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8950GX2 Speculation!

Soldato
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38347

taken from the inquirer

WE HAD AN interesting revelation while wondering the halls of Planet Reseller, here in Hanover.

Sadly, the booth we stumbled across was un-manned but on it a company named AlphaCooling was showing a water-cooler for an upcoming dual-PCB GeForce 8950 GX2.

This just must be the thinnest water-block we have seen in ages

As you can see, the cooler has all the right ingredients to cool down the dual-PCB G80 - the block encompasses the NVIO1 chip, GPU, memory chips and ends up at power regulator.

We estimate that the block is some four to five millimetres thick, which is nothing compared to other water-cooling blocks we have seen before. Makes you wonder what's flowing inside the block...

Back of the product needs some lapping, but other AlphaCool blocks are lapped to high shine. Obviously a prototype, but take a look - everything is covered: GPU, RAM, NVIO1, PWM...

Charlie already wrote a piece about mobile 8800 being shown up at Clevo's booth, so it looks that we are set for a re-run of 7950GX2, which featured two mobile G71 chips (G71M). Now, it seems that the new revision of G80 is going out for a spin.

The 7950GX2 is by far the most comfortable multi-GPU arrangemnet on the market, with invisible SLI thanks to a certain bridge chip. Looks like the 8950GX2 follows a similar vein, just what owners of 24- or 30-inch monitors want.


So basically what we have is a waterblock which looks like it could be for a 8950gx2, interesting indeed, merely speculation at this time however!

*EDIT* Click the link for the pics
 
Looks very interesting.

Alphaglasswindow.jpg


AlphaCoolfor8950ornot.jpg
 
Thanks for posting the pics infact :P makes it easier....but since it didnt have a description or anything it does make it interesting indeed!

an 8950GX2 would be really cool, probably with 2x8800GTS's i would assume
 
i dont like nvidias way of putting 2 gpus on one card mainly becuase of sli not giveing that much of a performance leap 30% tops
 
jaykay said:
i dont like nvidias way of putting 2 gpus on one card mainly becuase of sli not giveing that much of a performance leap 30% tops

... completely and utterly wrong... except for a few early days with the 6800 cards and old drivers, all 7x00 and 8x00 series cards in SLI will give atleast a 60% performance boost in most games and benchmarks and double the performance of one card in the greater many. Anyone banging SLI either doesn't have the technical knowledge to set it up properly or hasn't tried it since the early attempts with the 6800.
 
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