Extreme Graphics card! ( A must see)

[Intelman07]

Have a Look at this baby! Here

This board, made by CAE combines four Radeon 8500 GPUs onto a single PCI board. It's designed for workstation markets to accelerate complex rendering tasks. A version based on the 9700 will be available this fall.

 

[nick1985]

holy SH!T

 

[Intelman07]

Wonder what the 9700 version looks like!

 

[Malladine]

Wow, nice. Wonder how much that costs.

 

[Tetsuo]

i wonder if it works

 

[ProviaFan]

I wonder how much power the R300-based version will consume.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Extreme repost.

I think someone had this up in GH or OT awhile back. There's also a 32-processor (yes, 32) version in the works for hardcore CAD/CAM/special effects rendering.

- M4H

 

[Badash7]

It's probably from these guys http://www.es.com/products/image+generators/index.asp

 

[Intelman07]

Actually its from these guys http://www.cae.com/en/newsroom/shtml/civil_05142002_ref009.shtml

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Intelman07
Wonder what the 9700 version looks like!

Don't know....but I bet the FX still has a louder frickin fan.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: Intelman07
Wonder what the 9700 version looks like!

Don't know....but I bet the FX still has a louder frickin fan.

Lol, I bet your right

How much does that cost? Damn, that thing must use a ton of AGP bandwidth. I wonder if its on AGP 8x, probably. If it isn't, lol it'll be 4x and being limited there, I bet there won't be that much improvement. Hehe

 

[technician]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaHow much does that cost? Damn, that thing must use a ton of AGP bandwidth. I wonder if its on AGP 8x, probably. If it isn't, lol it'll be 4x and being limited there, I bet there won't be that much improvement. Hehe

I imagine it's on a custom bus. If you're going to go custom (32 GPUs!), might as well go the whole way.

Man, I wonder how the heck you could even use that amount of power. Maybe in CG movies I guess, but...wow.

 

[Marshallj]

This brings up a good question: Why don't video card makers make SLI versions of cards anymore? When the Voodoo2 came out, it was the fastest thing out there, and running 2 of them in SLI mode made it even faster. With the price of older chipsets dropping, you'd think it would be economically advantageous to use 2 slower chips instead of 1 faster, more expensive one.

If you look at the benchmarks, you end up paying 2-3x as much for a brand new card containing a new chipset that delivers about 40% more performance. Surely you could use 2 old chipsets to deliver that level of performance for a much reduced price.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Marshallj
This brings up a good question: Why don't video card makers make SLI versions of cards anymore? When the Voodoo2 came out, it was the fastest thing out there, and running 2 of them in SLI mode made it even faster. With the price of older chipsets dropping, you'd think it would be economically advantageous to use 2 slower chips instead of 1 faster, more expensive one.

If you look at the benchmarks, you end up paying 2-3x as much for a brand new card containing a new chipset that delivers about 40% more performance. Surely you could use 2 old chipsets to deliver that level of performance for a much reduced price.

Might have something to do with AGP.

 

[EdipisReks]

Originally posted by: Marshallj
If you look at the benchmarks, you end up paying 2-3x as much for a brand new card containing a new chipset that delivers about 40% more performance. Surely you could use 2 old chipsets to deliver that level of performance for a much reduced price.

which is exactly why nobody does this. a company isn't going to destroy the market for top of the line chips by selling cheaper sli solutions.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Intelman07
Have a Look at this baby! Here

This board, made by CAE combines four Radeon 8500 GPUs onto a single PCI board. It's designed for workstation markets to accelerate complex rendering tasks. A version based on the 9700 will be available this fall.

:disgust:
It is a PCI card.

 

[Schadenfroh]

i bet when you turn that sucker on, all the lights in your house suddenly grow dimm as the power drain begins. Quantum3d used to make crazy cards like this, but they were 3dfx and now nvidia. i wonder what they are up to now adays. I think they bought SLI from 3dfx right as they went under. So i guess there is nothing stoping quantum3d from making a card with 4 geforce4 mxs. I better just DREAM ON

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Marshallj
This brings up a good question: Why don't video card makers make SLI versions of cards anymore? When the Voodoo2 came out, it was the fastest thing out there, and running 2 of them in SLI mode made it even faster. With the price of older chipsets dropping, you'd think it would be economically advantageous to use 2 slower chips instead of 1 faster, more expensive one.

If you look at the benchmarks, you end up paying 2-3x as much for a brand new card containing a new chipset that delivers about 40% more performance. Surely you could use 2 old chipsets to deliver that level of performance for a much reduced price.

I wasn't into hardware at the time of those cards but if they did something like that, I'd be a very very happy camper. I'd just go out and buy two Radeon 9200 Pros or two 9500 Pros depending on money. Those things would outdo a 9800 Pro and I'd be good to go. By the way, what does SLI stand for?

 

[ArtemisE]

that is awesome, but they need *really* good fans for that, I guess.

*fire alarm

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga

Originally posted by: Marshallj
what does SLI stand for?

Scan Line Interleve

SLI breaks the screen up for the GPUs and each chip renders every other line. one chip has odd lines, the other has even. in theory this would double the performance of that card.

 

[firemoth12]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: Intelman07
Have a Look at this baby! Here

This board, made by CAE combines four Radeon 8500 GPUs onto a single PCI board. It's designed for workstation markets to accelerate complex rendering tasks. A version based on the 9700 will be available this fall.

:disgust:
It is a PCI card.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: Intelman07
Have a Look at this baby! Here

This board, made by CAE combines four Radeon 8500 GPUs onto a single PCI board. It's designed for workstation markets to accelerate complex rendering tasks. A version based on the 9700 will be available this fall.

:disgust:
It is a PCI card.

And if you couldn't tell from looking at the picture that it was a PCI card...

...combines four Radeon 8500 GPUs onto a single PCI board...

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: Intelman07
Have a Look at this baby! Here

This board, made by CAE combines four Radeon 8500 GPUs onto a single PCI board. It's designed for workstation markets to accelerate complex rendering tasks. A version based on the 9700 will be available this fall.

:disgust:
It is a PCI card.

pci-66 or some other fast tech they use in the workstation market i imagine.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Yes, it could very well be for a 64 bit 66MHz PCI bus...

 

[Ravenit]

Do you think it comes with the standard 128mb of on board ram.
mmmmm