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Zotac Designs GeForce GTX 460 X2 Graphics Card
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According to FUD (sry!)
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/20632-zotac-dual-gtx-460-board-spotted
It's too late to the party and they doubt it will be available in high numbers. Although on the plus side, they do mention the possibility of a 4gb version.
Still, it's a nice looking card!
Does anyone think this could compete with a 6990 or is it up against the 6970?
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/20632-zotac-dual-gtx-460-board-spotted
It's too late to the party and they doubt it will be available in high numbers. Although on the plus side, they do mention the possibility of a 4gb version.
Still, it's a nice looking card!
Does anyone think this could compete with a 6990 or is it up against the 6970?
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Wont be anywhere close to a 5970 nevermind a 6990
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So the question is.... will it beat a 6970? Not long now until we find out. I guess if it looses that battle (i.e. 460sli V 6970) then it will never see the light of day?
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Just a shame it won't scale as well as 6870/50 xfire...
Just a shame it won't scale as well as 6870/50 xfire...
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The question is will we ever see it at retail, I'm not even confidant a novelty card like this will even make it over here.
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Potentially interesting but honestly, I really don't get these too late to the game cards, even Fud managed to point it out.
THe problem is the difference between a decent dual slot board and a single slot board is very very little. Most people with even the slightest idea of going sli/xfire will pay the extra £5 upfront, when the 460gtx launched, you can just get 2 straight away with less cooling problems, most likely better overclocking, and months and months ahead.
THE 4870x2 and 5970 launched close enough to the single gpu cards that it was a genuine choice, the 4870x2 also offered a pretty massive saving and the 1gb single gpu version wasn't out before it. So 512mb 4870 £180-200, 4870x2, 2gb version £330 on launch, huge saving really.
It would really need to offer a saving over 2 single gtx's to be worth it at this stage. A 4gb version would be pointless, a thread only yesterday with a link to another 1gb vs 2gb review showed the majority of situations where 2gb gave appreciable performance differences also gave truly awful performance for either £600/900 setups, IE, they are settings almost no one on earth would use no matter their setup or money to achieve it. The 460gtx is significantly less powerful and that only gets worse at high res.
IE the cards will run out of power WAY before 2gb would make a difference.
The design is actually nice though, I can't stand the lack of use of spare space in most cases. Personally I'd be happy with a quite ridiculously big case with no issues, but theres SO many cases where length is an issue but theres plenty of spare space between the top of the card and the side of a case. I'd imagine the positioning of all the power circuitry at the top will make for easier/better cooling aswell.
THe problem is the difference between a decent dual slot board and a single slot board is very very little. Most people with even the slightest idea of going sli/xfire will pay the extra £5 upfront, when the 460gtx launched, you can just get 2 straight away with less cooling problems, most likely better overclocking, and months and months ahead.
THE 4870x2 and 5970 launched close enough to the single gpu cards that it was a genuine choice, the 4870x2 also offered a pretty massive saving and the 1gb single gpu version wasn't out before it. So 512mb 4870 £180-200, 4870x2, 2gb version £330 on launch, huge saving really.
It would really need to offer a saving over 2 single gtx's to be worth it at this stage. A 4gb version would be pointless, a thread only yesterday with a link to another 1gb vs 2gb review showed the majority of situations where 2gb gave appreciable performance differences also gave truly awful performance for either £600/900 setups, IE, they are settings almost no one on earth would use no matter their setup or money to achieve it. The 460gtx is significantly less powerful and that only gets worse at high res.
IE the cards will run out of power WAY before 2gb would make a difference.
The design is actually nice though, I can't stand the lack of use of spare space in most cases. Personally I'd be happy with a quite ridiculously big case with no issues, but theres SO many cases where length is an issue but theres plenty of spare space between the top of the card and the side of a case. I'd imagine the positioning of all the power circuitry at the top will make for easier/better cooling aswell.
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You call that madness.
What do you call this..
MSI GeForce GTX 480 Lightning
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/7804/powerg.jpg[/QUOTE]
lol. Nvidia really need to work on their power consumption :rolleyes:
lol. Nvidia really need to work on their power consumption
It's MSI's baby, not Nvidia's.
A little late to the game, it won't out perform ATI's new offerings but will cost more or net them a loss...
Nice idea...just a little slow off the mark
It's MSI modification to NVs design...they definately need to get the power down on their cards.
Nice idea...just a little slow off the mark
It's MSI modification to NVs design...they definately need to get the power down on their cards.
Who mentioned power, it can suck all the juice it wants as long as it gives me the performance I require.
MSI chose to put that many power connectors on for epeen more than anything else, it's not due to the 480 needing them because the thing does not even come clocked highly and by all account clocks no further than reference 480's.
MSI chose to put that many power connectors on for epeen more than anything else, it's not due to the 480 needing them because the thing does not even come clocked highly and by all account clocks no further than reference 480's.
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more power used = more heat
Heat being the main thing that holds tech back from higher speeds...power is an important factor and one that was pooly addressed in NVs current offerings (460 was a step in the right direction)
Decent cooler sorts that out, reference 480 cooler sucks a bit. 
Yeah GF100 like the juice but they perform great, I'm sure they will get it well down for Kepler.
Yeah GF100 like the juice but they perform great, I'm sure they will get it well down for Kepler.
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