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ASUS Dual nvidia 6800's

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:03 am
by Apoptosis
How does having a couple nVIDIA 6800 cores on a single card sound to you? ASUS has done it and pictures are floating around the web this morning.

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HardSpell broke the story, but it's all in chinese so I made a rough translation of their page below.

Here is a what the text on HardSpell translates to:
China is researching and developing new cards with SLi technology, 6800 Ultra the double core, and new PCB's! At present this reveals the card has already been able to enter the internal test stage, and perhaps in the near future it will be able to push to the market.

We may see from the picture, two 6800Ultra core is interlocked by about lays aside on PCB, because if two cores parallel layings aside, the PCB width extremely will be considerable, but such result will be PCB highly greatly increases. Reveals the arrangement and list 6800Ultra which saves reveals the card to be same, uses four angles to surround the way, around each core all has 8 pieces to reveal saves, on the picture shown it does not save serial number, but a best guess would suggest the aggregate capacity which saves to be allowed to achieve 512MB. Because two cores with electric quantity big increase, therefore even if is PCI the Express connection, revealed the card or to arrange two 6Pin outside to meet the power supply slot, also was needs 4 power sources the 4Pin connections. Another the question which let us note is this funds reveals the card to use still was the ancient NV45 core, also was the bridge joint chip is sealed nearby Die the edition, sound queer was nVIDIA is also is primary supports PCIe version after NV48 GeForce 6800 only then foreign to announce the SLI technology, but unexpectedly in NV45 had this technical the integration, what was more interesting was the Chinese large research and development this card time definitely is in front of NV45 as well as NV48, Hua Shuo at very early time has started to study the card SLI technology?
Rough translation, but you get the idea now better than just looking at the images.

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:05 am
by FZ1
Nice!

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:44 pm
by infinitevalence
That thing is massive! i hope it does not require an sli mobo like the Gigabyte card does, that kinda deffets the purpose.

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:13 am
by gvblake22
I would like to see what the cooling setup looks like on that thing! One 6800Ultra heatsink is HUGE, let alone TWO of them!!! :shock:

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:12 pm
by Illuminati
I snagged this pic from HardOCP's news archive that shows the cooler on this massive card. (Don't worry, Kyle gave everyone permission to host his pics in his post.) I only took the thumbnail, so if you want the fullsize pic, go through hardocp's news archives...

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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:30 pm
by gvblake22
Thanks for the pic! That thing is... its just... H U G E ! ! ! :rolleyes:

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 5:34 pm
by Sovereign
That card won't fit in most PCs, it's sooooooo BIG that it is as tall as some mobos are long.

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 5:39 pm
by infinitevalence
belive it or not it will fit. Most pc's still adhere to the old PCI standard for full langth cards, from the looks of it the asus card is almost full langth.

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 7:56 pm
by -mogwai
yeah, that thing's a monster...

i wonder why it only has one fan on it... why wouldn't they go for 2?

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:13 pm
by BEan
Couldn't they make the card a little bit smaller. If they have an agp version avalible I would get it.

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:22 pm
by infinitevalence
they cant make it smaller because its 2 6800GT's on one card that means 2x core and 512mb of memory, that takes up a lot of space.

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 1:26 pm
by Apoptosis
Now, it seems Asus has managed to finish off its design of its Dual chip, Geforce 6800GT card and named it EN6800GT. It's in the last stage of testing and we expect to see this card launch at Computex. The card should be ready to rock and roll in last week of May
.

Looks like this card is done and ready to hit the market later this month.

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Many Thanks to HardSpell for publishing the first images of this card.

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:33 pm
by LVCapo
what really scares me is a hillbilly from Missouri trying to translate Chinese

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:35 pm
by LVCapo
Actually, this has been floating around for a couple of months, and so far, unfortunately, it doies take a special motherboard to use a card like this.
hopefully it will end up a s a norm for all boards and then we'll be done with SLI

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:58 pm
by -mogwai
that is one bigass monster of a graphics card....

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 4:13 pm
by Apoptosis
floating around a couple months? ASUS just got working samples this week and photos were shown today/yesterday of the actual working card. The original cards shown at Cebit 2005 didn't even work. THey were dummy cards to gain press.

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 4:20 pm
by LVCapo
they had pictures up over at the site that I will not mention more than a month ago....hillbilly....go work on your Chinese


Here iit is back in January over at Anandtech
AnandTech News: ASUS Responds to Gigabytes 3D1: Another Dual GPU Video Card
http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23649



the other site had their article about it up in febuary

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:22 pm
by gvblake22

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 7:07 pm
by Apoptosis
Once again today was the first showing of a working card like my above post mentioned :)