Geforce GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition has launched
Over the weekend, we had the privilege to head over to
Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California with an invitation to Nvidia and EVGA’s exclusive Halloween
Launch Party event.
Upon arriving in San Jose by Amtrak, we took a quick second
look over the itinerary while taking a taxi to Nvidia’s campus for a better
understanding of what we could expect from the party. Rest assured, the entire
experience was very positive and came out to be exactly what had been written in
the invitation. We arrived an hour early and stood in line with two other
ardent enthusiasts whom we conversed with about past Nvidia events, including
the splendid NVISION 2008. A friend decided that his patience was up with
waiting for Fermi to release, so he decided to
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Fermi GPU while we stood around and watched Nvidia engineers walk in and
out of the building, smiling covertly at us.
The line grew larger, and we eventually walked into the
building, ten at a time, where a photographer took our pictures in 3D with the recently
released
Fujifilm
FinePix REAL 3D W1. Upon entering the main hall, the entire right side of the
room was filled with a plethora of 3D monitors connected to mid-tower PCs
equipped with EVGA’s latest and greatest surprise. In addition, there was a 3D theater
to enjoy the latest games and movies in Nvidia Stereoscopic 3D with active
shutter glasses. As far as food was concerned, the companies ordered giant
amounts of pizza, drinks and desert for everyone. Our friend ApSykesThewolf
from the EVGA Forums was kind enough to create a video montage of some
.
After everyone had stuffed their faces with pizza for a while,
our friend Tom Petersen, Nvidia Director of Technical Marketing, came out and
hosted a Halloween costume contest for the numbered candidates who were
audacious enough to dress up at a gamer party. Our impatient Fermi-loving
friend decided to try out for the outfit. Video footage can be found
. Meanwhile, our
other significant portion of the crowd involved of a contest of gamers battling
for the top three highest scores in Batman: Arkham Asylum on the aforementioned
PC systems. The top three winners would expect to win the top secret, EVGA
exclusive graphics card, which we will now disclose.
During Nvidia and EVGA's Halloween Launch Party 2009, EVGA
launched its exclusive
GeForce
GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition graphics card (
012-P3-1178-AR),
marking the first time in history that two distinct Nvidia GPUs have been
implemented on a single-PCB design. Yes, we know the name EVGA Geforce GTX 275
CO-OP PhysX Edition sounds like a mouthful, but it is important to note the
significance of this card as a milestone in relation to the broad spectrum of
GPU history. This card effectively combines the power of an Nvidia 55nm GT200b
for graphics rendering with the power of an Nvidia 55nm G92b for PhysX
rendering, all enclosed within a single convenient GPU model. Our friend Tom
Petersen at Nvidia and Jacob Freeman, Product Manager at EVGA verbally
demonstrated the technical specifications of the new card which we recorded: