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New Asus dual 6600GT VIVO

So Gigabyte and ASUS have done this now with NV6600GT cores.
I read in the Gigabyte articles that it was not possible to use 2 of these cards.

I expect ATI will be doing this too.

Both companies will be using that TurboCache deal on low end PCI-E cards also.
 
"On card´s PCB there´s also 6-pin power connector, 256MB of 256-bit 1.6ns GDDR3 memory from Samsung similar to that installed on GV-3D1 (8 x K4J55323QF-GC16 chips)."

Surely they don't mean a 256 bit memory bus, do they?
 
Yeah, the core only supports 128bit as far as I know. They must be splitting it or something, or it's just 2 128bit busses spun with marketspeak.
 
I would tend to agree, probably marketing math. Maybe Rollo could come up with a a little of that "insider" news he comes across once in a while and confirm that the 6600 core is limited to 128 memory bus. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: TStep
I would tend to agree, probably marketing math. Maybe Rollo could come up with a a little of that "insider" news he comes across once in a while and confirm that the 6600 core is limited to 128 memory bus. 🙂
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The Gigabyte card is (see the reviews on it); I assume the ASUS one is as well. If NVIDIA could do this with their cores (combine two over SLI to get twice the effective bandwidth), then regular SLI configurations would effectively have double the bandwidth (which they do not).
 
It will be stupid expensive for what it is knowing Asus vid card pricing.
 
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
It will be stupid expensive for what it is knowing Asus vid card pricing.
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What what what? The V9999 GE isn't a bargain at $399.99????? 😉

AFAIK the 128 bit bus is all 6600GTs have, I bet the article is mistaken and they're referring to 128X2 for memory bandwidth. Wasn't that the deal with the Gigabyte's advertising?
 
Originally posted by: Rollo
AFAIK the 128 bit bus is all 6600GTs have, I bet the article is mistaken and they're referring to 128X2 for memory bandwidth.
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wasn't there a 4x2=8 pipeline fiasco like that?
 
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