nVidia 7950 GX2s @ OcUK!

[Goody_GTI]

Really? I think its a bit crap tbh.

Oh well, lets see what can be done for it this evening.

Agent.

sorry didnt mean excellent as in your having trouble with it

i just want to see some real benchmarks thats all

good luck sorting it out this evening

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Im awaiting reviews, if its as good as rumoured, then i could be heading back to Nvidia, as at £411 they are gona clean up, as that is an absolute stonking price for 2x 7900's.

 

[Agent WD40]

Im awaiting reviews, if its as good as rumoured, then i could be heading back to Nvidia, as at £411 they are gona clean up, as that is an absolute stonking price for 2x 7900's.

Well I'll do some bechies for ya.

If you were to read a review, what would you like to see?

Agent.

 

[speeduk]

Im awaiting reviews, if its as good as rumoured, then i could be heading back to Nvidia, as at £411 they are gona clean up, as that is an absolute stonking price for 2x 7900's.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/geforce_7950_gx2_preview/default.asp

Performs similar to 2x7900gt's in SLI. Bit of clockage and it will be pretty close to gtx.

 

[ob1]

So new even the drivers dont know what it is lol

So is this dual processor rather then dual core, I guess that makes quad sli is easier to do.

The latest beta nvidia drivers didnt seem as good as the normal revision to me. No ability to test overclocks that I could see anyway

 

[pastymuncher]

There's loads of reveiws out now. Take a look at this lot.

Firing Squad

PcPerspective

Tech Report

It's two cards joined together, one on top of the other but only uses one pci-e slot and is supposed to work in non sli motherboards. The lower card hits 90 degrees C though so you will need excellent ventilation.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Woah thanks guys, should keep me busy for a bit.

 

[FrankJH]

There's loads of reveiws out now. Take a look at this lot.

Firing Squad

PcPerspective

Tech Report

It's two cards joined together, one on top of the other but only uses one pci-e slot and is supposed to work in non sli motherboards. The lower card hits 90 degrees C though so you will need excellent ventilation.

Sizzzzzllllllleee - I just invested in a xfire mobo this weekend, the price of the GX2 is good if you dont already have a premium card, if you do its just a little too much imo - but well done to OCUK getting them so quickly

 

[speeduk]

It's two cards joined together, one on top of the other but only uses one pci-e slot and is supposed to work in non sli motherboards. The lower card hits 90 degrees C though so you will need excellent ventilation.

Firingsquad state that you need an SLI mobo to run the card.....

 

[pastymuncher]

Nvidia says otherwise, see here.

If you click on the PCperspective link to the full article and go to page 2 at the bottom of the page it also says it will work on non Sli boards. Here it is. under motherboard compatiability.

The Tech Report articles states the same as well, half way down page two.

 

[speeduk]

Nvidia says otherwise, see here.

If you click on the PCperspective link to the full article and go to page 2 at the bottom of the page it also says it will work on non Sli boards. Here it is. under motherboard compatiability.

The Tech Report articles states the same as well, half way down page two.

It will work yeah - but only one gpu so it will perform like a 7900GT for £400.

Edit hmm seems no one still really really knows wether they will work proper in a non sli mobo lol.

 

[Cooper]

Dont see the point of these when the DX10 G80 card is about 6 mths away...

If you have money to burn, fair enough, but lets face it, this is a very bad time to be upgrading ANY major component in your setup with all the changes coming in the next 6-12 mths.

 

[toxic]

man...im tempted allready!

Why do these companies continue to temp us with newer stuff all the time...its like every 3 months now!

But the benchmarks do look good....1.5 times the performance of my 1900XTX..hmmmm

 

[dillingerdan]

Edit hmm seems no one still really really knows wether they will work proper in a non sli mobo lol.

From The Tech Report review:

I should note, by the way, that running a GeForce 7950 GX2 does not require an NVIDIA SLI chipset or even an NVIDIA chipset at all. Intel-based mobos and the like are happily on the GX2's compatibility list.

 

[Gerard]

It actually works on an ati chipset mobo

Some of the boards on the list include Intel 925X and 955X based motherboards from Abit and Intel, lots of nForce4 SLI and standard motherboards for both the AMD and Intel platform, as well as the Asus A8R32-MVP motherboard based on the Radeon Xpress 3200 chipset. It is currently the only ATI-based chipset motherboard on the list, but NVIDIA expects more soon. If the list keeps growing and expanding as it has over the past two weeks, then I think we’ll find the GX2 will not have any major compatibility issues.

Suprised at that.

 

[toxic]

has NVidia fixed the problme they have with AA and HDR running at same time with these cards???

 

[Gerard]

has NVidia fixed the problme they have with AA and HDR running at same time with these cards???

Nope, its just the same graphics core as you get on a regular 7900 card though clocked slower.

 

[Vogon]

would seem a bit pointless needing an SLi mobo TBH, the idea would have been to have SLi performance from one card I would have thought ?
So these might rely on drivers for SLi support in games, rather than be noted as dual GPU boards ? hmmm seems a bit of an odd one IMO.

 

[Gerard]

would seem a bit pointless needing an SLi mobo TBH, the idea would have been to have SLi performance from one card I would have thought ?
So these might rely on drivers for SLi support in games, rather than be noted as dual GPU boards ? hmmm seems a bit of an odd one IMO.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/geforce_gx2_sbios/us.asp

 

[Nogimmix]

I've just had to send my 7900GT back to BFG to be replaced, I'm very tempted in buying one of these, must try to resist!!