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ASUS Designs Monster Dual-GTX285 4GB Graphics Card

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nvidia-get-back-in-the-kitchen-and-bake-me-a-gpu dept.

suraj.sun writes to mention that ASUS has just designed their own monster graphics card based on the GeForce GTX 295. While the card retains the GeForce GTX 295 name, same device ID, and remains compatible with existing NVIDIA drivers, ASUS has made a couple of modifications to call its own. "the company used two G200-350-B3 graphics processors, the same ones that make the GeForce GTX 285. The GPUs have all the 240 shader processors enabled, and also have the complete 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface enabled. This dual-PCB monstrosity holds 32 memory chips, and 4 GB of total memory (each GPU accesses 2 GB of it). Apart from these, each GPU system uses the same exact clock speeds as the GeForce GTX 285: 648/1476/2400 MHz (core/shader/memory)."

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  1. GDDR3 by LanMan04 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bleh on the GDDR3. Radeon HD 4870 I just picked up for $200 has GDDR5, just smoking fast memory.

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  2. Re:I wonder... by mkaushik · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No graphics card maps the entire framebuffer into the physical address space, even on 64-bit OSs. I'll just use up a few 10s of MBs for BAR0, a few more for BAR1, and so on. The driver will manage all the framebuffer memory for you, all the client has to do is call the equivalent of malloc().

  3. Re:I feel nerd-emasculated by hairyfeet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not nerdy, it's poser. it is no different than those supercharger ricers you see doctor's kids driving, that they have tricked all to hell on daddy's credit card, and then wrap around a telephone pole. Anybody with the bucks to buy this thing has more bucks than brains and probably won't know what to do with it, other than brag about his FPS in Crysis.

    Nerdy is like my former boss, when he found it would take 2 PSUs to power all the SCSI drives he had. He stripped two towers down to the frames, put the mobo and SCSI cards in one along with half the drives, mounted the other half along with a second PSU in the second skeleton, picked them both up and went to the auto body shop down the street and had them spot weld those bitches together. It was fugly as hell but gave him an insane(at the time) 500Gb of nice fast SCSI storage on the LAN. He had the drivers for pretty much every piece of hardware built for over a decade at his fingertips. Now THAT was nerdy!

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