Back from CeBIT 2003 Ace's Hardware's Brian Neal fed his readers with some small tidbits of news that uncover that Nvidia will probably refresh their nForce series with a FX 5200 installment and that Nvidia assumes that graphics card's eating up to 120W is what enthusiasts will plug into their systems. I would need a new PSU for such a beast. Incorporating a GF4 Ti engine was almost impossible, because it was too big to be economically feasable. Socketed GPU's on the motherboard where also a nice idea, but impossible due to space constraints, trace lenghts for the memory, and fact MB's usually only have 4 layers, as opposed to the 12(?) layers an FX Ultra requires. Expect 120+W (!) GPUs to appear in the near future. Though nVidia was actively researching SOI and Germanium oxide (?) to reduce power requirements, he didnt expect it any time soon, saying the graphics market changes too fast to warrant that sort of investments for now. So nVidia was concentrating on cooling solution to be able to use that sort of power-hogs.

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