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'SLI On A Stick' Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-one-hot-stick dept.

Bender writes "What would happen if you took NVIDIA's multi-GPU teaming capability, SLI, and stuck it onto a single graphics card? Probably something like the GeForce 7950 GX2, a 'single' video card with dual printed circuit boards, dual graphics processors, dual 512MB memory banks, and nearly twice the performance of any other 'single' video card. Add two of these to a system, and you've got the truly extreme possibility of Quad SLI. We've seen early versions of these things benchmarked before, but the latest revision of this card is smaller, draws less power than a single-GPU Radeon X1900 XTX, and is now selling to the public."

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  1. what would be the tempareture like? by ketamine-bp · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i wonder

  2. Weight by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't snap off your PCI slot. Soon, we'll see modder cases with rails for support the front of the cards.

    Or maybe, just maybe, old-school lay-down cases will come back in style.

    --
    I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
  3. Bleugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not the only one that thinks 'great, just what we need' am I? I only just upgraded my graphics recently from a 5900-series to a reasonably priced 7600-series, and since doing so reviews of CrossFire[sic?] and SLI keep popping up, and now quad- is appearing. This time next year can I expect my graphics card to not even be considered minimum-spec to run new games on the PC, yet are going to be on the Xbox360 and PS3 running just fine?

    Who truly honestly needs this much horsepower for personal use? Seems like a case of making the product long before any real demand for it actually exists.