HOLY ****!!! 1gb Nvidia 7950!

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http://www.bfgtech.com/7950Gx2_1G_PCIX.html

WOW!!!!

Specs:

Dual NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2
PCI Express®
Memory 1GB GDDR3
Core Clock 500MHz
Memory Clock 600 MHz
RAMDAC Dual 400MHz
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and lower, OpenGL® 2.0 and lower for Microsoft Windows®
Connectors 2 Dual-Link DVI-I, HDTV
2200 million vertices/sec.
76.8GB/second memory bandwidth

[CatPawn]

Re: HOLY SH!T!!! 1gb Nvidia 7950!

:shock:

[cloakster]

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OMFG i never thought that they would come out with one this soon. WOW! that would be amazing performance

[LoD]

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It's an interesting concept, but a little bit overkill. I'm waiting for multicore graphics cards, and am going to skip the whole multi card generation.

The GX2 can only address 512MB of its ram, and Nvidia won't even sanction official quad SLI support for users, only DellAlienware, Voodoo, Falcon will be able to officially support Quad SLI, which is a snub at the enthusiast community.

But then again for $600-$700 not many people will be buying one or two of these.



EDIT: For those that just like to cream their pants over specs... umm yeah... the GX2 is the same as a 7900GT 512MB SLI package, on one "stick" it's nothing we haven't already seen before.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/geforce-7950-gx2/

It's not that impressive, frankly I place this on the same level of Intel's initial Dualcore solutions, nothing more than a clever hack, and grossly inefficient.

[knghtwhosaysni]

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OMFG i never thought that they would come out with one this soon. WOW! that would be amazing performance

According to the reviews I've seen so far, it performs right about at the same level as 2 7900gt's in SLI. Quad-SLI works like poo though

[csidle]

Re: HOLY SH!T!!! 1gb Nvidia 7950!

It's an interesting concept, but a little bit overkill. I'm waiting for multicore graphics cards, and am going to skip the whole multi card generation.

The GX2 can only address 512MB of its ram, and Nvidia won't even sanction official quad SLI support for users, only DellAlienware, Voodoo, Falcon will be able to officially support Quad SLI, which is a snub at the enthusiast community.

But then again for $600-$700 not many people will be buying one or two of these.



EDIT: For those that just like to cream their pants over specs... umm yeah... the GX2 is the same as a 7900GT 512MB SLI package, on one "stick" it's nothing we haven't already seen before.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/geforce-7950-gx2/

It's not that impressive, frankly I place this on the same level of Intel's initial Dualcore solutions, nothing more than a clever hack, and grossly inefficient.

I agree, I think buying something like this is overkill. Especially considering that anything above 7800GT can run all games released at this point on high.

[jayhigh]

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that is like a double e-penis in your system..

[knghtwhosaysni]

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I agree, I think buying something like this is overkill. Especially considering that anything above 7800GT can run all games released at this point on high.

I think it would be nice for the peeps with 30" monitors, but other than that... it's probably overkill :)

[LoD]

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Well i'm not arguing exclusively on the overkill point. I believe SLI is generally overkill as well, but what diswades me from buying into this stuff is the ineficiencies of the design, and the general issues that crop up.

I applaud nvidia for finally releasing an HDCP compatible card, and finally opening up SLI to non nvidia chipsets, but thats about all I like of this "video card" if you can call it a single card.

It's two 7900's slapped together, and half the ram is unaddressable, multimonitor use is disabled in SLI mode, and much like Intel's current dualcore chips, its two single core designs forced into one ugly package. The increase from one core to another is only in the 30-50% range, instead of the 90%+ that one would theoretically hope for.

Once GPU's catch up to CPU's will this stuff be a real value. Once a multicore GPU can share one pool of ram, and communicate as a single unit instead of using the PCIe bus, and SLI bridge, will this technology be truely impressive.

/end rant

[Laike]

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... over kill is never a bad thing, but anyone that rich to afford that stuff really needs better things to do with their money... like bf2.... never mind, my point is moot

[IndianScout]

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I bet if I put 2 of these in my box when I fire up the computer the whole neighborhood goes dark from a brown out...

nice cards tho

[CatPawn]

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I bet if I put 2 of these in my box when I fire up the computer the whole neighborhood goes dark from a brown out...

so does that mean you may need a special power line direct to a nuclear power station to run it properly? :laugh:

[fajitasforme]

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quad SLI with something like this is stupid.its not even sactioned by NVIDIA and for a good reason.not only is it overkill,theres not a processor out there that will give u much better performance over one.it prbly has more problems than perks

[IndianScout]

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new AMD Quad, now that would rock...

[1Bravo]

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This is the only part I don't like DirectX® 9.0

I'm saving my coins to get a DirectX® 10.0 compatible card when they are available. So far my cheapo 7800GT is serving darn well in every game.

What's the point of wasting money on DX9 cards when DX10 is around the corner IMO