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9800 GX2 Cebit Pics.

Problem is this is essentially still SLi, just on a single slot. well at least thats what i have come to believe!

Not really. My point is that SLI'ing 2 8800GTX's is going to be faster sure, but to do that you have to buy a mobo capable of SLI, maybe a new psu, and spend a lot of time making them work. Most people dont want that hassle and want a single slot card, most people dont give a **** if it has 2 pcb's or 2 gpu's or 20, as long as they can simply slot it in to their existing system and have it work stright out of the box.

This card will hopefully do that, and give decent performance to boot.
 
I agree with you there, having to mess about with installing two cards instead of one and setting it all up will be a messy business for those who simply want a plug and play bit of hardware.

But then again the only ones needing that sort of power will be tech savvy and wont mind taking the time and the money to set it up.

Does anyone know though if the cards will need setting up with SLi?
 
I agree with you there, having to mess about with installing two cards instead of one and setting it all up will be a messy business for those who simply want a plug and play bit of hardware.

But then again the only ones needing that sort of power will be tech savvy and wont mind taking the time and the money to set it up.

Does anyone know though if the cards will need setting up with SLi?

These cards will, they run in SLi.
 
oh i see, well thats all you would need to do with the 9800GX2
with 2 seperate cards for SLI, put one in each PCIE slot, connect the them with the bridge. enabled in drivers and reboot
 
some cases have the grooves at the front to hold the other end of PCBs, all servers do I know so they can hold those monster SCSI cards, and my old coolermaster case has them. If this card is long enough it should be able to use those.
 
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