Crazy crazy video card - of course it's Radeon based.

[Thor86]

simFUSION 6000q System GraphicBoard

 

[jiffylube1024]

Christ almighty!!! Where are the benchmarks!? With 4 Radeon 9700 Pro GPU's on there, it's gotta be quite the performer!

 

[modedepe]

Damn, that is crazy. It'd be interesting if they actually ever mass produced one of these multi gpu setups.

 

[Corporate Thug]

1. good luck fitting it in a case
2. photchopped?

 

[clicknext]

Originally posted by: modedepe
Damn, that is crazy. It'd be interesting if they actually ever mass produced one of these multi gpu setups.

Even if such a thing could work well, it wouldn't be practical both in cost and to use. Bet its a killer on power consumption.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

that thing is meant for military simulations and things like that. click the link on the bottom of the review.

makes me miss my quantum3d obsidian card...


JBLaze

 

[nboy22]

OMG LOL LOOK OUT EVERYONE IT'S ONE OF THOSE ISA CARDS!!! lmao j/k we work with old computers in my comp technology class, and that reminds me of this one ISA card that's like 1 foot long, so crazy, i don't know who would want to put it in their case

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: shady06
1. good luck fitting it in a case

Honestly, I think that is the least of anyone's worries. This card probably costs $5,000 or something. It's even 2 cards in one - a PCI card hooked up to an AGP card.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

HOLY CRAP! lol that thing is one huge..dual layer..hunk of something. Besides wouldn't the bandwidth be limited due to the pci part of it?

 

[Keysplayr]

I think I can cram that into my Shuttle XPC..

 

[clicknext]

I think that'd fit in mine if I took out the floppy cage.

 

[wicktron]

Originally posted by: shady06
1. good luck fitting it in a case
2. photchopped?

Doubt its Photochopped because it's already been confirmed that the R300/R350 core are capable of multiple GPU operation.

 

[chsh1ca]

Dang, now who wouldn't wanna see some benchies on that sucker?

HINT HINT EDITORS!

I wonder if they'd be willing to sample it to Anandtech for a video review like that. That'd be awesome.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: shady06
2. photchopped?

Whenever a existing chipset is turned into a multi chip card, everyone allways asumes a photochop. Theres not a chance in hell that that pics photochopped.
I wanna see a more detailed view of the 3rd and 4th chips that are between the two PCBs and what the cooling on them are. And why in hell use coolers for GF4s on a R300!!!.
Can you imagine the power that it`d need. A 9700pro on its own consumes 54W. x4 thats 216W of power for just the video card!!!

 

[Doh!]

Originally posted by: BoomAM

Can you imagine the power that it`d need. A 9700pro on its own consumes 54W. x4 thats 216W of power for just the video card!!!

The user manual says a typical power req. for the system w/ the video card is 300 watts while the maximum is 1150 watts.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: Doh!
The user manual says a typical power req. for the system w/ the video card is 300 watts while the maximum is 1150 watts.

300-1150Ws for a video card!!! OMG. You`d have to have an industrial PSU just for the video card, or a way to run it off the mains.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: BoomAM

Originally posted by: Doh!
The user manual says a typical power req. for the system w/ the video card is 300 watts while the maximum is 1150 watts.

300-1150Ws for a video card!!! OMG. You`d have to have an industrial PSU just for the video card, or a way to run it off the mains.

Yeah, it would definately be smart to have 2 PSU's with that bad boy - one for just the motherboard/+12V connection and the other for everything else.

 

[vshah]

I think most gpus since the gf2 and radeon have hardware support for Multiple GPU operation, but neither nvidia or ati (other than the maxx) has tried it because of the complications involved, such as needing double the memory etc.
Wonder how volari will do....

-Vivan

 

[zephyrprime]

It's not photochopped. There's a small and lucrative market for these sorts of things in the military and in pilot flight sims.