In the second half of last year, GeForce GTX 260 graphics card is fairly lost in value during the competition with Radeon HD 4870 and turned into a pretty attractive product, very advantageous in terms of price and performance. To preserve and build on the success of the product the company NVIDIA has taken a number of effective measures. In the early autumn of last year has accelerated version of GeForce GTX 260 with 216 stream pipelines. Well, closer to the winter began a gradual transition to 55-nm version of the graphic chip GT200, is also known as GT200b or GT206. Simultaneously, the accelerator was to reduce the costs of the printed circuit board with a lightweight design and slightly alleviate the cooling system. The increase in computing power, of course, raised the status on the GeForce GTX 260 Radeon HD 4870 and the positive impact on the level of sales. Here is an attempt to reduce production costs, apparently, did not bring the expected effect. The reason for this assumption was the information from the Chinese site Expreview.com on a regular update of design printed circuit board. So, soon will be another version of GeForce GTX 260 with a simple and cheap board, which replaced the code from P654 to P897. Recall that for the very first version of the accelerator was used on expensive 14-ply board with an index of P651. It is also used for the production of the leader of the recent past - GeForce GTX 280. The transition from the version of P651 to P654 board has rid itself of the four layers. According to Chinese sources, the third generation design provides for the loss of two more layers. Of the other changes made by engineers in the design of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, it should be noted refined food scheme, which is now headed by a pulse-width shestifazny stabilizer ADP4100. Its main objective is to provide a graphical kernel necessary nutrition (NVVDD). It is also known that the two power channels of video (FBVDDQ) is now only one remains. Field-effect transistors in the package LFPAK replaced by a similar force elements in cheaper housing type DPAK. The capacity of flash memory chips to store the BIOS will decrease by half. In addition, the metal frame will disappear around the graphic chip, introduced in the previous version of the design with an index of P654. It is also reported that there will be a more inexpensive connectors DVI. Video length remain the same, but the 15 mm will change its height. As we have seen, the main aim of the next transfer GeForce GTX 260 to the printed circuit board with the new design is the desire to further reduce the cost of the accelerator. Of course, it will improve profitability and provide additional flexibility in the price war with chief rival products. According to the staff of the site Expreview.com, the introduction of a new printed circuit board allows NVIDIA partners to save in the production of each card from $ 10 to $ 15. In conclusion, the Chinese source said that an updated GeForce GTX 260 accelerator should appear in computer stores in the second half of this month. In addition, we offer several photographs of the holders of the new design - the production of local graphics company Colorful, who will brand the series iGame.
