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9800 GX2 Cebit Pics.

I can see it being around £380-£400, possibly more with the now standard first day bend over pricing system most etailers seem to employ.
 
If it's much over 350 then it's over priced and pointless. 340 or even less will get you 2 8800gt's and an sli board and 240 will get you a 3870x2. 350 plus and it has to hammer the x2 into next week.
 
Concorde Rules said:
Its two 8800GTS G92(?) in a single PCI-E slot package. As SLi is less efficient than CF (what I've seen) then the X2 should in theory, win.
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uh.... no

Benchmarks put 2x GT or GTS above the X2...

Anyway, back to something to do with the actual card this thread is all about, do you have to have an SLI enabled mobo (i.e. nforce and 2x pcie) to be able to use this card? Because if it works in single slot mobos, or in non nforce boards, then it cant be using (strict) SLI technology anyway.....
 
Skeeter said:
uh.... no

Benchmarks put 2x GT or GTS above the X2...

Anyway, back to something to do with the actual card this thread is all about, do you have to have an SLI enabled mobo (i.e. nforce and 2x pcie) to be able to use this card? Because if it works in single slot mobos, or in non nforce boards, then it cant be using (strict) SLI technology anyway.....
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If it's like the 7950 gx2 then it will use an internal PCIE bribge chip, so it should work on any PCIE bus but as with any new hardwere a BIOS update might be needed.
 
jigger said:
If it's like the 7950 gx2 then it will use an internal PCIE bribge chip, so it should work on any PCIE bus but as with any new hardwere a BIOS update might be needed.
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So this means that it will all be handled onboard, and wont require an SLI mobo...

So compairing it to 2x GTS in SLI is pointless as its using different technology..... lol :)
 
Skeeter said:
So this means that it will all be handled onboard, and wont require an SLI mobo...

So compairing it to 2x GTS in SLI is pointless as its using different technology..... lol :)
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No its not the sli bridge is on the card not on the mobo.

Its the same technology.

And needs SLI profies to work.

If the game does not support SLI then it will work as fast as a single GTS
 
If your using 2 cards in SLI then the mobo has to support SLI

If this card doesnt require an SLI mobo, then it cant be using strictly the same technolgoy.

What im trying to say is that using an onboard bridge chip that means the rest of the machine sees a single card may negate the short comings of using SLI on 2 cards... therefore improving scaling etc.... i.e. if this is just 2 GTS's strapped together, it may still offer better performance than 2 SLIed GTS's....

Just a theory...
 
Skeeter said:
If your using 2 cards in SLI then the mobo has to support SLI

If this card doesnt require an SLI mobo, then it cant be using strictly the same technolgoy.

What im trying to say is that using an onboard bridge chip that means the rest of the machine sees a single card may negate the short comings of using SLI on 2 cards... therefore improving scaling etc....

Just a theory...
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No it doesn't..

I ran two 7900GTX's in Sli on a Crossfire mobo.

This card works exactly the same as the 7950 GX2
 
Skeeter said:
So this means that it will all be handled onboard, and wont require an SLI mobo...

So compairing it to 2x GTS in SLI is pointless as its using different technology..... lol :)
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Why is comparing the same card combination pointless?
 
Concorde Rules said:
Faster? And where exactly did you get that information from?

Its two 8800GTS G92(?) in a single PCI-E slot package. As SLi is less efficient than CF (what I've seen) then the X2 should in theory, win.
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I dont normally reply to such stupid comments, but if two 8800 GT's in SLI are faster than the ATI X2, then how are two G92 GTS's strapped together going to be slower than the X2?
 
MR.B said:
I dont normally reply to such stupid comments, but if two 8800 GT's in SLI are faster than the ATI X2, then how are two G92 GTS's strapped together going to be slower than the X2?
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The gx2 is 2 gt's together is it not? Also the ram or core speed on the gx2 is slower than the single cards, doubt it'll make it that much slower though.
 
Gerard said:
The gx2 is 2 gt's together is it not? Also the ram or core speed on the gx2 is slower than the single cards, doubt it'll make it that much slower though.
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Gx2 is two downclocked GTS's.

(600 core instead of 650, but faster mem).
 
willhub said:
Why is comparing the same card combination pointless?
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im obvioudly failing to explain what I though was a simple idea...

If you run SLI on 2 cards, then the mobo etc comes into play, and as far as im aware the second PCIe port doesnt run at full 16x. If you have 2 cards in 1 slot using an onboard chip to comunicate between them, the mobo doesnt come into play. There is an obvious difference in how the 2 chips comunicate...

There is every possibility this could have positive effects, negative effects, or no effect at all!

Its a theory, I have no proof, but then you also have no proof that im wrong!

easyrider said:
This card works exactly the same as the 7950 GX2
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Ahh, so you have one then.... cool. Get some benchies up!!
 
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