go with the same batmobile shape kids toy cooler and make it gaudy gold on purpose instead of designing an all performance orientated cooler. Form over function, and if your aim is AI you don’t care about looks you will likely never see the cards any way. Not like on a gamers PC where looks help sell cards. That is pretty stupid.
Fairly sure the reference 1080 Ti and current Titan X lineup all use the vapor chamber cooler as well. They just reused those it seems.
Also people Are gonna buy it regardless. The cooler doesn’t matter so they can save a few bucks and just put a shitty one on it. Besides it cools adequately just is loud which isn’t really a big issue for the demographic buying this
Okay then it fulflis my first idea then and that fine. Save the cash if you all ready have it and it works. Like you say they don’t care about the noise. If it does the work then that’s fine, just a little odd looking for the use case.
Except you goatrope idiot gamers to dump money on the wrong product because they don’t know any better when a Vega 128 or whatever the next *70 card is.