ATI's Single-PCB Dual-GPU Plans

[Eliot]

Doubt anyone would take it over a x1900 considering its likely to cost over £100 more though.

i might because i have a wavmaster, and i dont think the ol' master can take the 1900's heat

 

[Gerard]

i might because i have a wavmaster, and i dont think the ol' master can take the 1900's heat

Don't see why not seeing as the card dumps the heat out the back of the case.

 

[vintage-x]

That thing is huge. I still think that the way to go will be a socket on the motherboard which you put a gpu on it (dont know the excat term) but unfortunatly thats looking like its a good 18 months or so away at least

 

[locutus12]

Yup 7950 is 2x GPU's on one card, its 2x 7900's, this is ATi's counter, 2x of their GPU's on one card, but they can only use mid range like x1600's as said, as the x1800's etc... have huge cooling etc...

lol, thats not one card, its 2 X 7900 bolted together using a connector bridge and channel to push the extra info through 1 PCI-E socket, its basically "poor mans SLI" a nice gimmick to get 2 Nvidia boards into single PCI-E systems

 

[Darkwave]

lol, thats not one card, its 2 X 7900 bolted together using a connector bridge and channel to push the extra info through 1 PCI-E socket, its basically "poor mans SLI" a nice gimmick to get 2 Nvidia boards into single PCI-E systems

See, this man knows the score.

 

[mrbios]

haha that cards so long that i think if i wanted to use that id have to remove the HDD bay from my case and put my hdds in the floppy drive bays, theres only a small gap as it is

 

[Darkwave]

haha that cards so long that i think if i wanted to use that id have to remove the HDD bay from my case and put my hdds in the floppy drive bays, theres only a small gap as it is

I'd have the same problem, I had to move my HDDs just so that I could use my X1800XT. I thought this was huge, but that "Gemini" card just takes the cake.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I would'nt believe anything about the x1950 as the slide thats been doing the rounds was an April fools joke, someone over at Elite******** made it, he can't believe everyone has taken it serious and its getting shown all around the world.

 

[S_D]

Guys, the RV570 is a 12 pipe, 36 shader unit job that runs at 625 MHz, so basically faster than today's X1900GT (which at 575MHz is in the same performance ballpark as the X1800XT and 7900GT, depending on the game of course). Having two of them on the same PCB would probably put it in the same performance bracket as the 7950GX2, so I wouldn't write it off yet! Don't get these chips confused with the X1600 chips, which have 128mbit memory controllers etc...

Simon

 

[Eliot]

Don't see why not seeing as the card dumps the heat out the back of the case.

believe me, the wavemaster has no existant airflow the olny real air im getting is from the blowhoel which i have set to blow inwards and the main issue is the back of the card, the backs get hot and its close to the cpu