Intel's prismaskine fungerer præcist som et atomur og allerede idag, den 17. juli år 2000, kan vi se, at gårsdagens prisnedsættelser allerede er aktuelle.

P3 750 Mhz er faldet med kr. 800 og koster nu ca. kr. 2600.
P3 800 Mhz er faldet med kr. 1000 og koster nu kr. 2995 (kostede kr. 4000 i lørdags).
P3 850 Mhz er faldet ca. 1500-2000 og koster nu kr. 4500.

Dog udkommer Intel 3. generations Coppermine-kerne (cC0, 1. generation hed cA2, 2. generation hed cB0) ikke før 14. august og er næppe i handlen før oktober. Så ønsker du at overclocke din luftkølede 800 Mhz+ til mindst 1 GHz uden problemer, så er tiden endnu ikke moden. Desuden kommer de næste prisnedsættelser i september (forvent derfor ikke yderligere prisnedsættelser inden da).

Kilde:

www.edbpriser.dk
 

INFO OM 3DFX RAMPAGE

Hmmmm, jeg fandt lige lidt Info om 3dfx Rampage, som teoretisk set udkommer til december (mine fremhævelser med fed):

0,18um productive process
Scalability similar to VSA 100
4 pipelines with 1pixel/1texel
200-250MHZ core clock
All the VSA 100 features plus:
Advanced T-buffer ( probably the ability to perform 8 samples effects)
All the pixel shading functions supported by DX8.0
Hardware higher order surfaces or curved surfaces
Photorealisitic rendering
New texture combine modes
Ability to do the quadtexturing
200 MHZ DDR memory
Nothing more is known about the rumored voxel unit and the supposed improved version of the FXT1 texture compression.
Nothing also about the Photoshop effects in hardware.
Features of the T&L unit ( supposed Sage):
Very little in known about this except that it will be handle 75 million polygons and up to 25 lighing surces in hardware.
Obviously also the T&L unit will be SCALABLE such as the Rampage.
Configurations and scalability:
Also this new generation from 3dfx will be a multi chip solution. There are three possible configurations:
Entry level configuration composed by 1 chip Rampage and 1 T&L unit.As you see the minimum is 2 chips.
800Mpixel fill rate ( core clock at 200MHZ)
75 millions of polygons
6,4GB/sec memory bandwith
Middle level configuration with 2 Rampage and 2 T&L unit . 4 chips at all.
1,6Gigpixel fill rate ( core clock at 200MHZ)
150 millions of polygons
12,8Gb/sec memory bandwith
High end configuration ( similar to the actual V5 6000) with 4 Rampage chips e 4 T&L unit.
8 chips at all for amzing specs!!....
3,2Gigapixels fill rate ( core clock at 200MHZ) (GF2 kan klare 0,8 - GF3 estimeres til 1,6)
300 millions polygons (GF2 kan klare 25 mill., GF3 kan klare 60 mill.)
25,6GB/sec memory bandwith (GF2 kan klare 5,3)
The chip will be officially announced at ECTS in September. According to 3dfx it should be available in December ( if everything goes for better...)

HVIS ovenstående passer, SÅ vil high-end kortet med 4 Rampage chips vel være et monster uden lige og et kort, hvis levetid nok vil ækvivalere voodoo1 og voodoo2 SLI..... meeeeeen nu må vi vel lige klappe hesten, så der ikke går alt for megen ild i piben...

Kilde:

http://www.tredfx.com/ (leaked 3dfx specs - italiensk 3dfx-site)

- Rune