| And you thought that the x850 was good... [message #127158] |
Fri, 17 December 2004 16:14  |
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rm5248
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Check out what's just about to be released... A video card with dual processors, and a motherboard that supports Athalon 64's for less then an x850 or a 6800. 
Link.
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| And you thought that the x850 was good... [message #127190] |
Fri, 17 December 2004 17:54  |
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rm5248
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Looks like an oversized peice of shit to me.
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It's oversized because it uses one slot, unlike the x850 and the 6800 (they use 2 slots) and is cheaper and comes with more....
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| And you thought that the x850 was good... [message #127336] |
Sat, 18 December 2004 13:13 |
ADM
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This card with 2 GPUs on one card requires SLi to operate both GPUs.
An ATi employee on Rage3d stated that ATi have considered 2 GPUs on 1 card but it wasn't worth the investment. They could gain alot more performance from 2 seperate cards linked with SLi, rather than a single card with SLi. 2 seperate cards can operate cooler (allowing for better clocking, or overclocking) and the memory can be used more extensively with 2 cards rather than 1, for obvious reasons.
I still like the idea of 2 GPUs on one card, saves costs for user and increases performance over 1 independent card - which is never a bad thing with games like Half Life 2 and Doom III out.
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| And you thought that the x850 was good... [message #127373] |
Sat, 18 December 2004 15:21 |
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| ADM |
This card with 2 GPUs on one card requires SLi to operate both GPUs.
An ATi employee on Rage3d stated that ATi have considered 2 GPUs on 1 card but it wasn't worth the investment. They could gain alot more performance from 2 seperate cards linked with SLi, rather than a single card with SLi. 2 seperate cards can operate cooler (allowing for better clocking, or overclocking) and the memory can be used more extensively with 2 cards rather than 1, for obvious reasons.
I still like the idea of 2 GPUs on one card, saves costs for user and increases performance over 1 independent card - which is never a bad thing with games like Half Life 2 and Doom III out.
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But can two of these double GPU cards run together like the single GPU cards?
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| And you thought that the x850 was good... [message #127504] |
Sun, 19 December 2004 04:25 |
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I was being hypercritical when using the x850 as an example. The next lot of ATi cards will hopefully have SLi, so they will be the flagship for my example. At current state, no ATi card can be linked with SLi as ATi hasn't yet adopted the technology to do so; only nVidia have.
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| And you thought that the x850 was good... [message #127555] |
Sun, 19 December 2004 11:51 |
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Nothing new per se. Others have done this in the past, and one of the more (in)famous attempts was ATI's Rage Fury MAXX:
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/19991230/
As far as this dual 6600GT in particular, synthetic benchmarks are nice and dandy -- I'd like to see how it actually performs in-game before making a judgement.
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