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the dual gpu cards...

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Jason711

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are pointless.... they are twice as much and you cannot use them in conjuction with another dual gpu card.

getting two regular cards makes more sense...

i just do not understand the point.... unless, perhaps..

the only way i can see a purpose is if they are sold for a board or with a board that has only a single 16x slot.

but with a board (like gigabytes) that has two 16x slots? come on! the price is outrageous and you do not get anything out of the ordinary.. i wouldnt even brag that i had that card!
 
u got the cheaper and easier then getting two seperate cards right...outperforming? I dont think so
 
Er, well some motherboards WILL have dual 16x slots, so, you CAN run two dual GPU cards together.
 
EQTakeOffense said:
Er, well some motherboards WILL have dual 16x slots, so, you CAN run two dual GPU cards together.
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No you can't. SLI is already being utilized. It's just that it is being used over a single card instead of two.
 
I dunno, I currently have an agp 6800u, so If I wanted SLI I'd have to buy two pci-e cards anyway, I see no downside to having a single dual GPU card instead, unless it ended up way more expensive, which I doubt, because then there'd be no reason for it to exist at all.

I don't think SLI is set up to address more than 2 gpus, AFAIK the actual SLI controlling/synchronising bit is part of the GPU itself, and the mobo just facilitates it by moving the data to the right place, but I don't know if the GPU is capable of talking to more than one counterpart simultaneously.

But it's entirely possible/likely that my understanding of the nuts and bolts of how the GPUs, drivers and mobo interact to make the magic happen is way off and you could stick two of those mothers in one system, in which case: :eek:

I don't quite get why it needs two full sets of RAM though (at least that's waht it looks like), in SLI mode it can only use one, and if you set it to single-mode it still only uses one, surely it can't have been that hard to just stick a second GPU on for SLI purposes, rather than bolt two entire cards together (cheaper too).
 
it will always be more expensive...

the single gpu cards will drop below msrp much sooner than those POS's ever will.
 
I think its for Motherboards who dont have 2x PCIe slots....


You know there is mobos out there that only have 1xPCIe slot for graphics.. what if they want to SLI? buy a new mobo? No... you can get the Dual GPU (sli) card instead
 
I'm still really confused how these are going to fit in most cases. They are simply to long to fit in any of my cases and I dont to buy some super long case for one of these. Its a total waste to me, I think its a bad sign really. Its not an innovation to slap these two cards together, its just a marketing gimmic, I guess the barrel's starting to run dry in the graphics card industry as far as real advanments go.
 
Actually, they don't work in boards with a single PCIe slot. nVidia wrote its drivers so that SLI would only work with an SLI-capable chipset. No manufacturer would make an SLI motherboard with only one PEG slot; it's a waste of money.
 
Jason711 said:
it will always be more expensive...

the single gpu cards will drop below msrp much sooner than those POS's ever will.
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I'm not prepared to dump on this guy yet, my experience with Asus products thus far has been positive, and their general reputation is pretty good.

This may be a mere marketing gimmick, and I certainly wouldn't just buy one on spec or "just to have one", but fuck it, if it works well and it winds up at a reasonable price, why not?

Time will tell.
 
OK guys, lets get our heads out of the high tech ass for a minute and look at this practicly!
Granted the duel core cards don't have quite the performance of two separate cards, BUT they don't cost as much either.
now that means that Mr "Joe shit the rag man" consumer out there can get better performance than a single core 6800UL card without having to spend between $900 t0 $1000 on a pair of them !
 
doesnt the dual 6600gts have a one slot cooling?

if so, wouldnt it fit in a shuttle?
 
MartinX said:
I don't quite get why it needs two full sets of RAM though (at least that's waht it looks like), in SLI mode it can only use one, and if you set it to single-mode it still only uses one, surely it can't have been that hard to just stick a second GPU on for SLI purposes, rather than bolt two entire cards together (cheaper too).
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It looks like it's just two cards crammed into one. Not really an efficient dual core card. If it really was meant for single slot, then you wouldn't need something as redundant as having two sets of ram with the same content. Maybe the next generation of dualcores would be made from the ground up.
 
Hate_Bot said:
doesnt the dual 6600gts have a one slot cooling?

if so, wouldnt it fit in a shuttle?
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I woudl say no simple because your never going to find a SLI shuttle board. While its a single slot card, you still need an SLI motherboard, which means two slots....i dont think you will ever see an SLI shuttle mobo, there just isnt enough space
 
mavalpha said:
Actually, they don't work in boards with a single PCIe slot. nVidia wrote its drivers so that SLI would only work with an SLI-capable chipset. No manufacturer would make an SLI motherboard with only one PEG slot; it's a waste of money.
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Shuttle would, because, the nF4 Ultra is basically SLI capable, but has to be modded. So it would be feasible just to put an SLI chipset on there since the Ultra and SLI chipsets are almost physically the same.
 
robberbaron said:
Shuttle would, because, the nF4 Ultra is basically SLI capable, but has to be modded. So it would be feasible just to put an SLI chipset on there since the Ultra and SLI chipsets are almost physically the same.
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Even with the mod, you have to use old drivers for it to work. New nvidia drivers dont allow SLI on the ultra chipset ever if you perform a hardware mod. Even then, these dual GPU supposidly only work on certain boards. Looking at say the gigabyte dual 6600GT, sure it has been tested to work on other boards, but youstill ahve to pay the $600 price tag for the card AND the board. Bit of a ripoff IMO when you coudl just get a single PCIE card thats just as good. That dual 6800U woudltn fit in a shuttle anyways, just look at the picks. It extens alteast an inch past a regualr ATX board.

So, it owuld just be totally pointless to even try to get one of these cards in a shuttle. Get a single 6800GT PCIE or ATI X800XL/XT, it would end up being cheaper and just as good if not better...and you would have to mod anything.
 
MartinX said:
I'm not prepared to dump on this guy yet, my experience with Asus products thus far has been positive, and their general reputation is pretty good.

This may be a mere marketing gimmick, and I certainly wouldn't just buy one on spec or "just to have one", but fuck it, if it works well and it winds up at a reasonable price, why not?

Time will tell.
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i never questioned the integrity of ASUS... sure they make decent products. their prices on the other hand tend to be too high.

i just really do not see these taking off at all.
 
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