ExPreview has the information on a new PCB from NVidia with some interesting improvement at the very-technical level, as well as some “consumer” information like the addition of HDMI out.
According to the P897 design plan that NVIDIA sends its partners, it uses 4/6 phase NVVDD power solution ADP4100. It changes FBVDDQ power solution from 2-phase to single phase. And the MOSFET package has been changed from LFPAK to DPAK to save cost. Another noticeable change is the PCB layer decreases from 10 to 8. The length of PCB keeps unchanged, while the height of it is reduced by 1.5cm. In order to cut cost further, they will change DVI connector, crystal and probably change BIOS Rom from 1M to 512K.
But for the GT200 and NVIO2 chip, you might mistake GeForce GTX260 of P897 PCB design for GeForce 9800GTX+ (as they look so similar). Compared with P654 design, P897 GeForce GTX260 is expected to save cost of $10 to $15, which will undoubtedly improve its competitiveness. According to our source, this product will be available in the third week of this month.
via GeForce GTX260 Coming With New PCB Design to Cut Cost – Expreview.com.
