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kleox64 said:Thats one big MF, now all we need is 1GB GDR3 on board.
And no you wont be able to use two of these in an SLI mobo as the two chips are connected via SLI on the PCB itself hence all 16 lanes would be in use allready (look at the pcb traces between the pci-e interface and the two 6800U cores, you can clearly see the 16 traces shared between them). Also the mobo will have to be SLI ready (similar setup to the gigabyte SLI combo). Asus please correct me if iam wrong.
kleox64 said:OK, but for someone to enable SLI (dual video cards or single dual GPU) wouldnt you need an SLI compatible mobo? Iam not exactly sure but ill read up on the gigabyte board.
ThomasE66 said:Not necessarily. If you have the slots it can be made to work. With a single card SLI solution, it's simply done at the driver level.
Blazemore said:I hate to see how much thats going to cost, Asus = $$$$$ and if there is a chance of two in SLI there goes the piggy bank. I can see it now, my second job standing beside old Roy as a Walmart greeter.
mashie said:It seems to be nearly 50% taller than a normal card yes.
Remember that vidocards have 12 to 16 layers of traces in the PCB, you won't see any except for the top layer. Mind the sticker "x-ray ok"
mashie said:If it was possible everyone would just use one layer of traces. With a 256bit memory bus for example you have 256 traces to deal with. And to jump between layers with traces cost more than staying on the same "dept". Say GPU 1 has to go down to layer 5 in order to get past the other signal traces, to move the signals up to the top layer and then back down to layer 5 for GPU 2 will cost a lot more than staying on layer 5 all the way. Also it might be preferred to have the signalling traces between two ground layers for less interference. As for manufacturing cost it isn't really a difference between making layer 1 or layer 7 since the PCBs are made as 16 0.1mm boards epoxied together. Plated holes has to be added for layer to layer connectivity, hence the added cost for layer jumping.
MAValpha said:Color me skeptical.
The PCB looks far too simple, starting with the apparent lack of power circuitry surrounding two PEG 6-pin power connectors. While I realize that KISS reigns supreme, I think this takes it a bit too far. I'm sure there is interest in such a product, but I think this is more the result of wishful thinking and a late-night PhotoShop session.
I might have believed that they borrowed this from NV48's more simplified power supply, but NV48 is too recent a product for them to have had time for this. Also, I would have expected two of these circuits given that a single AGP 6800Ultra requires Molexes on two separate chains.
It also looks like someone just copy/pasted two close-ups of a normal 6800PCB, since the heatsink tracings would suggest a normal NV40/45 heatsink shifted a few inches against a second heatsink, with no interaction between them.
Off-topic, I think it's interesting that Asus' 2x6600GT seems to mirror Gigabyte's 3D1 PCB, shown at Tom's. Did they collaborate? If so, why was Gigabyte's offering available so much sooner?
PCI Express cards don't use Molex, they use six-pin connectors (3x2). The card supposedly has two of them, the black boxes along the upper edge of the card.calchala said:i don't really think the card is authentic......it doesn't have any molex connectors on it...
justacow said:
mentok1982 said:Wow.
I am impressed.
Now I want a picture with the heatsinks on it.
I bet someone could photoshop some heatsinks on there.
#1 it uses two 6 pin power connectors for pcie, AGP uses the molex connectorscalchala said:i don't really think the card is authentic......it doesn't have any molex connectors on it, and why would the shim have the name of the card on it? It makes no sense.....
zeebs said:Let's get real here: if this thing isn't a fake, who would buy this piece of shit? Who wants a video card over half the size of a motherboard in their case messing up airflow and just plain being ugly.
Waste of silicon.
Sir-Fragalot said:No it doesn't. All the motherboard needs is an x16 PCI-E slot and that's all. Theres no magic to SLi motherboards. It can be done with any chipset with the appropriate number of PCI-E lanes. If the motherboard had to be "SLi ready" then the Gigabyte i915P SLi board wouldn't have been possible. Nor would the IWill DN800-SLi. Both of which are using Intel PCI-Express chipsets.
In fact due to the fact that the only announced P4 SLi board, the Gigabyte one can't actually be found anywhere this card would be the obvious choice for higher end gamers looking for SLi performance on their Pentium 4 machines.
Cebit starts today. If it is fake, we'll know soon since Asus is supposed to be introduced at Cebit.zeebs said:Let's get real here: if this thing isn't a fake,
ThomasE66 said:Not necessarily. If you have the slots it can be made to work. With a single card SLI solution, it's simply done at the driver level.
Lazn_Work said:I thought this too, but not quite: http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzEyLDI=
"We had to try another motherboard -- a motherboard that does not natively support SLI at all. The ABIT AA8 Duramax is an Intel 925x-based motherboard with a PCI-Express x16 slot. We installed the Gigabyte 3D1 on this motherboard to see what would happen.
Sadly, it wouldnt even POST with the video card installed. No initialization at all. Well, at least we tried"
==>Lazn
Wiseguy2001 said:
skinegibbs said:That kinda sucks though...its just a 6600 lol
ThomasE66 said:Heh. I can speak from experience that SLI'ed 6600 GT's rock pretty hard
skinegibbs said:That kinda sucks though...its just a 6600 lol