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Dual GeForce 7800 GT SLI Single Card Performance
Maximus writes "Asus is this first board partner out of the block with a single board, dual
GPU design based on NVIDIA's
GeForce 7800 GT graphics chip. The
Asus Extreme N7800 GT DUAL essentially takes a dual board SLI setup and
packs it all into a single PCI Express based card.
HotHardware has a performance preview posted that shows this card can even
compete in some cases with an GeForce 7800 GTX SLI setup, due to improved
latency characteristics with respect to inter-GPU transactions, that are
inherent to a single board design . This board is a bit pricey though for
sure so only gaming speed freaks need apply."
"This board is a bit pricey though for sure so only gaming speed freaks need apply."
I'm really, really curious about the high-end sales for ATI and nVidia. What kind of people honestly go out and spend almost 1,000$ USD on a card every year? What benefits are there? Despite the fact that these hot, sexy cards come out, I don't see any real push to get software out that uses them. Windows Vista isn't out. Linux still doesn't have X rendering done via OpenGL. Mac OS X is the only OS that uses 3D everywhere.
Beyond that, what games push the card? WoW? Doom 3? Half-life 2? Add in Far Cry and UT, and that's pretty much it for 3D games. If you spend that same amount of money on any console, you can buy more than double those number of games.
What niche does this represent? I'm really curious as to the people that buy this kind of stuff.
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