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  1. 06-10-2003, 09:05 PM #1
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    Exclamation Nvidia Pokes Fun at Themselves

    http://www.ganksta.com/ISEF/Web/cooling_fan.wmv

    Nvidia really made fun of their FlowFX cooling system on the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra. In the end of the video it says "NVIDIA offers a special thanks to our enthusiasts for their creative ideas." It's supposively a video of what Nvidia was thinking when they developed the FlowFX cooling system and in retrospect, making fun of themselves for the mistake.

    You need Windows Media 9 codecs to view it. Go here to download the codecs if you don't have them: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../WM9Codecs.exe

    Oh yeah, it's a ~9.7MB file so people on narrowband will need to wait a bit.
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    A bit late with that post. Someone posted that a month ago.
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    Wow, am I behind the times . Last month at this time I was up at Cleveland for an Intel event at the Cleveland Convention Center.

    Sorry about the double-post.

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    Originally posted by Kwonger
    A bit late with that post. Someone posted that a month ago.
    Someone did?
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    Jagojago12, is that a picture of you in your avatar? (I've always wondered that.)
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    Yep, that's me last year at the Galt House at Louisville, KY. They handed out free bats at the Intel ISEF, so I made my best Max Payne impression .
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    Originally posted by Ashpool


    Someone did?
    Yep. Forgot who.

    Hey jagojago12, does that pic of yours say max hu? Is your last name Hu? Cause mine is.
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    Originally posted by jagojago12
    Yep, that's me last year at the Galt House at Louisville, KY. They handed out free bats at the Intel ISEF, so I made my best Max Payne impression .
    Cool, I thought those were breadsticks...lol
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    Originally posted by soupnazi


    Cool, I thought those were breadsticks...lol
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    Originally posted by Kwonger


    Yep. Forgot who.

    Hey jagojago12, does that pic of yours say max hu? Is your last name Hu? Cause mine is.
    Yep, my last name is also hu. Are you my long lost brother?
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    Originally posted by soupnazi


    Cool, I thought those were breadsticks...lol


    Do those look like breadsticks?

    Oh yeah, to keep this on topic, I hear the NV30's FlowFX was incorrectly engineered. I forgot the details but it had to do with how the fan wasn't mounted right so it caused more noise than necessary, or something like that.
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    Originally posted by jagojago12


    Yep, my last name is also hu. Are you my long lost brother?
    Hehe

    Maybe.
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    ROFL!!!!!

    I thought it was breadsticks too!!!!!!!

    But yeah it was posted a few weeks ago... It was funny then and it is still funny

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