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Gigabyte's Dual-GPU Graphics Card
kamerononfire writes "Tom's Hardware has an article on a new dual-GPU graphics card, to be released Friday, by Giga-byte: "According to sources, the SLI card will lift current 3DMark2003 record revels by a significant margin while being priced lower than ATI's and Nvidia's single-GPU high-end cards.""
- Take the basic single GPU nVidia 6600 PCB
- Lay down two on the same PCB with two GPUs
- Link them together with a PCI Express switch
- Reverse engineer the card bridge that nVidia is selling for SLI and connect whatever control signals are required as traces on the PCB.
It seems they can do this for a signficantly lower price than you can build two single cards.The point is that if nVidia SLI is working under Linux, then this should too.
I bought my dual GPU 3DFx Voodoo5 around this time 4 years ago. . . and then the company was bought, support disappeared, and my fancy video card became worthless even quicker than it should have . . . I don't recollect seeing another 'dual gpu video card that will slay the market' announcement since . . .
lies, damn lies, benchmarks,... and press releases.
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Oh I see that these latest cards are finally taking the modder's advice and adding integrated blue LEDs, for that extra burst of raw rendering power.
I know that people are cutting holes in their cases so people can admire their wiring, but I'd like to pay a bit less and save the R&D costs on the appearance-enhancing design. Plus, if this is a budget card, will appearance matter as much? It's like putting nice rims on a Yugo, I see the point but you're not fooling anyone.
Bored to see grapix card benchmarks ...
... themes... game engines ... font engines... font... need to be with display.
Tell me when a CRT and LCD makers start to include this grapix stuff into their display.
All those windowing kits
What i am saying is... just move my graphix card out-of my pc and bring in some standard... so that i can connect my computer to any 'standard' display... let it be cell phone... gel phone... huge projector... tv or car dash board display..
GPU is not a marketing term, it's a technical term. Just because Nvidia came up with the term that ATI doesn't use doesn't make it any less technical a label than using RAM to describe random-access memory and ROM to describe read only-memory.
So that you can put two of them together in SLI mode.
I have to wonder if this card won't just melt itself into a puddle of goo on my mobo. Even with two fans (I assume one on each GPU), won't this sucker get REALY HOT? And if it doesn't melt, how reliable will it be? Can it stand up to 12 hours of gaming in a crowded basement? Inquiring minds want to know.
"3DFX died not because of SLI, but because they put all the R&D funding toward anti-aliasing low resolution (640x480, 800x600) graphics."
That was only one of their mistakes. The other two were;
* Insistance that 16bit graphics were "all games require", (640K RAM anyone?) and their subsequent dogged refusual to offer 32bit cards. This allowed nVidia to leapfrog them and take a huge market lead, from which they never recovered.
* Attempted to force the market into adopting their own proprietary standard by refusing to offer proper support for anything other than their own Glide API.
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What you're referring to isn't the fault of the Rage Fury MAXX, it's just plain old ATI. They can't write drivers. I also had similar trouble, but then, I've had it with half the ATI cards I've installed in the last 10 years.
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