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Interesting new hardware..

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The evil empire (aka EVGA) are at it again with combo cards, this time a twin 460.

Evil twin 460

Hmmm where's my upgrade budget.

Quick specs as this card is massive

700 core, 1400 shaders, 3600 memory (effective) - now the scary stuff. It weighs 3Lbs is 11.5 inches long and needs 2 x 8pin connectors

NVM - Zink beat me to it.
 
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Who will be the first to cram 3 of these into a single box....

Come on, I know you want to.
 
So what is this, SLI on a card? Seen it before. Didn't figure it would beast out a 580 so much but I'll wait for a real review to settle that. Could be the small resolution they used.

Wonder if you could quad SLI with these like you could the 295's? That might actually be win then if the price is right. Quad sli 460's vs SLI 580's... Hmmm...
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Vaulter98c said:
So what is this, SLI on a card? Seen it before. Didn't figure it would beast out a 580 so much but I'll wait for a real review to settle that. Could be the small resolution they used.

Wonder if you could quad SLI with these like you could the 295's? That might actually be win then if the price is right. Quad sli 460's vs SLI 580's... Hmmm...
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yes you can run quad SLI with it. but quad SLI doesn't scale that well and the cards limited by the 1GB of ram. so SLI 580's would still beat it. the 1440x900 resolution EVGA used in their benchmark is a joke. thats like taking a super computer and playing tetris on it. put that thing at a legit resolution like 1920x1200 or 2560x1600 and the 1.5 gigs of ram on the gtx 580 will kill that card.
 
im tempted to put 4 of these in chuck. but according to moneky. i wont be able to becasue of the display port limitiation
 
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Currently you are NOT able to to run quad-sli on these cards.
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http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=901059
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seriously no quad SLI wtf is the point in the damn card then? it won't come any where near the GTX 580 except in EVGA's canned low resolution benchmark's let alone in nvidia surround and it sure as hell won't compete with a single HD6970 in eyefinity or single display high resolution..
 
no idea, once i get one in my hands i'd be glad to test for ya (i have access to some copies of XP, Vista, 7, and all the linux distro's, hell even to win 2000)
 
let me know im on vacation atm so my farm is turned off and when i get back. my MB replacment from newegg should be in so i have to swap out the MB.
 
lets hope i can get it while i have time :D otherwise just WIn 7 will be going on to get the damed thing folding till i have time to fiddle around with it

board i'm getting is the Sabertooth btw ;)
 
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im tempted to put 4 of these in chuck. but according to moneky. i wont be able to becasue of the display port limitiation
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I'm not convinced that it won't work. I think the display port talk was related to trying to figure out why the GTX 295 wouldn't work in Vista and 7 like they do in XP. I think a lot of it was NVIDIA making excuses, because I spent a lot of time on the NVIDIA forums going back and forth about this, and once they finally rewrote their drivers, I got three 295s (six GPUs) working in Win7 with no problem (no SLI, dummy plug, extending desktop, or other nonsense). The rumor was that they wanted to be able to sell their high-profit-margin Tesla cards without having lower-priced graphics cards be able to do the same work.

If the price is right on these cards, I'll probably buy at least one. I'll be interested to see the power usage under load compared to a GTX 295.

edit: The new NVIDIA drivers even improved things on XP. I was able to fold on 8 GPUs without extending the desktop.
 
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