9800MAXX. You`ve gotta see this....(Dual 9800s on one board, not a hoax), and nV36/38 pictures

[BoomAM]

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hwupgrade.it%2Farticoli%2F905%2Findex.html&langpair=it%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

OMFG.

##EDIT##
nV36 & nV38 pictures.
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=517

 

[kylebisme]

ya, too bad it doesn't work.

 

[BoomAM]

What the link or the card.
But whoa.
I mean....its like....OMFG.
If they managed to get it working that would be one hell of a card.

 

[Corporate Thug]

wtf? i smell photochop


edit: those memory modules look waaaaaaay to small

 

[BoomAM]

Thats what i initially though, but upon closer inspection, its real.

 

Who wrote the article, Yoda?

GM

EDIT: The mem chips look so small because the card is enormous...

 

[Insomniak]

Looks like two cores, but where's the RAM for the second one? lol. If you're gonna double up, double the hell UP!

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: shady06
wtf? i smell photochop


edit: those memory modules look waaaaaaay to small

BGA RAM chips usually are small. Plus, I don't usually see edited/spliced images that take perspective correction and lighting changes into account. Those GPU heatsinks are at different angles - not just duplicated.

Is that some kind of AIW board though? There's what looks like CD-audio type connectors on that board; is that Firewire and an SPDIF connector on the back too? And the LED display? What's that for?
Hopefully we'll hear more about this soon, assuming that it is in fact a true product.

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Looks like two cores, but where's the RAM for the second one? lol. If you're gonna double up, double the hell UP!

Could be on the back of the board.

 

[Pete]

Probably on the back, but I'm no engineer.

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
What the link or the card.
But whoa.
I mean....its like....OMFG.
If they managed to get it working that would be one hell of a card.

ya links fine but the card doesnt work. if it did it would be on my shoping list though.

 

[Corporate Thug]

ignore

 

[SectorZero]

A Rad 9800Pro MAXX? But will it work in Win2K/XP?

Eh?

lol

Been itching to reinstall win98 again.

 

[billyjak]

Look at this blown up picture Here
It's a fake,click on the sixth page

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: billyjak
Look at this blown up picture Here
It's a fake,click on the sixth page

Damn I was getting my hopes up

The nvidia pics are real though, right?

 

[SunnyD]

It's not a fake. It's an engineering prototype and the board doesn't work. It's physically impossible to design it such. The MAXX support has been in every ATi chip since the Rage Fury. Sapphire designed the board. Mark my words, it does exist.

 

[Corporate Thug]

the nvidia cards look FUGLY

 

[Rage187]

that 2 foot long saphire isnt too pretty either.

 

[Tab]

I wonder if the new nVidia cards will actually be worth while..

 

[titanmiller]

I can assure you all that the Ati card is real, every Ati card since the Rage Fury can support multiple chips working in parallel (as stated above). Actually If I remember correctly up to 256 chips can be used together, but of course that would be very expensive and only used for rendering full resolution movies.

 

[Johnbear007]

sweet. So why doesnt it work? I wonder how much of a benefit it would give..

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Rage187
that 2 foot long saphire isnt too pretty either.

The 2 foot long Sapphire card has 2 GPU cores on it. What do you expect? How many GPU's do those fugly nvidia cards have?

Btw, I actually like the way the nvidia cards look. And, assuming nVidia got the design right this time with a quiet fan, they could have a good card on their hands. Too bad it will still have the same problems inherent to all NV3x cards, though...

 

[Schadenfroh]

lol, you guys are arguing over the looks of a video card

 

[PCboy]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
lol, you guys are arguing over the looks of a video card

 

[Corporate Thug]

i bet the most functional and yet ugliest case in the world wont sell to well

 

[BFG10K]

I suspect the MAXX is a fake especially since ATi have repeatedly said that they have no plans to go dual-chip anytime soon.